As the Ignatian Year comes to an end, we asked people from around the USA Central and Southern Province to share the graces that came from this time of focusing on conversion and putting Christ in the center.

The Ignatian Family in St. Louis is invited to gather for a Mass celebrating the Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, and the close of the Ignatian Year. 

John Guerra, SJ, finds joy in his vocation.

In the last few months, the UCS Province has celebrated the ordination of four new priests and held a province congregation. Progress is also being made on two new Jesuit communities in St. Louis and the Ignatian Year is coming to a close. Read about all this and more by clicking on the link to the PDF below.

The Province Women's Advisory Committee, formed by Fr. Provincial Thomas P. Greene in 2020, held its first-ever Women's Retreat.

A delegation of “Campion Volunteers” from Saint Louis University made a pilgrimage to England to trace the footsteps of the Center’s patron and to represent SLU on visits to Jesuit institutions across the country. 

Brother Bob Macke, SJ, shows how science can be used to adore and worship God.

Pope Francis has appointed Fr. Mark A. Lewis, SJ, rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

Father Ronald O'Dwyer, SJ, has been named president of De Smet Jesuit High School in St. Louis.

As a deacon at St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Grand Coteau, La., David Menard puts his heart into his ministry.

Father Phil Steele, SJ, is rarely in the limelight, but his role as rector of the Jesuit Hall Community at Saint Louis University is critically important.

On June 29, 1922, the New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus opened a novitiate in Grand Coteau, La., a tiny town in southwestern Louisiana., replacing one in Georgia that had been destroyed by fire seven months prior. A century later, Jesuits of the USA Central and Southern Province (which was formed when the New Orleans Province and the Missouri Province combined in 2014) still begin their Jesuit journey in Grand Coteau.