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 […]
Help and Hope at the Southern Border
Update Dec. 29, 2022: See Fr. Rafael Garcia, SJ, interview on CNN By Ignatius Plato Dec. 21, 2022 – Sacred Heart Church, the Jesuit parish in El Paso, Texas, has for years served as a beacon of hope for immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Recently, the parish has opened its doors to the flood of […]
Five Years after Hurricane Maria: Recalling the Impact on Puerto Rico
By Therese Fink Meyerhoff “Since Maria …” It’s a phrase one hears often when talking to people on Puerto Rico, much like “before Katrina” when speaking to New Orleanians. Life on Puerto Rico is marked as “before Maria” and “since Maria,” referring to the Category 4 hurricane that struck the island on Sept. 20, 2017. […]
The Church’s Consistent Ethic of Life: The “Narrow Door”
By Rafael Garcia, SJ In the synagogue of Nazareth, Jesus proclaims his “mission statement”: The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed […]
Protecting the Least Among Us: Jesuit Statement on Abortion
As the nation awaits a new ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court regarding abortion, the Jesuits USA Central and Southern Province recommits to Catholic Church teaching on abortion and reaffirms our commitment to respecting all human life. In 2018, the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States issued a statement on Jesuits’ support for […]
