Father General’s address to the Alumni in Medellin

From 10 to 12 February 2023, the Indian Federation of Jesuit Alumni Associations held its congress in the city of Patna. This major event was attended by nearly 250 participants, including 50 Jesuits. On the side-lines of the event, the WUJA Council held its first physical meeting since its election at the Barcelona Congress in…

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…

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…

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….

We are only a couple of weeks away from the World Union of Jesuit Alumni Congress 2017. As you know, the Congress is being held for the first time in the United States.  Based on my limited math skills, that’s not likely to happen again for at least 20 to 25 years. My prayer daily…

On this day of the feast of St. Ignatius, we unite in the joy to all the Jesuits in the world to tell them our gratitude to know them. We think particularly of two of them: Jorge Mario Bergoglio, our pope, and Paolo Dall’Oglio, detained for two years in Syria. May the Jesuit Alumni give…