What fun it must be to be a multi-billionaire! You can pretty much buy anything or do anything you want. Like Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, net worth $25.2 billion and the world's 19th richest person. He just bought the Washington Post, one of America's most respected newspapers, for $250 million out of his own pocket, less than one per cent of his net worth....
Continuing our series of poems by Jesuits, here is one by Philip Chircop, SJ which was inspired upon reading Greg Kennedy's poem on Mary....
It's the largest retailer in the world, the world's third-largest public company with more than 11,000 stores and 2.2 million employees worldwide, and it's not unionized. For the labour union movement, Walmart is the Holy Grail....
Monday, Aug 5, 2013 (7TH DAY) We began with a contemplative prayer led by French Belgium delegates, orienting us in our 3rd stage of the Assembly: looking to the future and the frontiers for apostolic mission....
To speak about the environment and ecology is to speak about a great deal! These are four inter-related Key Words: environment, ecology, economy and ecumenical....
Pope Francis recently spoke to a large gathering of seminarians and novices in Rome. As with many of his public appearances since his election last March, Francis displayed an energy and youthfulness that belied his age. For the novices to whom he spoke, the Pope was quite adamant in suggesting that a person of the church must see him or herself as a joyful sharer of the Gospel; a beacon of light for the world....
When it comes to the Christian notion of the "end times" we can often think in this way. Why worry about the Earth, when we're all trying to get into heaven? Why worry about nature when it is the salvation of the person that we seek? Or more explicitly, why worry about the salvation of the body, when it is the soul that is all important?...
just finished an 8-day retreat with other Jesuits and some colleagues at the Manresa Jesuit Spiritual Renewal Centre in Pickering, Ontario. It was a silent retreat, as are all such retreats. Silence is a strange thing. It's something that we both resist and crave....
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....
From our Roots to the Frontiers is the theme of the 16th World Assembly of CLC-CVX held in Beirut, Lebanon from July 29 to August 9, 2013. Charlie Pottie, SJ sends this second write up on the Assembly to igNation....
