Debra Pacheco
Debra Pacheco, assistant principal for academics at Jesuit High School of Tampa has led by example in the school’s efforts to promote student excellence for the past decade.
Shared Mission at Saint Louis University
SLU’s Shared Mission program offers an in-depth, community-based, mission formation opportunity for all SLU faculty, staff and administration.
Reflections on Lay Collaboration with Jesuits
By Mark McNeil The Preamble to the Constitutions of the Jesuit Secondary Education Association (1970) offered a response to some troubling and pressing questions regarding Jesuit education. Chief among these was, “Does it really make sense to call a school ‘Jesuit,’ when many or most of those teaching and working in Jesuit schools are not […]
A Place in the Classroom: Academic Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities
By Ignatius Plato Mary, a student with Down Syndrome at Regis University in Denver, wanted to live in a dorm on campus for her second year. Her parents questioned whether she would be able to live away from home. However, with support from Regis’s GLOBAL Inclusive Program, Mary is living on campus and thriving socially, […]
Jesuits Magazine – Winter 2024
The Winter 2024 issue of Jesuits magazine features stories on our Jesuits serving in Rome, Del Camino Jesuit Border Ministries and a pull-out resource for your Lenten prayer. Download it here.
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.
Love Shown in Actions: Jesuit Tampa’s Service to Migrants
By Ignatius Plato When Pope Francis approved the Society of Jesus’ Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs) in 2019, the themes were familiar to anyone who knows the Jesuits. In addition to showing the way to God through the Spiritual Exercises and care for our common home, the UAPs put accompanying young people and the marginalized front […]
Province Offers Colleagues of Color Retreat for Educators in Jesuit Schools
By Ignatius Plato Educators who are also people of color are often called upon to do extra work precisely because they are people of color. It is an expectation that is both challenging and stress inducing. “So often, our high school teachers of color are asked to ‘be on this diversity committee’ and ‘be on […]
Fr. Ronald R. O’Dwyer, SJ, Missioned as President of De Smet Jesuit
June 30, 2022 – Father Ronald R. O’Dwyer, SJ, has been named De Smet Jesuit High School’s next president. Father O’Dwyer was appointed interim president of De Smet in January 2022. As interim president, Fr. O’Dwyer began the process of creating a shared vision for the transformation of programs and facilities at De Smet Jesuit. […]
Sharing the Whole Story: Teaching the Complex History and Legacy of American Slavery
By Therese Fink Meyerhoff A few years ago, Dr. Katrina Thompson Moore, an associate professor of history at Saint Louis University, was helping her niece prepare for a high school social studies test on the U.S. Civil War era. Because Dr. Moore’s area of study is the institution of slavery, she could offer her niece […]
Jesuits Magazine: Winter 2022
In this issue, read about how to pray through Lent with the Universal Apostolic Preferences, our ministry on the border and more. Jesuits Winter 2022
Lost in Flames: Remembering the St. Stanislaus Novitiate of Macon, Georgia
By Jerry Duggan Small is the number of people who recall that the former New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus (which merged with the former Missouri Province in 2014 to create what is today known as the Jesuits USA Central and Southern Province) once had its novitiate in Macon, Georgia. That chapter in […]