Today, May 11, we commemorate the death of Matteo Ricci, which occurred 410 years ago. If the efforts of Pope Francis – who had revealed that he was working on his beatification – are successful, then that date would be chosen as his feast day. In Brussels, Belgium, a new Jesuit establishment opened last year…
The United States is now the world’s most affected country by Covid-19 (at the time of writing these lines, there have been nearly 890,000 infections, more than 50,000 deaths and more than 85,000 recoveries). This inexorably focuses the eyes from all over the world to the way this unprecedented crisis is handled as well as…
The story of a man who drops out politics to enter the Jesuits After 8 years in politics, Cyrus Habib, Lieutenant Governor of Washington State, announce that he is not seeking reelection in order to join the Jesuit religious order. The “highest-ranking Iranian-American elected official”, having lost his eyesight at age 8 to a rare…
At a time when the epidemiological crisis we are going through obliges us to rethink our daily lives and forces us to adapt our communication, which can no longer be as warmly human as it once was, perhaps this is also an opportunity to reread Saint Ignatius and his precious advice, especially in terms of…
Or when the famous Jesuit motto: “Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam” (for a greater glory of God), often diminished in AMDG, is reviewed under the Star Wars slant. Indeed, the most cinema lovers among us do not ignore the fresh output of the 9th intergalactic saga opus (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), that fell in…
Magdalena Myszk, alumna of the High School of Gdynia, testifies for us about her time spent therein, a Jesuit school that is celebrating, this year, its 25th anniversary. Although its Jesuit priests were killed under the Second World War and its doors shut during the communist era, this high school of the little port town…
This Tuesday, February 5, we commemorate the 28th anniversary of the death of Pedro Arrupe, SJ. On this occasion, Rome will receive the cause for beatification and canonization of this former Superior General of the Society of Jesus who is now Servant of God. An edifying journey Not so well known by the general public,…
Dear Jesuit Alumni, Did you know that one of the earliest learned societies in the world was founded by a Jesuit? Since Fr. Jean Bolland, SJ, launched the publication of the great collection Acta Sanctorum (“Acts of the Saints”) in Antwerp (Belgium) in 1643, there has been up to now a team of highly qualified…
Maurice Selvais, an alumnus of the Saint-Michael college of Brussels, in Belgium, tell us his peregrinations in Gascony, where the great St. Ignacio is born. Maurice is a member of the Alumni Association of his college as well as a regular writer at WUJA’s service. Our trip begins in Pamplona, where we came the day…
“ Uniting our frontiers ” What a better way to begin the summertime than with the every-four-year WUJA congress? Established in Bilbao in 1956 with the aim of commemorating the 400th anniversary of Saint Ignatius of Loyola’s death – founder of the Society of Jesus and inspirer of the spirituality movement that bears his name…