Will Hayes, nSJ, to Pronounce First Vows
Will Hayes, nSJ, pronounced first vows in the Society of Jesus on August 10, 2024.
One Family’s Struggle to Claim Asylum
By MegAnne Liebsch June 11, 2024—Joshuar and Stephanie want what every parent wants for their children—freedom, safety, a good education. For them to be good people. That’s why they fled Venezuela with their 10-year-old Andres and toddler Victoria. By foot and bus, they traveled to the US-Mexico border to seek asylum. In the border town […]
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 […]
Inspiring Modern-Day Missionaries on the Brébeuf Relic Tour
Video by Fr. W. Tucker Redding, SJ Story by Rachel Amiri The history of the Society of Jesus is rich with the witness of saints who offered their lives as missionaries and martyrs. A desire to inspire a new generation of missionaries led the vocations teams from the Jesuits USA Central and Southern, Midwest and […]
Jesuits in Service to the Society and Church in Rome
When a man becomes a Jesuit, he enters not a province, but the Society of Jesus. Members of the USA Central and Southern Province serve not only within the boundaries of this province, but wherever they are needed “for the defense and propagation of the faith and for the rendering of any service in the […]
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 […]
Living Synodality in Belize
By William Manaker, SJ I arrived in Belize for a month-long immersion experience in the Mayan villages of the Toledo District with only minimal background information. I would be working with several brother Jesuits to facilitate retreats for village catechists. We’d be collaborating with a committee of indigenous Mayan leaders. Mayans in Belize speak two […]
