From the category archives:
A documentary on the life and legacy of Pedro Arrupe, SJ, is available for viewing on YouTube. The film was produced by Georgetown University a couple of years ago. It was uploaded through the Jesuit Channel, a YouTube channel sponsored by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. The video here is the first one in [...]
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A reading list of Jesuit classics.
Jesuits are pro-life.
Jim Martin, SJ goes into the recording studio.
Thinking about Matteo Ricci.
Suggestions for Ignatian prayer.
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In 1602 the Jesuit Matteo Ricci created a map of the world and presented it to the Chinese emperor. It was the first world map to combine the geographic knowledge of the west and east. It is now on display the Library of Congress. Go here for a Times review of the exhibition. A scalable [...]
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December 21 is the feast of another great Jesuit saint, Peter Canisius. Let this post represent a shout-out to Buffalo’s Canisius College and Canisius High School; Jakarta’s Canisius College (secondary school); and Berlin’s Canisius Kolleg (secondary school).
The Dutch-born Canisius (1521-1597) was one of the early first-generation Jesuits. He met Pierre Favre, one of [...]
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My friend and colleague Jim Campbell recently discovered a Jesuit calendar that’s a great resource for anyone interested in all things Jesuit. It was developed by Otto Sayre, SJ, a German Jesuit. The calendar pays special attention to the German history of the Society, but it covers the whole history of the Society, from Ignatius to [...]
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St. Francis Xavier (Indonesia, c. 16th century)
December 3 is the feast of Saint Francis Xavier. Francis is the patron of foreign missions because of his evangelization in India, Indonesia, and Japan (he died off the coast of China, and the site is a pilgrimage destination for Chinese Catholics). Many Asian Catholics to this day recognize [...]
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In early November, Santa Clara University held a three-day conference on the legacy of the six Jesuit martyrs nurdered in El Salvador in 1989. Papers from the conference have been published on the web.
In one of these papers, the theologian Jon Sobrino, SJ, reflects on Ignatius Loyola’s struggle with the challenge of living in poverty.
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Next year is the 400th anniversary of the death of Matteo Ricci, SJ, one of the most remarkable of the early Jesuit missionaries. He was the first to bring European learning and culture to the Chinese. This is a video marking a special exhibition at the Vatican in honor of Ricci.
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NASA has announced that its Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) will strike the Cabeus A crater near the south pole of the moon in early October. The crater is named for Niccolo Cabeo (1586-1659), a Jesuit philosopher and scientist. It turns out that 35 craters on the moon have been named after [...]
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It’s a common misconception that Ignatius Loyola set up the Jesuits along military lines, with a warlike outlook, a rigid chain of command, and unthinking obedience. Wrong, as Nathan O’Halloran explains in this post. Ignatius may have used military language, but it meant something far different than it means today. The knights [...]
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