14 Apr

In 2008, Pope Benedict's addresses to Jesuit audiences have strongly echoed the thinking of twentieth century Catholic philosopher Bernard Lonergan, suggests Gerald Whelan SJ. Who was this influential man, and why is his work so important and relevant to Jesuits today?This article was originally published in La Civilta Cattolica, 6th September 2008. It was reposted on Thinking Faith in November 2014. Bernard Lonergan SJ was born in December 2004....

13 Apr

From time to time, over the next few months, as part of the "Our Culture" section, igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits. Poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will appear as well as poems by contemporary Jesuits. Today's poem is by John D. O'Brien, SJ, a Jesuit scholastic studying theology at Regis College, Toronto....

09 Apr

The dews at Richmond's Eastern Catholic Church parking lot that crested on the green blades of grass were still glistening. They were quite content to bask in the warm sun that embraced them on a Saturday morning last September 6 2014. Quietly. Little did they know that their somewhat unknown church was about to open its doors to the second Jesuit Alumni Group's retreat for the Ignatian community to celebrate in one faith, in one love and in one God....

07 Apr

I see cura personalis as our attempt to imitate the intensely personal, specific, wild and oceanic love which God has for each human being, a love so unimaginably great that he joins himself eternally to us as one of us and so persisting that he continues in the Eucharist to give food to our body and spirit and to intoxicate us with his love, his cura personalis....

06 Apr

This week's poem, by Greg Kennedy, SJ, is all about a little girl named Sophie and her encounter with heaven....

05 Apr

One problem we encounter in college is that students who are no longer made to go to church stop going. I think the problem is not that we've failed to enforce the value of church: the problem is that we've failed to give our children the power of choice. One of the best things to teach about church is that it is an option we are all free to accept or reject. "No" is a real option. And it is better that children encounter it sooner rather than later....

04 Apr

When St. Ignatius invites us to pray with the Resurrection of the Lord, he invites us to consider the office of consoler that Christ our Lord exercises, and compare it with the way in which friends are wont to console each other." The office of consoler! I've always liked that phrase. It sums up so much about the ways in which we could be so present to one another, if we shared our own consolation with those around us."...

31 Mar

A relatively new aberration is gaining strength. It has resulted in a confusion between popular opinion and "sense of the faithful" (sensum fidelium) on matters of faith. Extensive reporting on the discussions that took place last autumn during the first session of the Synod on the Family seemed to foster the notion that something could now be regarded as true and followed in the Chrch because it was accepted by a majority of the Synod on the Family then in session. And apart from any synod, it could be held as approved if now a majority of members in the Church followed such a belief....

30 Mar

As we begin the Holy Week Triduum - Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday - Greg Kennedy, SJ, offers us this poem....

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