In 1522 Ignatius became a pilgrim, giving away all his clothes and possessions to the poor and devoting himself to prayer and contemplation. A 17th-century statue of St. Ignatius of Loyola by Spanish ...

Editor's note: This essay is adapted from Christopher M. Bellitto's Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue with permission from Georgetown University Press. Some people are born humble. Others ...

Editor's Note: This is excerpted from The Spiritual Work of Racial Justice: A Month of Meditations with Ignatius of Loyola (Anamchara Books, 2021). Used with permission. When religious historians tell ...

The family and friends of the young Inigo would not have predicted he would become one of the most influential saints in the history of Christianity. Yet that is who St. Ignatius Loyola became. It was ...

As the Feast Day of St. Ignatius of Loyola approaches, I am reminded of one of my favorite theologians, Karl Rahner, S.J., who credited Ignatius, the founder of his Order, for giving him…well, pretty ...

Decision-making is a complex process. As individuals, working through our daily lives, we often take a number of shortcuts that may not always serve us well. For example, we make impulsive decisions ...

Recently, I finished writing a chapter on Ignatius of Loyola for a forthcoming book that focuses on the importance of the saints in the context of the Catholic Church in crisis. (The book is edited by ...

"Soul of Christ, make me holy." So says the first line of a prayer that Ignatius of Loyola recommends to those who take up his Spiritual Exercises, one of the most influential devotional books in the ...

Join a community of pilgrims on the Ignatian journey to find God in all things. Follow the footsteps of Ignatius from his years as a young page in Arevalo, Spain to his final days as Superior General ...

Ignatius of Loyola as a young soldier. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), more precisely Don Iñigo de Oñaz y Loyola, the youngest son of a Basque nobleman, was born in the Castle of Loyola, in the province ...

A picture of St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), the founder of the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits, who became the society's first superior general in 1541. (Photo: Goergetown) When a young ...