Chris Lowney’s speech at the WUJA Congress 2013

Dear friends,   Throughout the first semester of 2022, WUJA (World Union of Jesuit Alumni) Youth Wing will undertake a virtual eco-pilgrimage to discuss the local and global challenges of climate change from an Ignatian perspective. The project is inspired by the EcoJesuit virtual pilgrimage, set up in preparation for COP26 last year. The WUJA´s…

Having learned of the news of the death of Fr. Henri Madelin, sj. from coronavirus on Wednesday, April 8, 2020, at the age of 83, WUJA offers its most sincere condolences to the Centre Sèvres, of which he was president from 1985 to 1991; to the magazine Etudes, of which he was editor-in-chief from 1995…

Dear Jesuit Alumni, dear Friends, As we celebrate today, the feast of the founder of the Jesuits Ignatius of Loyola, let me bring you back in time. The 31st of July 1973 was no ordinary feast of Saint-Ignatius for the Society of Jesus, but no one at that time could imagine that the two events…

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 friends jesuit alumni Let us unite and express our feelings of respect, unity and condolence for the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI . Let us transmit our prayers for his person and the desire for love and solidarity among all populations. Best regards Francisco Guarner President of WUJA   2.14.0.0

On June 10, the premiere took place of the ‘Mass for pope Francis at the occasion of the bicentennial of the restoration of the Society of Jesus’. This mass was specially composed by an illustrious Alumnus of the Jesuits of the Istituto Massimo in Rome: Ennio Morricone. The maestro directed himself the orchestra and two…