The very first article in the first issue of The Way, published in January 1961, was entitled ‘Modern Spirituality’. This was before any of the changes associated with the Second Vatican Council, and before the burgeoning of Ignatian spirituality that got under way in the following decade. Yet the author of that article, Martin D’Arcy, was sure even then that a ‘spirituality with a new look’ was in the air. And the Jesuits of what was then the English Province founded a new journal to make this modern spirituality more available and accessible.
For more than six decades now the journal has focused especially on those areas where spirituality and the concerns of contemporary culture intersect. It has taken a broad approach. Teresa of Ávila, saints Francis and Dominic, Bernard of Clairvaux, Simone Weil and, in more recent years, other faith traditions, have all found a place in these pages. In this issue alone you will encounter the twelfth-century Richard of St Victor, the Alcoholics Anonymous Twelve-Step Programme and Greta Thunberg’s ecological activism. But Ignatius of Loyola and the spirituality derived from his Spiritual Exercises have always been closest to the journal’s heart. As we commemorate the five hundredth year since Ignatius’ conversion and the fourth centenary of his canonization, it is Ignatian spirituality that takes centre stage here.
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