By Eric A. Clayton “A writer wants a book to be complete.” So reflects Jon M. Sweeney, author of the new book “James Martin, SJ: In the Company of Jesus” — a biography of a man whose story is still very much ongoing. It was a welcome challenge, Sweeney notes, to tackle the life and legacy of …
Jan. 8, 2020 – Fr. Jeffrey P. Baerwald, SJ (UNE) died Friday, January 3, 2020 at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California. He was born on May 7, 1957 in St. Paul, Minnesota, entered the Society of Jesus on August 20, 1983 in Syracuse, New York, and was ordained June 10, 1989 …
Dec. 26, 2019 – Fr. Thomas V. O’Connor, SJ, was called to eternal life on December 23, 2019. Fr. O’Connor died at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, N.Y. He was born on May 6, 1932 in Brooklyn, N.Y., entered the Society of Jesus at St. Andrew-on-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on September 7, 1950, and was ordained …
Dec. 26, 2019 – Fr. Daniel J. Lusch, SJ, died peacefully on December 20, 2019, around 6:40 PM at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, in Burlington, Mass. He was 86 years old. May he now be welcomed into eternal life. Fr. Dan Lusch, SJ, was born on Dec. 16, 1933, in Stamford, Conn. He and …
On June 8, 2019, five Jesuits from the Maryland and USA Northeast Provinces ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Joseph Tobin, Archbishop of Newark.
Nov. 25, 2019 – Fr. Daniel J. Sullivan, SJ, was called to eternal life on November 22, 2019. Fr. Sullivan died at Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, N.Y. He was born on April 22, 1928, in Queens, N.Y., entered the Society of Jesus at St. Andrew-on-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on August 14, 1950, and was ordained on July …
With great joy and gratitude, Jesuits West welcomed new novices who entered the Society of Jesus at The Jesuit Novitiate of the Three Companions in Culver City, Calif., on August 20.
Nov. 6, 2019 – On October 19 and 20, hundreds of Jesuit-educated alumni and friends of the Society gathered at 23 parishes and schools for the fifth annual Jesuit Friends and Alumni Sunday Masses. Jesuit Alumni Sunday was started as a way of bringing together alumni of Jesuit schools and friends of the Jesuits across …
Nov. 4, 2019 – Fr. Gabriel Simon Harak, SJ, was born on April 15th, 1948, in Derby, Conn., a small city west of New Haven, where the Naugatuck River flows into the Housatonic. He liked to quote lines of verse about his birthplace (which had an iron foundry and metal industries): Derby, thou whose brazen …
Oct. 31, 2019 – Francis Alfred Sullivan was born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston on May 21st, 1922, the second of four sons of George and Bessie (Peterson) Sullivan. The family moved to Dorchester and then to West Roxbury, where Fr. Sullivan grew up. He attended local public schools—though, as he said, most …