Chris Lowney’s speech at the WUJA Congress 2013

As you know, the 5th of February each year is the day chosen for the launch of the Pedro Arrupe World Association’s Arrupe Dollar (or in Europe, the Arrupe Euro) campaign.   5 February 2016, the anniversary of the death of Father Pedro Arrupe, will thus be the launch date for the new campaign, the…

It is with great sadness and deep emotion that WUJA learns and shares with you the news of the death of Father Adolfo Nicolás, SJ, on Wednesday 20 May, at the age of 84. The former Superior General of the Society of Jesus was very close to the youth, as a teacher of young novices…

Dear Alumna, dear Alumnus,   Christmas is for us Christians, but also for other people, an occasion of great rejoicing and deep hope. We have a joyful heart to see the child in the manger in Bethlehem. And for us adults, we recall memories of our own childhood, when we watched in wonder the figures…

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…

Chris Lowney, a writer and lecturer on leadership and various subjects related to the Church and the Society of Jesus, is a long-time friend of WUJA. He recently published “Everyone leads – How to Revitalize the Catholic Church”. The Catholic Church is suffering its worst decline in five centuries—a precipitous slide that will turn catastrophic…

The European Confederation of Jesuit Alumni is organizing the European Encounters of Jesuit Alumni in asociation with the Jesuit Refugee Service. The event, which will be held in Rome between september 14th  and 16th 2016 will center on the subject of the Global Migration and Refugee Crisis: Time to Contemplate and Act. Those who attend the Encounters…