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Preservar la historia del P. Anderson E. Bakewell y la Compañía de Jesús

Por Ignatius Plato Megan Gilmore es una apasionada de la historia y del papel que los archivos pueden desempeñar en su conservación. Con una formación académica en periodismo e historia, considera que redescubrir fragmentos perdidos del pasado es una herramienta inestimable para contar historias. Gilmore ha realizado recientemente unas prácticas en el Centro de Archivos …

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Preserving the Story of Fr. Anderson E. Bakewell and the Society of Jesus

By Ignatius Plato Megan Gilmore is passionate about history and the role archives can play in preserving it. With an academic background in both journalism and history, she finds rediscovering lost bits of the past an invaluable tool for storytelling. Gilmore recently completed an internship with the Jesuit Archives and Research Center (JARC), where her …

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Pilgrims and Tourists (And the End of Dualistic Thinking)

On a recent visit to the Church of the Gesù in Rome, one of the first things I noticed was a young woman gazing at the magnificent fresco on the ceiling. She resembled a stargazer in the middle of a field.

Jesuit Archives & Research Center Marks Fifth Anniversary

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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Celebran el 5° aniversario del Centro de Investigación y Archivos Jesuitas

Cinco años es un abrir y cerrar de ojos en los casi 500 años de vida de la Compañía de Jesús. Parece que fue ayer cuando esta revista anunció la apertura del Centro de Investigación y Archivos Jesuitas (Jesuit Archives & Research Center) en San Luis, pero, de hecho, el JARC (por sus siglas en …

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The Day Fr. Ed Dowling, SJ, Brought AA’s Bill Wilson to Meet the St. Louis Jesuits

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.

The Wounded Ignatius: A Saint Empowered by the Secular

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

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 …

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AMDG Podcast: How One Liturgical Vestment Explains the Rise and Fall of Catholic England

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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Five Years after Hurricane Maria: Recalling the Impact on Puerto Rico

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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