Following the earthquake in Haiti on August 14, 2021, a network of Jesuit international development organizations and mission offices has launched a global fundraising effort to support Jesuit relief efforts in the country.
The Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus recognizes that we must take responsibility for our legacy of boarding schools with Indigenous peoples. We must all confront, atone, and strive for healing and transformation for the shameful actions against Indigenous people wherever and whenever they have occurred.
The Society of Jesus celebrates the Ignatian Year in 2021–2022, 500 years after the cannonball injury that precipitated the conversion of Saint Ignatius. Half a millennium after this event, Jesuits can be found in all parts of the globe. Meanwhile, the world has changed. The Catholic world has changed as well, marked in recent history …
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On July 31, 2021, the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, one of his sons, Fr. Sean Carroll, SJ, the new provincial of the Jesuits West Province, was welcomed at a Mass of Thanksgiving held at St. Ignatius Church in Portland.
On July 31, the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Fr. Sean Carroll, SJ, will be installed as the new provincial of Jesuits West during a Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Ignatius Church in Portland, Oregon.
By Mike Gabriele Pride goeth before a fall. This familiar phrase describes all-too-well a very fateful day on May 20, 1521, when the governor of Spain urged a Basque soldier named Ignatius of Loyola to avoid an unwinnable clash with the people of Pamplona, who were now backed by the French. The arrogant Spanish warrior, …
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We’re proud to announce that our Jesuit Conference’s Office of Communications and Vocation Promotion won eight 2021 Catholic Press Awards last week, including honors for the AMDG podcast and various video, written and social media content.
The Jesuits of Canada and the United States launched the Ignatian Media Lab (IML) earlier this year, asking those who had digital media ideas to help promote the Jesuit mission to apply. Many did, and now we invite you to meet the IML participants and learn about their projects as they work to launch them …
Cinco de Mayo, May 5, was an exceptionally beautiful day at the Jesuit West Province’s retirement/health care center in Los Gatos, California. The Jesuits there were in a festive mood. Covid-19 had robbed these men of eight of their brother Jesuits, and after months of mourning, isolating and social distancing, it felt good to sit in the sunshine to celebrate something.
The Ignatian Year 2021–2022 begins on May 20, just a few days from now, 500 years after Saint Ignatius of Loyola was wounded by a cannonball, the event that would lead to his conversion. This is a unique opportunity that should not be missed, insists Father General Arturo Sosa. The theme of conversion is central …