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Review: a Jesuit’s call not to grow complacent about the crisis in Palestine
In ‘Conquest or Leaven: Reflections of a Catholic Priest in Palestine/Israel,’ Father David Neuhaus parses the realities of life in the Holy Land and asserts a strong call for justice for the oppressed.
Posted inCatholic Book Club
Remembering Peter Henriot, a Jesuit scholar who helped put Catholic social teaching on the map
While U.S. Catholics might remember Peter Henriot, S.J., best for his social justice advocacy, he was better known in the minds of many for his decades of service to the church in Africa.
Posted inDispatches
The original Cristo Rey Jesuit high school celebrates 30 years
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, the pioneering school in what is now the Cristo Rey Network, turns 30 this year.
Posted inJesuit School Spotlight
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.
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.