Five hundred years after that cannonball blast, we honor Ignatius Loyola, as a visionary and saint on his feast day, July 31.

Ignatian discernment might help our contemporary leaders see where they are being falsely led and where the truth might be.

Juneteenth is more than a day of celebration. It is a challenge to be accountable to one another as members of a beloved community.

In Pamplona, five hundred years ago, all Ignatius’ worldly dreams were shattered in an instant. The cannonball that wounded him changed the course of his life, and the course of the world.

In an effort to foster a prayerful community in celebration together, America has compiled a list of events that will be updated as the year goes on.

St. Ignatius ”was a reformer and a better reformer than Luther,” Father Sosa says in this interview with America for the start of the Ignatian Year, because he “obtained reforms without causing division.”