Fr. Carter taught historical theology at Woodstock College, engaged in social ministry, and practiced psychotherapy.

Fr. Braun worked in the Jesuit Seminary and Mission Bureau in New York City and taught and served as a minister of Jesuit communities in the Philippine Province.

Fr.  McKeough was a marine biologist and taught at Xavier University, Cagayan, for 51 years; most recently he was a member of the campus ministry staff.  The McKeough Marine Biology Center at Xavier University is named in his honor.

Brothers,

Late yesterday we received a report from Chilean Provincial, Eugenio Valenzuela, S.J., about the situation of
our brother Jesuits and our works in Chile. The major points are the following:

There were no Jesuit deaths or injuries and to date there is no news of Jesuit family members, close colleagues or students who have died.

The area around Concepción still has very poor communication, so information from there is still sketchy.

Hogar de Cristo is working with the National Emergency Office (Their FEMA) in the collection of food, blankets, diapers and charcoal throughout the country.

Un Techo para Chile (“A Roof for Chile”), in coordination with the Colegios, Christian Life Communties, the Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Infocap (The University of the Worker) is working with volunteers to clear rubble, accompany those affected by home loss, reconstruction of houses and probably the raising of “mediaguas,” very simple one room houses of plywood.

Practically all of the Jesuit houses and schools have suffered some damage, ranging from minor plaster and stucco damage, loss of computer equipment and church appointments to major infrastructural damage to some buildings.

Many have asked us how they might contribute to the relief work of the Society and its works there. The Maryland Province can accept funds and channel them directly to Chile through the Chilean Province.

Gifts in support of the Chile earthquake victims may be directed to the Maryland Province Jesuits; attention “Chile Relief Fund.”

Please make checks payable to “Maryland Province Jesuits Fund” and mail them to:

Maryland Province Jesuits Fund
P.O. Box 64818 Baltimore, MD 21264
Write the notation “Chile Relief Fund” on your check.

Contributions also can be made on-line at the Maryland Province website www.mdsj.org. Click on “Chile Relief Fund” (upper right of the Home Page).

Please feel free to share this Chile update as you see fit.
Fraternally in the Lord,

James M. Shea, S.J.
Provincial

Born in Osaka, Japan, on July 25, 1949, Ignatius attended elementary and secondary schools in his home town. After his conversion to Christianity he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in theology and a certificate in Library Science before entering the novitiate in Hiroshima, Japan, on April 2, 1973.

As a Jesuit he studied philosophy and theology at Sophia University in Tokyo. His regency was split between teaching in a high school, working as an assistant librarian at Sophia University and doing work with Vietnamese refugees. He was ordained in the Cathedral of Nagasaki on February 25, 1981 by Pope John Paul II.

After completing tertianship in the Philippines in 1983, Ignatius came to the United States and worked for a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. During the two years he was there he also did pastoral ministry with the Japanese community in the Bay Area.

In 1986 he returned to Sophia University to teach and work as the reference librarian until 1990. During this time in Tokyo he pronounced his final vows. He then went to the Missouri Province to work at Regis University in its new relationship with Teikyo Loretto Heights University. Two years later he was called to Rome to work in the Gregorian University.

Next he returned to Japan as a consultant for the library of the Tokyo Catholic Major Seminary, and then he want back to the Missouri Province where he was hired as an associate professor and serial librarian at Saint Louis University transcribing to the Missouri Province in 1987. During his years at the university he worked hard to get a backlog of books accessioned and cataloged. At one point he spent time in Taiwan to learn ways of cataloging books in Chinese which led to an assignment as director of the library of the Ricci Institute in Macau in 2004.

He spent the final six years of his life applied to the China Province working in the province library and archives.

He entered the Society of Jesus at Sacred Heart Novitiate in Los Gatos, California, in 1951. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1965.

In 1969, he was named President of Loyola Marymount University. In 1984, he moved from the president’s office to the position of Chancellor, continuing his work as a fund-raiser until 2002.

The next phase of his ministry took place in Honolulu, where he was assigned as coordinator for Hispanic ministry for the diocese, a post he held until 2005. He spent the next years in part-time parish and prison ministry and working with the homeless. In 2008, he retired to Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos.

The Mass of Christian Burial is scheduled for noon, Tuesday, March 9, in Sacred Heart Chapel at Loyola Marymount University, One LMU Drive, in Los Angeles.