José María Tojeira, S.J., is remembered as a person of profound faith, courage, and conviction, someone who devoted his life to championing human rights, justice, and the dignity of the poor and oppressed.
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Jesuit Cardinal Stephen Chow on the true meaning of discernment
“Do not trivialize discernment,” Cardinal Chow says on today’s episode of “The Spiritual Life” with Father James Martin. ”Like, hmm, what lunch do I want to have?”
Posted inIdeas
A summit for Catholic creators: Art, community and spirituality
The Ignatian Creators Summit is a unique blend of professional conference, artistic workshop and spiritual retreat.
Posted inJesuit School Spotlight
Our Jesuit high school banned smartphones. Here’s why it needed to happen.
By removing phones from classrooms, hallways and community spaces, we are not rejecting the digital world but reclaiming something more fundamental: the capacity to learn, to relate and to be fully present.
Posted inFaith and Reason
At Jesuit universities, the government’s D.E.I. crackdown is an attack on religious freedom
Now more than ever, it is urgent to stand up for our university’s autonomy to make curricular decisions based on its Jesuit mission.
Posted inCatholic Book Club
Bernard Lonergan: The (second) English-speaking Doctor of the Church?
The key to the mystery of Bernard Lonergan’s appeal may be that he has helped so many move toward a greater understanding of themselves, the universe and God.
Posted inLast Take
RIP Edward A. Reese, S.J.: My brother, a fellow Jesuit and a champion of poor and minority students
Eddie used to refer to me as the “famous Father Reese” because I was often quoted in the media, but in San Jose, Phoenix and San Francisco he was known to thousands of people as a giant in Jesuit education and a friend.
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The INES program at Loyola School brings Jesuit values to middle school girls
“It’s important to amplify women’s voices in Jesuit education, and so that’s why the program, I think, philosophically exists.”
Posted inMusic
A Jesuit music ministry travels from Hiroshima to Rome to sing for peace
For this Japanese choir, to sing at this memorial for St. Ignatius Loyola was to bring their own prayers for peace as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Martin Scorsese on imaginative prayer and being a Catholic filmmaker
You don’t have to be a world-famous filmmaker to get something out of imaginative prayer.