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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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Bicentennial: Jesuits Arrive in St. Louis May 31, 1823

May 31, 2023 – In 1823, not long after Pope Pius VII restored the Society of Jesus in 1814, twelve Jesuits and six enslaved people set off down the Ohio River with little to guide them but an intense faith that God would lead them safely through twisting channels and submerged tree trunks to a …

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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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SLU Catholic Studies Supporters Make Pilgrimage to England

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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Novices Celebrate a Century in Grand Coteau

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 …

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Papal Politics and the Canonization of Ignatius and Francis Xavier

By Jerry Duggan Nearly 500 years after the founding of the Society of Jesus, St. Ignatius Loyola and St. Francis Xavier are widely revered and respected. It wasn’t always so. This March 12 marks the 400th anniversary of both saints’ canonizations. It turns out there’s a story there, one I had the privilege of hearing …

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Lost in Flames: Remembering the St. Stanislaus Novitiate of Macon, Georgia

By Jerry Duggan Small is the number of people who recall that the former New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus (which merged with the former Missouri Province in 2014 to create what is today known as the Jesuits USA Central and Southern Province) once had its novitiate in Macon, Georgia. That chapter in …

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Jesuit-Educated: Poised for Leadership in Service to Others

Saint Ignatius of Loyola had many things to say about leadership, so it’s not hard to imagine why Jesuit-educated people of faith take those lessons and apply them to leadership roles within the broader Church; nor is it hard to imagine that Jesuit-educated people of faith would contribute their talent to institutions working Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, for the greater glory of God. John Liston, executive director of Serra International and a Loyola University Chicago law graduate, has dedicated his life to his work int he promotion of vocations. Liston says, “I rely on the theological under pinning sinter woven into my education in the law.

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