Jesuits Magazine: Winter 2021
We invite you to celebrate the women of the Jesuits USA Central and Southern Province with the first-ever Women’s Issue. Jesuits Winter 2021
Mission
David Laughlin: Ignatian Educator, Servant Leader
By Jerry Duggan When David Laughlin set foot on Creighton University’s campus in fall 1984, he didn’t know much about Jesuit education. He wasn’t yet familiar with Ignatian Spirituality, let alone Jesuit pedagogy. What he did have was a reverence for the school, passed down from his family. Laughlin was raised in Omaha, close to Creighton’s campus. Neither …
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Dr. H. Eric Clark: Champion of the Underdog
By Jerry Duggan Dr. H. Eric Clark has always been a champion of the underdog. From giving spare change to a person on the street corner to rooting for the underdog in a sporting event, Dr. Clark loves pulling for the little guy. Clark grew up in North St. Louis with a divorced, single mother …
Justin Daffron, SJ: At the Service of Mission
By Therese Fink Meyerhoff Every baseball fan knows the value of a good utility player. For the Jesuits, Fr. Justin Daffron, SJ, has proved himself to be an outstanding utility player, serving in disparate roles at Jesuit universities in Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans. “The one thing that’s similar about my assignments is that …
In Everything, Love and Serve: Fr. Hung Pham
By Dave Luecking Upon his appointment in August as Provincial Assistant for Formation, Fr. Hung Pham, SJ, became a frequent traveler, visiting Jesuits in far-flung outposts nationally and internationally. Gone for weeks —sometimes months — at a time, he rarely was in St. Louis to use his office at the Jesuits USA Central and Southern Province headquarters. All that changed in mid-March, with shelter-in-place mandates throughout the world because of the global coronavirus pandemic. Just …
Being open to the world: a reflection of the late Fr. Bill Bourke
“That’s the one thing I hope everyone avoids – going to another country is not meant to transplant one so-called developed culture for another supposedly undeveloped.” Several members of the Jesuit Province of Canada work outside the Province. Fr. Bill Bourke, SJ, the last of the Canadian Jesuits to have been sent to India, worked …
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Conference Spurs Optimism about Work for Reconciliation
The quest for reconciliation drew more than 80 Jesuit partners in mission to Regis University in Denver in June. Attendees were challenged to “see, think and act” in new ways to create change and reconciliation in their work and in the broader world.
History Today : Jesuits and Epidemics in New France
Today, people living in what we now call Canada are faced with Covid-19, but it is far from being the first epidemic to attack those living on this continent. For the first few centuries after the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, up to 95% of the Indigenous populations lost their lives, in a large …
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Fr. Javier Díaz, SJ: A Man on a Mission
A physician and Jesuit, Father Francisco Javier Díaz, SJ, was ordained to the priesthood this summer after 14 years of formation.