Educator and Scholar Fr. James Swetnam, SJ, Dies in St. Louis

April 28, 2025, St. Louis – Father James H. Swetnam, SJ, died April 27, 2025, in Florissant, Missouri. He was 97 years old, a Jesuit for 79 years and a priest for 66 years. His life will be celebrated in a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 10, at the St. […]

Growth in Formation: One Jesuit’s Summer

This Giving Tuesday, all gifts to the Jesuits USA Central and Southern Province will benefit Jesuits in formation like Joe Laughlin, who shares his story below. If you want to help ensure we can continue to provide these formative experiences, please visit bit.ly/giving-tuesday-2024. By Joseph Laughlin, SJ, Jesuit Scholastic I want to share with you […]

Meet our Two Ordinands

May 21, 2023 – Two members of the Jesuits USA Central and Southern (UCS) Province will be ordained priests on Saturday, June 8, 2024. You can watch live at 10:00 a.m. CDT at bit.ly/ordinations2024. A worship aid is available here. Daniel J. Everson, SJ, and J. Michael Mohr, SJ, entered the Society of Jesus in […]

Finding Moments of Grace

By José Lopez | Dajabon, Dominican Republic Thanks to Novice Director Fr. Drew Kirschman, who was always creative about my discernment process, I was able to explore the experience of being a Jesuit in a Latin American context. My incredible long experiment in Dajabon, Dominican Republic, was one of the most formative experiences of my […]

A Language for What Matters Most

By Joseph Laughlin, SJ | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic “Joe, we’re missioning you to Santo Domingo.” These were the words of Fr. Drew Kirschman, SJ, my novice director, as he informed me that I would spend my long experiment at Colegio Loyola, a pre-K through 12th grade school in the Dominican Republic. My imagination started […]

Lord, Teach Me How to Play

By Scott McKillip, SJ | Pine Ridge Reservation Late one night, my novice brother and I piled into the Toyota. We began our drive on the only road crossing through the vast miles of rolling hills on this side of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. We were in the kind of darkness one knows only […]

Jesuits Magazine, Fall 2023

The fall issue of Jesuits magazine celebrates the province’s past – including 200 years of Jesuits in St. Louis – and takes a look at some of the new ways Jesuits continue to find new ways to meet the needs of our world. Read it here.

New Ignatian Formation Coordinator for the Alum Service Corps

A life of service brings joy. The Alum Service Corps (ASC) exemplifies this simple truth through education and service to high school students. Dan Everson, SJ, the new Ignatian formation coordinator for the ASC, hopes that ASC volunteers experience the joy that comes from this life of service. Everson has a background in teaching, having […]