In February 2020, my brother Jesuits and I returned home to our novitiate in St. Paul, Minn., after spending 30 days in silence. We had completed the Spiritual Exercises and were to spend the ...

A major contribution of the Council of Trent was the seminary system, whereby young men were trained to become priests through specialized courses in public speaking, philosophy, and theology. (Before ...

The Jesuits are active around the world, and its 17,000 members (across six continents and 124 countries) makes it the largest religious order in the Catholic Church. Jesuits work in parish and ...

The Catholic Church may be on the verge of a new era of laity-supported engagement and encounter as it enters the third decade of the new millennium. So says educator, author and longtime Vatican ...

Jesuit Fr. Pedro Arrupe, who died in 1991, is a revered figure among many Catholics for leading the Society of Jesus during a transformative time in church history and for steering the Jesuit order ...

Speaking at a campus forum on Jesuit and Catholic education, University President William P. Leahy, S.J., extolled the far-reaching vision of Jesuit founder Saint Ignatius of Loyola that continues to ...