The USA East Province of the Society of Jesus has announced a matching $2 million per year contribution over the next five years with Georgetown University to benefit the Descendants Truth and Reconciliation Foundation.
As the nation awaits a new ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court regarding abortion, the Jesuits USA Midwest Province recommits to Catholic Church teaching on abortion and reaffirms our commitment to respecting all human life.
As the nation awaits a new ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court regarding abortion, the Jesuits USA Midwest Province recommits to Catholic Church teaching on abortion and reaffirms our commitment to respecting all human life. In 2018, the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States issued a statement on Jesuits’ support for the unborn. …
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By Maura Graham On March 26, 2022, Loyola High School in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony following the completion of the construction of the new Loyola Girls Hostel. Built in 1995 with over $3.9 million in grants from USAID/ASHA, and in partnership with the former Detroit Province of the Society of Jesus, …
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On this feast of St. Francis Xavier, patron of the Jesuit educational ministries in Cincinnati, V. Rev. Karl Kiser, SJ, provincial of the Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus, and the Board of Trustees of Xavier Jesuit Academy are pleased to announce that Fr. Nathan Wendt, SJ, has been appointed as the Academy’s first president.
Fr. Gregory F. Lucey, SJ, former president of Spring Hill College, the Jesuit Conference and the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU), died Sept. 30, 2021, after a brief illness.
The Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus recognizes that we must take responsibility for our legacy of boarding schools with Indigenous peoples. We must all confront, atone, and strive for healing and transformation for the shameful actions against Indigenous people wherever and whenever they have occurred.
It is with great joy that the Midwest Jesuits introduce the ten men who entered the USA Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus at the novitiate in St. Paul on August 21, 2021. Front row, from left: Scott Fox, Solomon Liebl, Leonardo Rander Asse, Aaron Calton, and Benjamin Rogers; back row: Joseph Ertle, Carl …
The USA Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, are pleased to share the news that Fr. Patrick E. McGrath, SJ, President of Loyola Academy in Wilmette, IL, has been appointed pastor of Old St. Patrick’s Church in Chicago. The appointment by Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, made public on June 25, 2021, will take effect in July 2022.
On March 3, 2021, the Jesuits celebrated the Centenary marking the 100thyear since the first five American Jesuits arrived in Patna, India. Jesuit Frs. William Eline, Henry Milen, Patrick Troy, Thomas Kelley, and Edward Anderson arrived in Patna on March 16, 1921 and laid the foundation for the advances in Patna today. View the video …