From the category archives:
Fr. Adolfo Nicolas, SJ, Superior General of the Jesuits, reflects on Jesuit institutions and lay people. This is from a summary of a talk he gave recently to Jesuits working in the social apostolate:
Mobility is essential to our charism; thus we need to learn a new way of discernment, to let go and move on. [...]
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I would like to be like Gary Smith, SJ. He does heroic and humble work with refugees in Africa. I have written about him here before. To feel the spirit of the Jesuit Refugee Service, read this letter that Gary recently wrote about his work in South Africa. It’s harrowing, but also extraordinarily moving:
But however [...]
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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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Every year some 100,000 undocumented minors are picked up by the U.S. Border Patrol as they try to enter the United States. Posada is a 55-minute documentary film that tells the story of three who stayed. The film was written, produced, and directed by Mark McGregor, SJ, who teaches film at Gonzaga University. [...]
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Yesterday the US House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the six Jesuit priests and two women murdered in El Salvador in 1989. The dead are Jesuit Fathers Ignacio Ellacuria, Ignacio Martin-Baro, Segundo Montes, Amando Lopez, Juan Ramon Moreno, Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, and housekeeper Julia Elba Ramos and her daughter Celina Mariset Ramos. [...]
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A recent website JesuitSocialMinistry.org is a comprehensive listing of Jesuit programs in the social apostolate. Programs are classified into three categories: Direct Service, Justice Research and Education, and Advocacy/Social Change/Empowerment. A nifty feature displays all these programs on a map. The site includes a page of links to documents underlying the Jesuit social apostolate, including [...]
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The lives of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin cause Paul Lickteig, SJ, to consider the limits to serving other people:
I also see the way I draw lines between myself and others. I see the “other” and I see my desires and I say, “God, I will do this much for that person, but no more.” [...]
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James Fisher, a professor of history at Fordham, has just published On the Irish Waterfront, the story of the New York/New Jersey waterfront, which was run by the Irish mob for the first half of the 20th century. A review is here. America magazine has made a video of the author talking about the book.
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This week classes start at 22 US high schools that are part of the Cristo Rey network, an innovative and highly successful model for urban education. Cristo Rey schools serve the urban poor. 99 percent of their graduates go to college. The schools are partly financed through their students’ paid internships at local businesses. Many [...]
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Historian John W. O’Malley, SJ, ponders Jesuit worldliness in a recent article. He starts with a Jesuit joke, but the “worldliness” of the Jesuits is no joke. It’s real.
The decision to operate schools gave the Society a big shove in the worldly direction. But O’Malley traces the roots of worldliness to the Jesuits’ early commitment [...]
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