Barcelona’s San Ignacio College, at the heart of the renowned Sarriá quarter, hosted the 10th international congress of Jesuit alumni from the 13th to the 17th of July 2022 in true Spanish style for the benefit of its international attendees. With Jimmy Burns, David Hurst and Juan N. Garcia-Nieto we represented Stonyhurst amongst a cohort…
The 10th World Union of Jesuit Alumni/ae Congress was held in Barcelona, Spain at Sant Ignasi School, Sarria from 13 – 17 July 2022. The link to the program is www.jesuitsalumnibcn2022.org. Here you will find the program content, activities and presentations. Key themes addressed at the Congress were Education, Ecology, Spirituality, Migration and Women. For…
A testimony about the Barcelona Congress by a group of Portuguese alumni Earlier this year, the Association presented the Youth Wing with a rather irresistible proposal. A trip to Barcelona, on behalf of our Association, in order to meet more people from Jesuit schools and universities around the world, share the reality of our association,…
We are at the gates of the celebration of the feast of St. Ignatius, our patron as alumni of Jesuit schools and universities and of the Ignatian family and communities. Let us be grateful this year in which we commemorate the conversion of Ignatius of Loyola, that person who 500 years ago saw a new…
Dear Father General, dear alumni, dear friends, I would like to wish you all an excellent Congress and already thank with all my heart those who organised it in very difficult circumstances. My first world congress was held in Loyola-Bilbao in 1991. And I was half my age. Today, in 2022, this is my seventh…
Jesuit alumni invited to be partners in the mission of reconciliation and justice in today’s world Speech of Arturo Sosa A., S.J. Superior General of the Society of Jesus Tenth Congress of the World Union of Jesuit Alumni/ae of the Society of Jesus (WUJA) Barcelona, Spain 14 July 2022 Download here [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”5″ gal_title=”WUJA 2022…
Fransisco Guarner is chairman of the organising committee of the 10th WUJA Congress, which will be held from 13th to 17th July in Barcelona. Francisco is an alumnus of College Sarriá San Ignacio, Barcelona and of ESADE University Business School and he’s active at all levels of the international movement of Jesuit Alumni (local association,…
Dear Alumnæ and Alumni, 2021 will be remembered as a year of our frailties. No, the pandemic was not defeated this year. Yes, climate change has continued to take its toll on the four corners of the globe. We have always been fragile, but without always admitting it to ourselves. The child in the crib…
Dear Alumnæ and Alumni, Christmas is a joy because it is the birth of a child, but also the birth of hope. This Christmas celebration at the end of the year 2020 takes on a special resonance because the year that is coming to an end was one of those that all of us, human…
Melissa Vida, a young freelance journalist who regularly writes for the Jesuit news site “America Magazine”, is talking to people across the Atlantic about the new Belgian school that the Jesuits founded last year in a district of the capital city of Belgium, Brussels, considered by some to be “difficult”. In Cureghem/Kuregem, the poorest district…