Three former general assistants consider Father Arrupe’s legacy.
Arrupe
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Love Will Decide Everything: Pedro Arrupe recovered the Ignatian ‘mysticism of open eyes.’
Remembering Father Pedro Arrupe on the centennial of his birth.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
“Meeting Arrupe”
Fr. O’Keefe, long time assistant to Pedro Arrupe, remembers meeting him for the first time in New York.
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Messianic or Bourgeois?
Following a junior varsity lacrosse game one slushy spring afternoon in suburban Boston, I overheard a player ask another, Can you be an M.F.O. and take the water jug back to the bus for me, so I can catch a ride with my dad? I wondered, What is an M.F.O.? As a teacher in a Jesuit high school, I tak
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
What Eyes Have Seen
An icon bears witness Maybe that rsquo s why people who know about icons tell us to notice the eyes The eyes more than anything else open us to the experience of the truth that lies behind an icon rsquo s external representation It could also explain why this book begins with the eyesfirst those o
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An Elegaic Portrait
Since the flurry of biographies of Pope John Paul II appeared in the 1990s an uneasy deathwatch has set in among Vaticanologists who have been predicting his imminent death since 1994 The 84-year-old pontiff has not only refused to follow their scenarios he has actually buried many of his
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True Solidarity
Representatives from the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States met at Santa Clara University on Oct. 5-8, 2000, to discuss justice in Jesuit higher education. It was the 25th anniversary of the historic commitment made by the Society of Jesus at its 32nd General Congregation, held
Posted inFaith, Features
The Creative Fidelity of Pedro Arrupe: From December 20, 1997
Pedro Arrupe had the gift of making the Ignatian life not only credible but infectious.
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Don Pedro in History: From February 16, 1991
On the 23rd anniversary of the great Jesuit’s passing, an excerpt from an article that was included in a special issue devoted to Father Pedro Arrupe on the occasion of his death in 1991.