The Never-ending Mystery of the Cross
Wendell D’Cruz, SJ
In the film The Agony and the Ecstasy Pope Julius II (Rex Harrison) repeatedly asks Michelangelo (Charlton Heston), “When will you make an end of it?” to which the constant reply is, “When I am finished.” The resident staff here in the communities where we stay, Jesuits back home, even the delegates themselves, are asking, […]
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Global Collaboration for Global Challenges: Structures and Networks Beyond Provinces
Collaboration in the Society of Jesus can be understood in different ways. Often we refer to collaboration with others, with companions, with collaborators or—in general—with those with whom we share responsibility in mission. But in other instances we speak of the necessary collaboration as the Society of Jesus between our own organisations and governance structures […]
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Creation of a new Province
At the beginning of the morning session, Thursday, November 10, Father General announced that during the first months of 2017 a new Province will be created: the Province of French Speaking Western Europe (EOF). It will replace the Province of Southern Belgium and Luxemburg and the Province of France. The Provincial will be Fr. François […]
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Under the same banner – By Paulin Manwelo, SJ
What has touched me the most (in the sense of challenging me) at this 36th General Congregation, as a Jesuit from the Central African Province (ACE)? Firstly, a few words on the Central African Province. It is made up of two countries: Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Jesuits arrived in Angola […]
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Communitas ad dispersionem
“In their own communal apostolic discernment which led to the founding of the Society, Ignatius and his companions saw this as their unique call, their charism: to choose to be with Christ as servants of His mission, to be with people where they dwell and work and struggle, to bring the Gospel into their lives […]
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