The latest moves by the Ortega regime came close to a direct expulsion of the Jesuits without actually stepping over that line, according to an expert on Latin American revolutions.
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Jesuit residence in Nicaragua seized by Ortega regime
Nicaraguan officials ratcheted up a harassment campaign targeting Jesuits in Managua over the weekend.
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Remembering Father James F. Keenan, a model of Jesuit life
Jim remembered everyone—even my mother whom he had never met or spoken with. A special occasion would not go by without a phone call or a handwritten note from Jim.
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Archbishop calls for canonizations and transfiguration in El Salvador
Sadly, the church of El Salvador can offer any number of priests, men and women religious and lay people to choose from to hold up as modern exemplars of Christian self-sacrifice.
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Jesuit university’s accounts frozen in Nicaragua
Nicaragua appears to have frozen the bank accounts of the country’s Jesuit university, marking yet another attack on the Catholic Church.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Catholic Book Club: The interstellar Jesuit spirituality of Mary Doria Russell’s ‘The Sparrow’
With ‘The Sparrow,’ Mary Doria Russell imagines an alien world in intimate and fascinating detail—and then sends along some humans with deep questions about faith, God and the universe.
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Ahead of World Youth Day, the head of the Jesuits had a candid Q&A with six young pilgrims
On the feast of St. Ignatius Loyola, Arturo Sosa, S.J, the superior general of the order, had a candid conversation with six young pilgrims representing diverse continents and socio-economic backgrounds.
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MAGIS 2023: Pope Francis says young people are called to be bearers of hope, not superheroes
Pope Francis greeted the pilgrims gathered in Lisbon for the opening of MAGIS 2023, imploring them to “truly believe and become what they are: ‘A future full of hope.’”
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Explainer: MAGIS, the Jesuits’ World Youth Day celebration
The Jesuits will begin their pre-World Youth Day program this Saturday with the start of MAGIS 2023, which will bring about 2,000 young people from 82 countries connected with the Society of Jesus to Lisbon.
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Why so many Jesuit characters in sci-fi? Because the genre deals with God and the problem of evil.
When we think of science fiction, lasers and aliens might come to mind first—but it is also a genre in which religious imagination plays a role.