Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, the pioneering school in what is now the Cristo Rey Network, turns 30 this year.
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Loyola Blakefield tackles the all-school Mass problem, dedicating a new altar
How does a Catholic school offer reverential liturgies for its students when the congregation is 1,000 kids in a gym? At Loyola Blakefield in Towson, Md., a new altar is part of the plan.
Posted inShort Take
Dealing with compassion fatigue—the Ignatian way
How can we nurture and maintain compassion amid all the terrible news? Three interconnected aspects of Ignatian spirituality offer a way.
Posted inFaith in Focus
The haunted legacy of a historic Jesuit community
Drexel Hall—the oldest building on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation—is being gutted and rebuilt. But the community it housed lives on.
Posted inIdeas
The pioneering woman who photographed the Jesuits for Life magazine
Few people familiar with American Catholic history know Margaret Bourke-White’s name or how her camerawork popularized American Jesuits in the atomic age.
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Jesuits will consolidate from 5 novitiates to 2
The Society of Jesus in the United States and Canada will bring together its five current novitiates spread throughout the continent into two new novitiates starting in 2028.
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Father James Martin on meeting our moral heroes
This week for the finale of our second season of “The Spiritual Life” podcast, I was able to speak with a moral hero: my Jesuit brother Greg Boyle, the founder of Homeboy Industries.
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Pope Leo to Jesuit university presidents: Guide students to ‘know the One who is Truth’
“Those who conduct research, those who pursue studies and those who seek the truth are ultimately seeking God, whether they realize it or not,” Pope Leo said to members of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
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Migrant farmworkers are lonely and scared. This Jesuit leads a ministry to serve them.
Tom Florek, S.J., is the executive director of the Catholic Migrant Farmworker Network, a national nonprofit made up of 40 dioceses that minister to the thousands of people.
Posted inDispatches
Jesuits to Congress: Look to Pope Leo for A.I. policy ideas
On June 2, the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States addressed a letter to congressional leaders on the implications of Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” for A.I. policy.