“You can't empathize with somebody else if you’re not looking at them in a human way,” says Mahmood Watkins. “You can't empathize with people who’ve been incarcerated, or are incarcerated, if you’re not looking at them as human beings.”

Shannon K. Evans, a writer and mother of five, chronicles moments of grace in her daily life.

This Lent, use Ignatian spirituality to breathe new insight into these sacred rituals. Learn about Lent and about Ignatian spirituality through the lived experiences of fellow practitioners.

It is hard to describe the disgust I felt at the 13 executions that were recently carried out by the U.S. federal government.

Christopher Smith, SJ, shares the story of how his great-grandmother forgave her husband's killers and started a petition to grant clemency to the men who murdered him.

The growing Covid-19 crisis facing Africa will require more extensive levels of international cooperation, coordination, compromise and care than there is now.

Nearly 11 million undocumented people living in the U.S. could be granted a path to citizenship under new legislation.

Ordinarily this retreat in everyday life would take place in person. But this year the retreats and spiritual direction are taking place via Zoom, and I attend them from my office, which is also my closet. My hour of daily prayer takes place not during the peaceful morning lull when my children are at school, but right in their presence, since they are learning at home.

We asked calligrapher and artist Erica Tighe Campbell to illustrate the Society of Jesus' four Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAP), which will guide the Society's mission from 2019-2029: showing the way to God through the Spiritual Exercises and discernment; walking with the excluded; journeying with youth; and caring for our common home. Here Tighe Campbell reflects on how she approached the project.

In a report submission to the UN, the Jesuit Migration Network documented how governments across the Americas have blocked migrants’ access to international protection and forced them back into danger through policies like the Migrant Protection Protocols, Title 42 expulsions and increased militarization at U.S. borders.

Are you Catholic, or from another tradition, or even atheist or agnostic? Join us for a webinar with best-selling author James Martin, SJ, who will discuss his new book, Learning to Pray: A Guide for Everyone.

Spirit & Verse is a monthly column of original poem-prayers composed by Cameron Bellm, a Seattle-based writer and mother of two whose “Prayer for a Pandemic” went viral, bringing solace and comfort to many struggling during COVID-19.