Ignatian Volunteer Corps: Write Your Best Chapter Yet
What comes next after retirement? At the Ignatian Volunteer Corps (IVC), older adults discover that retirement is just the beginning of an exciting new chapter—a chance to live with purpose, vitality and joy while making a real difference in the world. For over 30 years, IVC has empowered individuals to use their gifts and talents […]
Jesuits Magazine – Summer 2024
The Summer 2024 issue of Jesuits magazine features stories on our newly ordained priests, the Brébeuf relic tour, lay formation in Jesuit higher education and an Ignatian understanding of faithful citizenship. Download it here.
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 […]
Del Camino Jesuit Border Ministries
Del Camino Jesuit Border Ministries is itinerant and missionary in nature and strives to walk with the excluded, as articulated in the Universal Apostolic Preferences of the Society of Jesus.
Hospitality to Angels: Contributing to the Humanitarian Response on the Border
By Beau Guedry, SJ Yo vengo a traerte vida Vida en abundancia en abundancia Yo soy el camino, La verdad y la vida Vida en abundancia En abundancia (I come to bring you life Life in abundance In abundance I am the way, The truth, and the life Life in abundance In abundance) November, 2021 […]
We cannot remain silent!
The Jesuits voice their deep concern over the ongoing Gaza conflict, calling for peace, an immediate ceasefire, and negotiations towards justice in the Middle East.
Civil Rights Pilgrimage Brings New Orleans Catholics Together
By Rachel Amiri On February 24, a group from Holy Name of Jesus and Immaculate Conception Jesuit parishes, St. Katharine Drexel Catholic Church, the Loyola University Community Action Program (LUCAP) and the Ignatian Volunteer Corps (IVC) embarked on a sobering and prayerful journey to Montgomery, Alabama, the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement in the […]
Discovering the Gifts of Service through the Ignatian Volunteer Corps
By Rachel Amiri When she retired early from a successful career at Deloitte in 2021, Christi Franko-Torack didn’t know exactly what her future would hold. But she did know that her next chapter would focus on living out her mother’s lifelong motto: “Faith, family, friends and fun—in that order.” As a service member with the […]
Del Camino Jesuit Border Ministries: Responding to Pastoral and Sacramental Needs
By Fr. Brian Strassburger, SJ I first met Gaby and Meidy in July 2022 when a new shelter for migrants, Senda 2, was opening in Reynosa, Mexico. They were a lesbian couple traveling together from El Salvador, where they had faced discrimination based on their sexual orientation. They had come to seek asylum in the […]
Fr. Harry Tompson, SJ: A Legacy of Compassion
By Mary Baudouin “Son, if you want to know what to do with your life, just go do the thing that helps the most amount of people in the shortest amount of time, and that’s where you’re supposed to be.” This was the advice Fr. Harry Tompson, SJ, gave to a young Mitch Landrieu, when […]
Christine Dragonette Promotes Love in Action at St. Francis Xavier College Church
By Ignatius Plato Social justice is central to the Society of Jesus’ way of proceeding. Christine Dragonette, the director of social ministry at St. Francis Xavier College Church in St. Louis, shares fully in this mission, basing all she does in love of her neighbors. Dragonette has served in social ministry at the parish for […]
Prayer, Service and Community in the Jesuit Anti-Racism Sodality
By Ignatius Plato The Jesuits Anti-Racism Sodality (JARS) formed in the Jesuits USA Central and Southern (UCS) Province in response to the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso that left 22 Latino people dead. What began as a way for Jesuits in formation to discuss racism and racial injustice quickly became a community of prayer […]
