Feb. 1, 2016 – On Mon., Jan. 25, Saint Ignatius School in the Bronx, N.Y., hosted a visit from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The focus of the Justice Sotomayor’s visit was to meet and speak with the students. Following a brief tour given by 8th grader Adolpho and 7th grader Cristal, Justice Sotomayor visited …
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By Mike Gabriele He was Time magazine’s person of the year in 2013 and has graced the covers of countless other periodicals, including purely secular publications such as Rolling Stone and People. Whether visiting the homeless, speaking on immigration and religious liberties, or spinning basketballs with the Harlem Globetrotters, our Jesuit pontiff has made an …
By Mike Gabriele It isn’t often that we’re blessed with once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. When they do present themselves, we often stop to think how we can best capitalize on that extraordinary and unique moment in time. In October of 2014, when Jesuit scholastic Adam Rosinski, SJ, a teacher and campus minister at St. Joseph’s Prep in …
By PJ Williams On a sweltering September day in 1965, a gathering of over 500 students, faculty members, administrators and members of the press, assembled in Dinneen Auditorium in Saint Peter’s College (now University) in Jersey City to hear a Baptist minister from Georgia talk about his vision for America’s future. He was working toward …
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By Sherri Weil There are few among us who haven’t heard of the Beatles, immortalized as a cultural icon of the ’60s. In fact, it’s hard to believe that a mere 50 years has passed since their debut on American television. But for those of us who grew up during that time, recent media attention …
The below article was adapted from the Summer 2014 issue of JESUITS magazine, a joint work of the then Maryland, New England and New York Jesuit Provinces. To read the full issue online, click here. August 15, 2014 – In his desk drawer at the New York Province offices on 83rd Street, Fr. James Keenan, SJ, …
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Society of Jesus Celebrates First Ordinations since Election of Jesuit Pope. Three months after the historic election of the first Jesuit Pope, the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), the largest order of priests and brothers in the Roman Catholic Church, ordained 16 new priests in June in the United States.