“It is time for Ignatian spirituality and pastoral care to notice that ‘we’re living through an age of trauma, and it’s taking its toll.’ Theology and, more slowly, spirituality are beginning to respond to this special needs population. For example, Christian practice today features any number of spiritual retreats that begin in the ‘bad news’ of traumatic violence personally suffered — which can leave the faculties of human volition paralyzed, affect numb, memory blank, understanding meaningless, and imagination stunted.”