When Pedro Arrupe, S.J., founded Jesuit Refugee Service in 1980, there were approximately 10 million forcibly displaced people in the world. Today, there are 120 million.
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Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Canonization cause of Pedro Arrupe—Jesuit who tended to victims of Hiroshima—takes an important step forward
The cause for the canonization of Pedro Arrupe, S.J., 28th superior general of the Society of Jesus, took an important step forward today, Nov. 14, with the closing of its diocesan phase.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
The first Jesuit pope makes his first visit to the Gregorian, the university founded by St. Ignatius
History was made on Nov. 5, when Francis, the first Jesuit pope, visited the Gregorian University, the oldest and largest pontifical university in Rome, founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in 1551.
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Dear Pope Francis: Thank you for your words on the Sacred Heart
Pope Francis, your encyclical on the Sacred Heart, “Dilexit Nos,” is beautiful and heartwarming. And for Catholics in the United States, the timing was perfect.
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Hearing a mother weep for her children shaped my Jesuit formation—and is why I trust the synodal process.
Perhaps it seems foolish to put so much stock in one mother’s cry for help. But then again, the cries of our forefathers and foremothers have been central to our faith for centuries.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Mexico’s Catholic Church hopes for a better relationship with President Claudia Sheinbaum
Mexico’s bishops wished Ms. Sheinbaum well. They urged her to govern for all Mexicans, even though she has a congressional majority large enough to permit constitutional changes without seeking support from her political opposition.
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The real man behind ‘The Hoodlum Priest’
Charles “Dismas” Clark, S.J., made caring for prisoners his life’s work—a ministry memorialized in 1961’s “The Hoodlum Priest.”
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What I learned from editing the Jesuit Constitutions
As the first superior general of the Society of Jesus, St. Ignatius wrote a book in which he described the Society’s mission, internal structures and way of proceeding.
Posted inExplainer, Politics & Society
Four American Jesuits who sided with workers to remember on Labor Day
In the United States, the Jesuits have provided striking examples of what solidarity and upholding the rights of workers looks like in an industrial economy.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
‘If we don’t get Jesus right, we won’t get the church right’: The life and teaching of Gerald O’Collins, S.J.
Gerald O’Collins, S.J., the Australian Jesuit theologian who died last week, was a prominent writer in Christology, ecclesiology, spirituality and more in an academic career that spanned seven decades.