‘There is nothing in this world which does not belong to Christ, no human activity which is irrelevant to the Kingdom of Christ.’ These words are taken from an article by Gerry W. Hughes, written for The Way in the second year of the journal’s publication, more than half a century ago. Hughes, who has recently died at the age of ninety, was undoubtedly the best-known Jesuit spiritual writer of his generation. One of his books, God of Surprises, has to date sold nearly a quarter of a million copies, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. His last work, Cry of Wonder, appeared only a few months ago. Throughout his long life, his was an expansive spirituality, as the quotation above indicates, open to finding God—in a phrase to which he often returned—among ‘Catholics, Protestants and pagans’.
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