Fr Mitch Pacwa SJ, the host of “EWTN Live”, discusses at length the foundation and history of the Society of Jesus with Fr John Padberg SJ, noted historian and director of the Institute of Jesuit Sources based in Saint Louis, USA.
The segment, which runs almost an hour, features many titbits of Jesuit history such as:
Fr Patxi Álvarez de los Mozos SJ, secretary of Social Justice & Ecology for the Society of Jesus, explains the intertwined nature of working for social justice with a connection to ecological issues during this video interview he conducted with National Jesuit News during his visit from his headquarters in Rome to the United States. Fr de los Mozos encourages Jesuits and their partners to work toward justice, peace and environmental care worldwide.
Beginning in April 2011, Loyola Vietnam Centre will inaugurate on an annual basis at least one medical rotation in Ho Chi Minh City for fourth year students of Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine. A team of three students will serve in Infectious Diseases at the Hospital of Tropical Disease and two students will serve rotations in Trauma Care at the Trauma and Orthopaed
“The Malatesta Program is envisioned as a person-to-person exchange based on Fr. Ricci's model of establishing friendships among Chinese and American scholars, and providing opportunities for intellectual and cultural exchange through lectures, academic conferences, and joint research and publications. The objective of the program is to promote academic collaboration through an exchange between faculty and graduate students at the three California Jesuit universities and those at selected Chinese universities.” wrote John P. McGarry, Provincial of California.
Fr Gerry O’Collins (ASL) writes: The story of my 54th book, Seek God Everywhere (New York: Doubleday) seems worth telling. In late 1975 at his Sadhana Institute (near Pune), Fr Tony de Mello SJ ran a course on the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius for seven Jesuit priests and seven religious sisters. Two or three times a week he gave hour-long talks that were taped. Several members of the group then typed out the talks and gave the others a carbon copy. Thirty years later one of the group made his copy available to me and two American Jesuits.
CHICAGO, November 2, 2009 In October, as part of its formal partnership with the Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training, Loyola University Chicago jointly developed and conducted a University Management Training (UMT) program with Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCMC) to provide leaders of Vietnamese universities the opportunity to learn about best practices in U.S. higher education and to evaluate their applicability to the Vietnamese higher-education setting.
The Institute of Jesuit Sources has produced a one-volume collection of the decrees and the accompanying documents from the five congregations of GC31-35.
Fr Bob McTeigue, tertian from Maryland Province, left on November 26 for Yangon, where he will be working at the Language Institute and at the Major Seminary, until the end of March 2007, when he returns to the USA to complete his tertianship.