To be truly Catholic, a truly new and truly original order has to care naught about originality and all about making men fall in love with eternal truths. This is what the Society of Ignatians ardently aspires to: to be an offspring of the eternally Catholic, a dream rooted in eternity, one more instance of […]
With a Catholic Vision “The view implicit in my education” wrote Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited, “was that the basic narrative of Christianity had long been exposed as a myth, and that opinion was now divided as to whether its ethical teaching was of present value, a division in which the main weight went against it: […]
“I have come to set the world on fire, and I wish it were already burning!” (Lk 12:49). Ignatians Foster the Imagination of Catholic Creative Minorities By creating an ethos firstly among its own members and then among creatively-minded Catholic laity, the Society of Ignatians aims to provoke, ignite, and channel countless initiatives for the […]
“Our civilization developed as a Catholic civilization. It developed and matured as a Catholic thing. With the loss of the Faith it will slip back not only into Paganism, but into barbarism with the accompaniments of Paganism, and especially the institution of slavery. It will find gods to worship, but they will be evil gods […]
The state according to Nietzsche is “the coldest of all cold monsters” and when it tries to control all dimensions of the citizen’s private and social life it then becomes the most monstrous of beasts: the totalitarian régime. It is, strictly speaking, a creature of the modern world. Its tools only came into existence in the […]
At The Turning of the Tide: The Catholic Moment? Faced with the seemingly unstoppable tsunami of the Dictatorship of Relativism and cultural Marxism in society, waves of trepidation could also surge within the priest’s heart to flood any hope of rebuilding Christian civilization, submerging his creativity and action. The strongest barriers against such flooding are, […]
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” – William […]
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For the Ignatian spirit, constituted by the ideals of Saints Ignatius of Antioch and Ignatius of Loyola, to become real it must achieve three goals. Firstly, it must embody itself in individual men who have freely decided, out of sheer conviction and love, to make it the driving force of their daily existence. Secondly, these […]
Forming Youth as Creative Minorities “What is there more noble than to train the minds and mould the character of the young? I consider him who is skilled in forming the minds of youth as greater than any painter or sculptor – greater than all artists” – St.John Chrysostom We Have no Right to Surrender […]
Society of Saints Ignatius of Antioch and Ignatius of Loyola. The Society of Ignatians desires first and foremost to play its part in a renaissance of holiness, truth, and beauty in the Church by itself being a group of men committed, body and soul, to this ideal. Holiness! This has always been, and ever will […]