Jesus' Seven Last Words - Part 7 - On Good Friday 2015, Fr. Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, delivered a homily at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC on Jesus’ Seven Last Words.
Jesus' Seven Last Words - Part 6 - On Good Friday 2015, Fr. Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, delivered a homily at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC on Jesus’ Seven Last Words.
Jesus' Seven Last Words - Part 5 - On Good Friday 2015, Fr. Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, delivered a homily at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC on Jesus’ Seven Last Words.
Jesus' Seven Last Words - Part 4 - On Good Friday 2015, Fr. Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, delivered a homily at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC on Jesus’ Seven Last Words.
Jesus' Seven Last Words - Part 3 - On Good Friday 2015, Fr. Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, delivered a homily at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC on Jesus’ Seven Last Words.
Jesus' Seven Last Words - Part 2 - On Good Friday 2015, Fr. Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, delivered a homily at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC on Jesus’ Seven Last Words.
Jesus' Seven Last Words - Part 1 - On Good Friday 2015, Fr. Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, delivered a homily at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC on Jesus’ Seven Last Words.
By Doris Yu Against the backdrop of MAGIS and World Youth Day 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, National Jesuit News sat down with Jesuit scholastics Eric Sundrup and Sam Sawyer, associate editors of The Jesuit Post, to talk about their experience interviewing Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Jesuit Father Adolfo Nicolás. Sundrup and Sawyer took the opportunity to interview Fr. Nicolás during his appearance at MAGIS at Colégio Antônio Vieira, the Jesuit high school in Salvador, Brazil. Sp...
In his first 100 days on the job, Pope Francis has created many meaningful moments, according to Father Thomas H. Smolich, S.J., president of the Jesuit Conference. In this podcast for National Jesuit News, Father Smolich talks about the importance of first impressions, Pope Francis’ Jesuit spirituality and a renewed sense of hopefulness.
After graduating from Creighton University in 2010, Molly Mullen joined Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Asia Pacific working with refugees and telling their stories. Two years later she is a communications consultant for JRS International and travels to different regions setting up communications programs that empower refugees and others to bring to light the issues and needs of displaced people. "Creighton and the Jesuits have been a part of my life forever," says Mullen, whose mother is a profess...
Jesuit Fr. Ken Gavin, Assistant International Director of Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), reflects on the many ways the Jesuits are serving where the need is greatest around the globe. Interviewed by Jeremy Langford, Director of Communications for the Chicago-Detroit Province Jesuits, Fr. Gavin also shares some of his own journey as a Jesuit and Pope Francis' call to solidarity with the poor. This interview took place at JRS headquarters in Rome on April 23, 2013. For more information on Jesuit Re...
All eyes were on Rome this week as the Holy Father offered his final blessing to the faithful, and cardinals from around the world gathered in advance of the papal conclave. Through it all, Jesuit scholastic Mike Rogers, who is studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, has had a front row seat for a week he will never forget. Rogers, a New England Province Jesuit, was missioned to study in Rome in 2010. As all of his classes are taught in Italian, he studied the language for three...
The Society of Jesus, the largest religious order of Roman Catholic priests and brothers in the world, has worked in Uganda for more than 40 years. The Society’s Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) has conducted peace-building workshops, run schools and economic development projects and ministered to refugees in Uganda. In 2005, the Jesuits of the Eastern Africa Province began planning for a secondary school in northern Uganda, the Ocer Campion Jesuit College in Gulu. The co-educational high school adm...
Jesuit Father Gregory Konz, Secretary for Higher Education, Finance and Advancement at the Jesuit Conference, recently offered reflections on the four weeks (or periods of time) in St. Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises, and how each week provides a different spiritual experience of Lent.
During the liturgical season of Lent, many Catholics give things up - from avoiding Facebook to abstaining from the office candy jar for 40 days. The list is endless. But Lent isn't just about giving up. It can also be used as an opportunity for growth in your spiritual life. Jesuit Father Greg Konz, Secretary for Higher Education, Finance and Advancement at the Jesuit Conference recently offered reflections on the four themes found throughout St. Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises, and how they can ...
In this month’s National Jesuit News podcast, we speak with Jesuit Father Ed Reese, who currently serves as the president of Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona. A recent addition to Brophy is Loyola Academy, which provides a Catholic, Jesuit education to 6th, 7th, and 8th grade boys who demonstrate academic promise but have had limited educational opportunities. Loyola Academy currently serves one class of sixth grade boys, and will add a new sixth grade class for the 2012/2013 schoo...
Fr. Arroyo currently serves as the Alabama Associate for the Jesuit Social Research Institute. Based out of New Orleans, the Jesuit Social Research Institute, JSRI, works throughout the Gulf South doing research, analysis, education, and advocacy on the issues of poverty, race, and migration.
Jesuit Father Peter Klink is currently the school parish chaplain at the Red Cloud Indian School in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. The Pine Ridge reservation of the Lakota Tribe covers a large, 5,000 square foot swath of land in the southwestern corner of South Dakota. Here, Fr. Klink ministers to the Lakota’s communities three schools and in its parishes. He’s held many responsibilities during his 26 years of native ministry on the Pine Ridge, including 18 years as the school’s president....
The Gregorian is part of a larger consortium consisting of three schools serving more than 3,800 students: The Pontifical Gregorian University, The Pontifical Biblical Institute and The Pontifical Oriental Institute for Eastern Christian Studies. In the United States, the Gregorian University Foundation was established in 1972 to raise the needed funds for scholarships, academic chairs, libraries and capital improvements for the Pontifical Gregorian University Consortium.
Jesuit Father James Kubicki recently spoke with National Jesuit News about his work with the Apostleship of Prayer, where he currently serves as it’s national director. Fr. Kubicki’s involvement with the Apostleship of Prayer goes back to his high school days when he first encountered the monthly leaflets with the Holy Father’s intentions. In this month’s podcast with National Jesuit News, Kubicki shared the goals of the Apostleship of Prayer, its service to the Church, and its growing outreach ...
