We tell people making the online retreat for the first time to “Trust God. Trust yourself. And, trust this process.”

My inner silence returned me to the cathedral, and to the meaning of the priesthood.

Jan. 31, 2015, would have marked the 100th birthday of the American Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton.

Some people, focused almost exclusively on numbers, are concerned that religious life is in decline. This narrows our ability to see what God is doing.

A number of people have asked me about Jesuit formation, particularly the nomenclature, and the way that Jesuits refer to one another at various stages. So here goes. 

Here was an average man without much prior interest in religious observance, assuming that he could emulate two of the greatest saints in the Christian tradition.