On June 14, 2021, at the end of an otherwise routine midday Mass at the Midwest Jesuits’ province office, Fr. Glen Chun, SJ, socius of the Midwest Province, rose to read a short letter from Fr. Arturo Sosa, SJ, Superior General of the Society of Jesus. The letter read: “Confident in the Lord with regard …
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There’s one line in Pope Francis’ new document on young people and the church (titled “Christus vivit,” or “Christ is Alive”) I keep chuckling about. “Make a ruckus!” he writes, speaking directly to youth and young adults.
The Eastern Africa Jesuit Province, located in the Great Lakes area in the Horn of Africa, is dynamic and youthful. Formed in 1986 and consisting of Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan, South Sudan, and Uganda, 200 Jesuits in the province serve more than 240 million people in a region roughly the size of the United States east of the Mississippi River.
In the final days of Lent, Fr. Brian G. Paulson, SJ, provincial of the Midwest Jesuits, reflects on A Living Sacrifice of Praise.
With the launch of the sainthood cause for Fr. Arrupe, a reflection on his legacy.
Today, Pope Francis canonized a pope and a martyr: Pope John Paul VI and Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, El Salvador.
Fr. Timothy Kesicki, SJ, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the U.S., discusses some of the highlights of the provincials’ time with Father General.
In an interview with Vatican News, Fr. Luke Hansen, SJ, discusses women’s leadership roles in the church.
By Philippa Hitchen March 8, 2018 — Today marks International Women’s Day, an event marked in countries around the world to celebrate progress in moving toward equality for women in all areas of political, social, and economic life. Father Luke Hansen, SJ, worked at a women’s federal prison in California as a deacon, a ministry …
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November 20, 2017 — In his 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si’, Pope Francis spoke incisively about our world’s environmental crisis. He called us all to become people of compassionate care for the planet. So, when Loyola University Chicago Theology Professor Michael Schuck and IES Dean Nancy Tuchman found themselves in St. Peter’s Square in September, they …