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 ...

Diocese celebrates Bishop Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez as undreds gather at Cathedral of St. Ignatius Loyola for new bishop ...

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 ...

This Spanish saint was one of the most influential figures in the Roman Catholic Reformation in the 16th Century and the founder of the religious order, the Society of Jesus. Ignatius was born in 1491 ...

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 ...

Thirty-five SLU-Madrid students embarked on a pilgrimage to Spain's beautiful Basque Country for the Loyola Ignatian Pilgrimage Retreat. With trees that decorate the landscape, green hills that seem ...

Ignatius of Loyola was born in 1491 into an important and noble Basque family in northern Spain. In his youth he was a swaggering “caballero” and a solider in the service of King Ferdinand of Spain.

If ever there was a year for a stiff drink, it was 2020. We weathered the whiskey-worthy events: the pandemic pall; the protests for George Floyd in particular and racial injustice in general; the ...