How can we nurture and maintain compassion amid all the terrible news? Three interconnected aspects of Ignatian spirituality offer a way.
Jesuits
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.
Posted inNews
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.
Posted inPodcasts
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.
Posted inSpeeches
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.
Posted inFeatures
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.
Posted inJesuit School Spotlight
From the Bronx to the Lecture Hall: What My Jesuit Education Taught Me About Voice and Vocation
What my teachers gave me did not determine where I would go, but it kept pressing one question: What is your education for?
Posted inNews
Pope Leo XIV appoints Jesuit priest as new bishop of Honolulu
Michael T. Castori, S.J., earned a doctorate in Near Eastern Religions from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008. He speaks English, Spanish, Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Tongan.