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 ...

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 ...

Ignatius was born in Loyola in 1491, the youngest of 13 children. His mother died soon after he was born and he was nursed by the wife of the local blacksmith.

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 church's history—it's ...

He chose Ignatius of Loyola. Jessica Pipes, a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College, writes from Wildwood, Missouri. This article originally appeared July 31, 2018, at the Register.

St. Francis Xavier, St. Ignatius of Loyola and Blessed Peter Faber are shown in an icon. Pope Francis is expected to issue a decree declaring one of his favorite Jesuits, Blessed Peter Faber, a saint.

Behind a simple white exterior, vibrant panels of stained glass gracefully enclose the modest yet elegant wooden framework of Saint Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church. But it is not the ...

Though we know him as Ignatius, his true Basque name was Iñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola. To be born into a noble Basque family in what is today northeastern Spain meant the life of a warrior.

National Catholic Register, Jul 31, 2024 / 04:00 am. When Ignatius of Loyola found himself bedridden with a shattered leg, all of his big dreams and plans were history.