Fr. Paul Schott, SJ, learned early on in his 97 years that much of life is out of our control. He was just starting sophomore year of college in New Orleans when the attack on Pearl Harbor dragged the U.S. into World War II.
May 1, 2015 — When people began asking 99.9-year-old Jesuit Father Michael Lapierre what it feels like to be turning 100, he told them, “I don’t have a choice.” On May 2, Canada’s oldest Jesuit will take his 100th birthday in stride. That Fr. Lapierre would be so logical about entering triple digits is perhaps …
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By Michael Swan April 27, 2015 — Nineteenth-century missionaries arrived in Africa with a Bible in one hand and a plow in the other. Jesuit Brother Paul Desmarais still has a Bible, but he’s given up on the plow. For 40 years Br. Desmarais has run the Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre (KATC) in Zambia. …
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By Tracey Primrose February 18, 2015 — In 1989, when Father Jean-Marc Biron, who had served as a diocesan priest in Quebec for 23 years, asked his bishop if he could leave the diocese and join the Jesuits, the answer was swift and sure. Non, je ne veux pas que vous entries chez les jésuites. No. I don’t …
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January 26, 2015 — Jesuit Father Michael Czerny’s long career in the field of social justice has taken him from El Salvador to Africa to the Holy See. Today he pursues his work from inside the Vatican on the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. The Montreal native graduated from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, …
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By Tracey Primrose January 22, 2015 — When Jesuit Father Peter Bisson, the provincial of the English Canada Province Jesuits, was only 12, he experienced his first real Ignatian discernment, a term he wouldn’t learn for many years. Fr. Bisson knew he wanted to change the world, but he didn’t know how to do it. As he …
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Twenty-five years after the murders of six Jesuits and two lay women in El Salvador, Jesuits strive for justice that forges reconciliation and looks to the future.
Jesuit Father Brian Paulson’s childhood in northern Illinois nurtured and inspired his Jesuit vocation.
When Jesuit Father Scott Santarosa was a kid growing up in Sacramento, California, in the late 1970s, he played Little League, delivered newspapers and rarely watched game shows. But he still understood the mystique of the “prize behind door number three.”