June 2022 Connections

In May 2021, Jesuit institutions, parishes and organizations across the world began a 14-month celebration of the Ignatian Year: the 500th anniversary of St. Ignatius Loyola’s conversion. In this month’s […]

When Iñigo Lopez de Oñaz y Loyola was struck by a cannonball on May 20, 1521, it set into motion a transformation from a life of vanity to a life […]

As the Ignatian Year was beginning last summer, Paola Pascual-Ferrá, Ph.D. knew that she wanted to mark this special celebration in some way. She had participated in the Spiritual Exercises […]

The story of St. Ignatius Loyola’s conversion from soldier to saint begins with a moment, and not a particularly quiet one. St. Ignatius was wounded gravely on the battlefield in […]

Creighton University is capping off the Ignatian Year by undergoing a university-wide self-study of its efforts to develop leaders in the tradition inspired by St. Ignatius Loyola. At its root, […]

On May 20, 2021, the Society of Jesus began the celebration of the Ignatian Year. On that date 500 years ago, St. Ignatius Loyola was wounded by a cannonball while […]

My first real introduction to Ignatian spirituality came from the walls I passed by day after day in the second year of my undergraduate career at Fairfield University. That year, […]

Matters of policy might not seem to fit in an issue of Connections dedicated to St. Ignatius Loyola and his (and our) cannonball moments. As we in the Jesuit family […]