Pope Francis has named Jesuit Father Michael Barber, 58, a member of the California Province Jesuits and director of spiritual formation at St. John’s Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, as bishop of Oakland, California. The appointment....
Jesuit-founded St. Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School, located in the slum of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, is taking an uncommon approach to serving those in need: the school enrolls only HIV/AIDS orphans, giving them a free....
Jesuit Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian of Shanghai, a prominent figure in the Chinese Catholic Church, died April 27 of pancreatic cancer. He was 96. “Bishop Jin was a towering figure in the history of the....
The Ignatian Solidarity Network (ISN) has named Sr. Helen Prejean, C.S.J., as the “Robert M. Holstein: Faith that Does Justice” award winner this year. Sr. Prejean, an internationally-recognized advocate against the death penalty, will receive....
Jesuit Father Joseph Costantino has been appointed as the new president of Canisius High School, in Buffalo, N.Y., beginning July 1. Fr. Costantino is returning to the site of his first assignment as a Jesuit....
“G-DOG,” a documentary about Jesuit Father Greg Boyle and Homeboy Industries, will make its theatrical debut today in Los Angeles. Written and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Freida Mock, “G-DOG” tells the entertaining and unlikely....
This month marks the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala., is holding events throughout the spring to commemorate the famed letter, which....
Jesuit Father Fred Enman became a Jesuit because of a calling within his calling. When he realized during college that he wanted to be a priest and practice poverty law, he says, “It became clear....
The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., kicks off “The Jesuits and Globalization” initiative this month. The three-year project will bring together leading scholars to explore Jesuit....
The U.S. Jesuit Conference and the Kino Border Initiative welcome today’s introduction of a bipartisan Senate immigration bill. Immigration reform has been a difficult issue to address, and this bill provides hope that an immigration....
