Five years is the blink of an eye in the nearly 500-year life of the Society of Jesus. It feels like just yesterday that the province announced the opening of the Jesuit Archives & Research Center in St. Louis, but in fact, the JARC, as it is known familiarly, opened to the public in April …
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Fr. Ed’s gentle guidance helped Bill maintain his spiritual sobriety — the interior stability he needed as he struggled to keep up with the demands that AA’s growing popularity placed upon him.
by Fred Kramer Fred Kramer is a former counselor and teacher at De Smet Jesuit High School. In the following article, he offers a bit of conjecture about a piece of fiction that a young Ignatius of Loyola might have read. Most people associated with the Jesuits know the story of Ignatius’s conversion after suffering …
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Balkan Odyssey: A Study Tour to Greece, North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Kosovo, Bulgaria July 2023 PRESENTED BY PATRICIA O’REILLY AND SCOTT LEWIS, SJ The Balkans are a rich blend of diverse religions, peoples, cultures, and histories. The Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Slavs, Bulgars, and Ottoman Turks have all left their mark on the multi-layered civilization of …
November 10, 2022 — A king. A cope. And a faith under siege. Intrigued? Today’s episode covers all this and more. Our guest, Dr. Jan Graffius, the curator of collections at Stonyhurst College in the UK — the oldest surviving Jesuit school in the world — is our guide through a riveting history that traces …
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By Therese Fink Meyerhoff “Since Maria …” It’s a phrase one hears often when talking to people on Puerto Rico, much like “before Katrina” when speaking to New Orleanians. Life on Puerto Rico is marked as “before Maria” and “since Maria,” referring to the Category 4 hurricane that struck the island on Sept. 20, 2017. …
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July 14, 2022 – Every Monday night during the academic year, upwards of 150 students gather at Saint Louis University’s Catholic Studies Center for “Campion Night,” a program of spiritual and cultural formation named for the English Jesuit martyr St. Edmund Campion. A network of more than 65 volunteers and benefactors, many of them SLU …
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The Jesuits are known for taking on difficult assignments, for their missionary zeal, and work on the margins of society. Such is the case with the Jesuits in St. John’s, NL who are being called to help restructure the Archdiocese there. “We will be able to participate in a kind of rebuilding of the local …
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By Jerry Duggan On June 29, 1922, the New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus opened a novitiate in Grand Coteau, La., a tiny town in southwestern Louisiana., replacing one in Georgia that had been destroyed by fire seven months prior. A century later, Jesuits of the USA Central and Southern Province (which was …
May 20, 2022 – For Jesuits, May 20 is not just another date on the calendar, but rather a pivotal moment in our founder’s history: It marks the anniversary of the spiritual conversion of St. Ignatius. St. Ignatius was struck by a cannonball 501 years ago today during the Battle of Pamplona, leaving him with …