Urban planning is an inherently Catholic practice

This urban planner’s work is shaped by Ignatian spirituality.

Growing up Catholic in Chicago, urban planner Jamie Kralovec has made the study of cities his life’s vocation. For him, it’s a vocation that combines the practical discipline of urban planning with a deep Ignatian spirituality.

Kralovec attended a Jesuit high school and learned about the Jesuit order’s origins as an urban ministry. “This stuck with me,” he says. “The connection between the earthly city and the spirituality of realizing God’s call for us, of realizing justice and building the kingdom of God on Earth—I’ve always seen that naturally in the city.”

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