Jesuits and Their Lay Partners
Fr. Adolfo Nicolas, SJ, Superior General of the Jesuits, reflects on Jesuit institutions and lay people. This is from a summary of a talk...
Standing with the Refugees
I would like to be like Gary Smith, SJ. He does heroic and humble work with refugees in Africa. I have written about him...
Ignatius and Poverty
In early November, Santa Clara University held a three-day conference on the legacy of the six Jesuit martyrs nurdered in El Salvador in 1989. ...
Posada
Every year some 100,000 undocumented minors are picked up by the U.S. Border Patrol as they try to enter the United States. Posada is...
In Honor of El Salvador Jesuits
Yesterday the US House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the six Jesuit priests and two women murdered in El Salvador in 1989. ...
The Jesuit on the Waterfront
James Fisher, a professor of history at Fordham, has just published On the Irish Waterfront, the story of the New York/New Jersey waterfront, which...
Back to School at Cristo Rey
This week classes start at 22 US high schools that are part of the Cristo Rey network, an innovative and highly successful model for...
How the Jesuits Got So Worldly
Historian John W. O'Malley, SJ, ponders Jesuit worldliness in a recent article. He starts with a Jesuit joke, but the "worldliness" of the Jesuits...
The List 6.1.09: Gary Smith, SJ
The List is a weekly feature highlighting something remarkable, offbeat, or otherwise noteworthy from the world of the Jesuits and Ignatian spirituality. Gary Smith...