New Executive Committee of the World Union

Dear Alumnae and Alumni, I wish you all a Merry Christmas! We celebrate Christmas and its rejoicing, its hope for Peace on our war-torn planet. We celebrate it under the form of a fragile and innocent newborn, as we all know that fragility can subvert force and innocence can disarm violence. Let’s get ourselves wrapped…

The upscale Canisius College celebrated its 90th birthday in 2017. This event offered us an occasion to meet this Jesuit College situated in the heart of Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. Agnes Anya went back last November on this anniversary for The Jakarta Post, interviewing both a 12th grade student and a Jesuit teacher….

My name is Frank Brady and I want to invite you to an amazing event next year in the United States.   The World Union of Jesuit Alumni will be hosting its World Congress in Cleveland, Ohio from June 28-July 2.  Jesuit alumni and friends from around the world will be gathering for this amazing…

Pedro Arrupe World Association February 2015 For the Pedro Arrupe World Association, 2014 was a transitional year pending a greater involvement in Haiti on a proposal from the World Union’s President (in collaboration with a Belgian foundation) which did not materialise during 2014. It therefore limited itself to its continued financial commitment to a scholarship…

Expelled from several countries in the second half of the eighteenth century, they had been suppressed in the whole world in 1773. During the suppression and after the restoration, the Jesuits have shown tremendous resilience, first through surviving in different places, especially in Russia, then reorganizing themselves as of 1814 with surprising dynamics, made of…

Dear Alumna, dear Alumnus, 2016 was a year of Generals, three Generals of the Society of Jesus. The first went from office after eight years at the helm of the Society. Adolfo Nicolas had become Præpositus generalis in 2008, succeeding Father Kolvenbach. He resigned at the last General Congregation (the 36th), on 3 October 2016….