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by Kaitlyn McCarthy

The author Mark Twain once said, “His-tory doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

While this may not have been the offi-cial theme of the “History of Jesuits Com-ing to North America Institute”, it couldhave aptly served as one. Organized by theNational Jesuit Brothers Committee, theInstitute, held over four days at Santa ClaraUniversity, illustrated a contrast; both thecommonalities and the differences withinthe Society’s North American history.

Common themes such as missionaryspirit, the frontiers and adaptation to localcultures were threaded throughout thetalks, but the specific applications were var-

ied and unique. The historical tales andthemes ‘rhymed’with the challenges Jesuitsface today, but the frontiers in which theywork now are very different.

The presentations were geographicallysegmented, and often illustrated by focus-ing either on specific Jesuits and theirworks or particular missions within theregion.

Fr. Raymond Schroth (NYK), in hisoverview of Jesuits Coming to North Amer-ica, shared with attendees the missionaryoutreach techniques of Fr. Eusebio Fran-cisco Kino, and how Kino both earned thetrust of the indigenous peoples andimproved their lives.

“Kino developed the stock raising

industry we know today, not just for Jesuitprofit,” commented Schroth, “but to helpthe local people to eat and learn a trade.Hewas a tough, but humble man. He wouldweep while reading the breviary, he wouldangrily reprimand sinners, but absorb allcriticism of himself. Sometimes he wouldspend the night in the chapel and have him-self whipped.He would take his food with-out salt or seasoning so that it would tastebad, he took no tobacco, no snuff, and nowine. He slept not in a bed, but on a horseblanket with his saddle for a pillow. Sickwith a fever for days, he would get up onlyto say Mass, then go back to bed.”

3 CommentaryCrisis in Catholic-Jewishdialogue

5MinistriesSchool in Sudan offers renewedhope

8 OrdinationsSixteen men ordained topriesthood

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by Mark Mossa, SJ

For four days in June, Santa Clara Uni-versity experienced a rather unique kind ofJesuit presence. About 200 “middle gener-ation” Jesuits braved the near perfect weath-er for an experience of fraternity andlooking toward the future. These “keepersof the fire,” invoking the words of the recentGeneral Congregation, gathered from all theU.S. provinces, and a few others, to reflecton the call of Christ as experienced indi-vidually, and as brothers in the Society ofJesus.

The attendees represented various apos-tolates and generations within the Society.The youngest in religious life, although notalways the youngest in age, were the mostrecently formed brothers, and those whohad been ordained only a year. Othersbrought the wisdom of having been Jesuitsfor more than thirty years. All brought theirexperience of having spent a significantportion of their adult life as Jesuits, no mat-ter their ages.

Jesuit Conference President Fr. TomSmolich (CFN) kicked things off with akeynote address on Wednesday night, shar-ing the unexpected turns, and resulting con-solations, of his Jesuit life up to now. Hesurprised some by stating his belief that,based on his experience, being Provincialis “the best job in the Society.” He empha-sized the privilege of getting to know so

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by Ruth Langer

What does it mean to be excommunicatedand for excommunication to be withdrawn? Aconversation in my Boston College classroomlast spring revealed that Catholic undergradu-ates can’t answer these questions. To one stu-dent, excommunication meant eviction fromthe Church and effectively undoing one’s bap-tism. The student had no understanding thatbaptism is permanent, that excommunication,literally being outside the communion, is cen-sure by exclusion from the sacraments -- withthe exception of reconciliation, the path to read-mission to communion.

If Catholics don’t understand excommuni-cation, then it is even less likely that Jews do. Itis precisely this lack of understanding that ledto a recent crisis in Catholic-Jewish relations.On January 21, 2009, Pope Benedict remittedthe excommunication of four bishops of theSociety of St. Pius X, recognizing their penitentdesire to accept the papal authority that theyhad rejected by receiving unapproved ordina-tion from Archbishop Lefebvre as bishops.

The Jewish world heard “excommunicationwithdrawn,” and “restored to communion” andpresumed that the Vatican was expressing offi-cially that it approved the teachings of these bish-ops, which include refutation of the teachingsof Vatican II, especially about Jews and Judaism.In addition, one bishop, Richard Williamson,had been recorded on Swedish television onlythe previous week stating, “Between 200,000and 300,000 Jews perished in Nazi concentra-tion camps, but not one of them by gassing in agas chamber.” How could a Holocaust denier bereconciled with the Church? Could one deny theHolocaust and be a good Catholic? Jewishgroups raised their voices in protest; the Italianrabbis, the Israeli rabbis, and others broke offdialogues with the Vatican.

Relatively quickly, on February 4, the Vati-can’s Secretary of State clarified that this remis-sion was only an initial step, and without fullacceptance of the teachings of the Second Vat-ican Council and all popes since then, includ-ing Bishop Williamson’s full retraction of hisHolocaust denial, there could not be full inte-gration into the Church. Pope Benedict XVI,addressing Jewish leaders on February 12,expressly reaffirmed Catholic commitment to

both Nostra aetate and to Holocaust memory.His explanatory letter to Catholic bishops onMarch 10 reiterated these points. The Vaticanstatements succeeded in drawing official Jew-ish groups back into dialogue, but unfortunately,news outlets barely acknowledged the com-plexities. The issue remained alive throughoutthe spring.

Why? One factor, certainly, is that this affairtaps into a fundamental insecurity in the Jew-ish community. Is the radical transformation inCatholic teaching about Jews and Judaism per-manent? What is the implication of statements,like that in the Pope’s March letter to the bish-ops, that assert that “…some of those who putthemselves forward as great defenders of theCouncil also need to be reminded that VaticanII embraces the entire doctrinal history of theChurch. Anyone who wishes to be obedient tothe [Second Vatican] Council has to accept thefaith professed over the centuries, and cannotsever the roots from which the tree draws itslife.” That pre-conciliar faith was supersession-ist and left no theological space for the ongoingvalidity of Judaism. The consequences includ-ed a popular anti-Semitism that expressed itselfregularly in violence. Does the Church’s newthinking about Jews and Judaism find coherentexpression in all its teachings, or does it findvoice only in official and perhaps superficial dis-avowals of anti-Semitism?

The Williamson affair followed the Pope’s2007 permission for wider use of the 1962 Tri-dentine rite with its Good Friday prayer for theconversion of the Jews. In February 2008, thePope personally revised this text, removing itsoffensive references to Jews as having veiledhearts, being blind and in darkness, but itremained a prayer that Jews come to acceptChrist. To Jews, this communicates that, in theeyes of the Church, Judaism is deficient. Even-tually, there was official clarification throughCardinals Kasper and Bertone, that this prayer“is not intended to promote proselytism to Jews,… and it opens up an eschatological perspec-tive. Christians, however, cannot but bear wit-ness to their faith, … and this leads them also topray that all will come to recognize Christ.” Thisperhaps answers the immediate practical prob-lem of coexistence, but not the deeper questionof theological respect.

Jewish concerns only deepened on June 18,

when the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishopsissued A Note on Ambiguities Contained inCovenant and Mission. In 2002, the USCCBDialogue with the National Council of Syna-gogues had issued a joint text, Reflections onCovenant and Mission. The Catholic section ofthis document, drawing carefully on post-Nos-tra aetate teachings, explored the consequencesof the new teaching of the enduring validity ofGod’s covenant with Israel for traditional under-standings of Christian mission. It suggested thata Catholic conversionary mission to the Jewswas no longer appropriate, and that evange-lization could be expressed by bearing witnessto one’s own faith in dialogic encounters. Now,seven years later, the Bishops’ Committees onDoctrine and on Ecumenical and InterreligiousAffairs released a criticism of the text and a clar-ification of doctrine. To Jewish eyes, the mostimportant point in the Note is its insistence thatproclamation and invitation to baptism mustbe core elements of interreligious dialoguebecause Judaism is inherently deficient. WhenJews hear “proclamation,” they recall pre-Vati-can II Catholic attitudes that led to forcedinstruction and other violent behavior. “Invi-tation to baptism” recalls days when the Churchactively sought Jewish converts, encouragingrebellious teenagers to snub their parents by

converting or victims of economic anti-Semi-tism to end their woes. These sorts of intentionsundermine the trust necessary to the dialogicencounter. On August 18 a coalition repre-senting Jews from across the religious spectrumissued a statement that objects in no uncertainterms to participation in dialogue that involveseven an implicit invitation to baptism. It alsoexpresses profound disappointment with thedocuments disavowal of the ongoing validity ofGod’s covenant with Jews and deep concernabout the future of dialogue under these con-ditions.

This spring’s public crisis was only under-scored by this somewhat quieter and theologi-cally more sophisticated crisis this summer. Thata very similar set of discussions has been occur-ring in recent months in Germany makes it evenmore alarming. While this spring’s crisis includ-ed simple elements of miscommunication, boththe spring and the summer’s events point to adesperate need for Catholics and Jews of goodwill to search for theologically authentic pathsto express and teach coherently and consistent-ly the legitimacy of the other before God.

Ruth Langer is Associate Professor of JewishStudies, Theology Department; and AssociateDirector, Center for Christian-Jewish Learning,both at Boston College.

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Interreligious Dialogue

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by John Borelli

NJN has provided a superb service,especially sympathetic to the Society’sobligation to interreligious dialogue. “Ourmission of faith and justice, dialogue ofreligions and cultures has acquireddimensions that no longer allow us toconceive of the world as composed ofseparate entities; we must see it as a uni-fied whole in which we depend on oneanother.” This GC 35 consensus appliesin principle to all Jesuit works and to allwho carry the Ignatian charism.

Through a regular column, Jesuitsand their collaborators have addressedan array of topics under “Jesuits andInterreligious Dialogue.” Almost 50articles, these columns and specialarticles, in the past six years are pre-

served on the website, Jesuit Interre-ligious Dialogue and Mission(http://groups.creighton.edu/sjdialogue/). If you forget, search “Jesuit interreligiousdialogue” and you will quickly find ourwebsite at Creighton University, thanksto Ray Bucko.

There the work continues in earnestto accommodate the shift from print toelectronic media. We will make the web-site an even better resource for pastors,professors, high school educators, stu-dents, Jesuits and collaborators and allwho seek what may well be the guidingfeature of this century—interreligiousunderstanding.

John Borelli, Georgetown University, isnational coordinator for interreligious dia-logue and relations for the Jesuit Confer-ence.

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by Susan Branda Martin

Fifty years after the founding of the firstJesuit school in the city of Houston, the Jesuitsand their lay collaborators are poised to onceagain found another school in the same citywith a focus on getting the poorest and most-at-risk children of Houston ready for college.Cristo Rey Jesuit College Preparatory Schoolof Houston, the first co-educational schoolsponsored by the Jesuits of the New OrleansProvince, opened its doors to 100 freshmenon August 10, 2009. Its inaugural class ofyoung men and women will participate in oneof the most exciting educational models in thecountry - the Cristo Rey Network that consistsof 23 schools across the nation.

History of the Cristo Rey Network

The genesis of the Cristo Rey Networkbegan more than a decade ago in Chicago’sLittle Pilsen neighborhood, a low-income arealargely populated by Mexican immigrants.The Cristo Rey model, the brainchild of Fr.John Foley, SJ and his Jesuit and lay colleagues,emerged from the realization that the expenseof a Jesuit college preparatory education wasprohibitive to economically disadvantagedfamilies living in this Chicago barrio.

Fr. Foley and his team turned to corpora-tions around the city for help and asked themto provide entry-level corporate jobs for hisstudents whose salaries would in turn helppay for the cost of their tuition. Fr. Foley andhis team developed and pioneered an eco-nomic and educational program that wouldbe accessible to the poorest families in the city.The result was the innovative Corporate InternProgram, sometimes referred to as the Cor-porate Work-Study Program.

The Corporate Work-Study Programallows students to earn approximately 70 per-cent of their tuition by working for corpora-tions one day per week. The students gainfirst-hand knowledge of the professional, cor-porate world while also attending a schoolwhich will provide them with the educationand critical thinking skills needed to performwell in college and eventually in a career. Thestudents are not the only ones to benefit; thesponsors add to their workforce a group ofeager, enthusiastic students working at areduced cost. In addition, the sponsors gainthe satisfaction of knowing that they havehelped to break the cycles of poverty.

There are currently 23 schools in theCristo Rey Network, with Cristo Rey Jesuit inHouston being its newest member. The net-work has more than 1,250 corporate work-study sponsors that employ more than 5,000

students. Over 99 percent of the students whograduate from Cristo Rey schools have beenaccepted into two and four year colleges,including Georgetown University, Loyola Uni-versity and Brown University.

The Beginnings of Cristo Rey Jesuit

Cristo Rey Jesuit in Houston was made areality when the Jesuits of the New OrleansProvince decided they wanted to support theopening of a Cristo Rey model school in theirregion. They identified several potential cities,including Houston. Advisory groups wereformed in each city to conduct feasibility stud-ies to identify lower income communities, thelevel of student and parent interest in a col-lege prep education with a work-study com-ponent and the level of corporate supportnecessary to sustain the school.

In 2006, the Houston advisory group wasformed. They conducted the feasibility studywhere they first identified the neighborhoodsthat fell within the income bracket. Duringthe study more than 1,300 interviews wereconducted with middle school students andtheir families in those identified neighbor-hoods. The study confirmed the need and thedesire of the families for a Jesuit collegepreparatory school. The advisory committeethen began to present the Cristo Rey story toindividuals and representatives of companiesthroughout Houston asking for their support.Over 30 companies signed letters of intent toprovide jobs to the first class of students. Theadvisory committee also secured over $2 mil-lion in donations, grants and pledges, withnine major foundations committing financialsupport for the school.

Having proven the great need and com-munity support for a Cristo Rey school inHouston, the Jesuits of the New OrleansProvince approved Houston as the home ofthe next Cristo Rey school - Cristo Rey JesuitCollege Preparatory School of Houston.

To watch a video from News2Houston onthe opening of Cristo Rey Jesuit, click on thepicture below.

Creating Cristo Rey Jesuit withCommunity Support

Cristo Rey Jesuit, located in southeastHouston, near Hobby Airport, is in the midstof a very busy start-up year. With the nam-ing of the school’s founding president, Fr.Antonio, “T.J.”, Martinez, SJ the plans for theschool began immediately. After havingreceived an undergraduate degree at BostonCollege, Fr. Martinez finished with five grad-uate degrees, including a law degree from theUniversity of Texas and a graduate degree inschool leadership and administration fromHarvard University.

Once Martinez arrived in Houston, hequickly went to work with the advisory boardand negotiated the purchase of an old educa-tional facility on the nearly nine acre piece ofproperty in one of the poorest neighborhoodsin Houston. The inaugural Board of Trusteeswas next named, meeting continuously sinceDecember 2007. At this initial meeting, the

Board approved the funding for moderate ren-ovations of the purchased facility which willprovide a safe, competitive and supportivelearning environment. Fretz Construction isgenerously managing these renovations on apro bono basis.

Martinez set out to find experts in the fieldto comprise his founding senior administra-tive leadership team. He first hired Dr. Cather-ine Thomas as the principal. Dr. Thomasbrings 20 years of experience to the job andcurrently heads the admissions and facultyrecruitment campaigns.

“Any president, young or old, experiencedor new, would be envious for the experienceand dedication my leadership team brings toour mission,” Martinez said. “I went after thebest and with God’s grace, I got it.”

At an event in March, the school unveiledits logo and crest at a cocktail reception for allof its donors, corporate sponsors and themany volunteers who have become involvedover the past few months. BrandExtract LLC,a branding and marketing company in Hous-ton, generously devoted their time to developnot only the school’s logo and crest, but theentire branding campaign.

Since the March event, many more peoplein the community have stepped forward tooffer their services to the start up of CristoRey Jesuit. The school has received in-kinddonations that have helped in all aspects ofthe opening. The National Terrazzo Tile andMarble Company owner, Victor Longo, donat-ed the installation of the new school crest inthe entrance making an impressive and col-orful impact to all visitors. All school fur-nishing have been donated by individuals andcompanies throughout Houston. Strake JesuitCollege Preparatory, the first Houston Jesuithigh school, has been extremely generous intheir support of their new brother school andthe Cristo Rey Jesuit Women’s Guild, a volun-teer group from all over the city, help byanswering phones, making copies, updatingmailing lists, stuffing envelopes and organiz-ing events.

Securing Business Support

The Houston business community hasgiven a strong message of support to CristoRey Jesuit’s Corporate Intern Program model.

The school has 25 employment contractssigned by companies that represent Houston’sdiverse employment industry. The responsehas been so positive that the school had todevelop a “2010-2011 wait list” made up ofcompanies eager to be Corporate Work-StudySponsors. Three Houston universities, RiceUniversity, University of St. Thomas and Uni-versity of Houston, are partnering with theCorporate Work-Study Training Camp, amandatory 4-week camp created to preparethe students to be successful in their entry-level jobs, by teaching the computer trainingcourses on their campuses.

“We have seen the impact that Cristo Reyhas had in other communities and felt strong-ly that Houston would embrace the Cristo Reymodel,” said Ron Martin, a member of theboard of trustees as well as a corporate work-study sponsor. “It is humbling to know thatCristo Rey Jesuit will forever change the livesof 100 students who begin our inaugural classthis fall and the many more who will follow.”

Recruiting Students to Cristo Rey Jesuit

While the jobs have been relatively easyto secure, the recruitment of students hasproven a bit more difficult. It seems that thispopulation of students and families are not inthe habit of applying for schools which makesthe process more time consuming thanexpected.Given the economy, the staff waspreparing themselves for a more difficult timein finding job positions for their students.Enrolling the students was the last worry intheir mind. A final push to fill the freshmanclass with 100 students is being made withthe staff, members of the board and volun-teers who are helping canvas the surroundingneighborhoods by spreading the word aboutthe school and its wonderful opportunity. Theyare confident that the inaugural class will befilled by the first day of corporate trainingcamp on August 10.

“The corporate training camp will cul-minate with the celebration of the Mass of theHoly Spirit on Thursday, September 3, 2009with the Most Reverend Joseph A. Fiorenza,Archbishop Emeritus presiding and Fr. T.J.Martinez, SJ and Fr. Mark Lewis, SJ concele-

Putting Houston’s Future to Work

Fr. T. J. Martinez stands in front of the newly opened Cristo Rey Jesuit. (Photo courtesy of Susan Brenda

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First Jesuit CristoRey School Opensin the South

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“Wherever in the Church, even in the most difficult and exposed fields, in the crossroads of ideologies, in the social trenches, there has been or is confrontation between the burning exigencies of humanity and the perennial message of the Gospel, there have been and are the Jesuits.” -- Paul VI, Address to GC32

by Tricia Steadman Jump

As 183,000 students return this fall to thecampuses of the 28 Jesuit-affiliated collegesand universities, many will find themselvesstanding blurry-eyed in the campus coffeehouse ordering a triple shot, nonfat, no foamventi latte to help keep their eyes open duringtheir first morning lecture hall class of thesemester. For the students at Gonzaga Uni-versity in Spokane, that latte not only helpsthem make it through their Statistical Analy-sis 101 class, it also helps students 7,600 milesaway on the campus of the Catholic Universi-ty of the Sudan.

The pilot program, called the African Out-reach Donate a Latte, was started last year andallows Gonzaga students to donate $2 fromtheir dining program’s funds to the Sudaneseschool in Juba that opened its doors last fallto its inaugural class of 35 students. Thou-sands of dollars were raised last year via theDonate a Latte program for the new Catholicuniversity, providing much needed materialssuch as books and even building materials forthe school. For Fr. Mike Schultheis (ORE), vice

chancellor of theCatholic Universityof the Sudan, Gonza-ga’s coffee for chari-ty initiative alsokeeps him connect-ed to his homeprovince of Oregon,even though he’sbeen working ineducational aposto-lates in Africa formore than 30 years.

“My hope wouldbe to see programs like Gonzaga’s be repli-cated at other Jesuit colleges and universitiesin the United States,” said Schultheis. Witheducational opportunities in the country beingamong the worst in the world and adult liter-

acy below 30 percent, Schultheis realizes thatthe Catholic University of the Sudan is a crit-ical component in moving the country for-ward after almost 25 years of civil war. Thedecades-long conflict left an estimated 2.5million southerners dead and an estimated4.6 million displaced.

In July 2007, the Sudan Catholic Bishops’Conference established the Catholic Univer-sity of the Sudan as a centerpiece of theirnational program to help the country recov-er from decades of violence, famine and massdisplacement of people. The vision for the uni-versity and its development goes back evenfarther, to half a century ago, soon afterSudan’s independence from Britain in 1956.The idea for the university was discussedagain when former Sudanese president JafaarNimeiry met with Pope John Paul II in Romein 1983, just months before a civil war brokeout in the county and dashed the universityproject yet again.

With a peace agreement between north-ern and southern Sudan signed in 2005,refugees began to return from exile andrebuild their communities. But the challengeswere almost overwhelming with the need todevelop basic institutions of governance, toconstruct roads and health clinics, to buildschools and to train personnel with skills andexpertise to manage and provide basic servicesto the populace. The Bishops recognized thatthe Church was called to assist in building thenew Sudan.

“The Catholic University of the Sudan, as anational institution, is a dream long deferred,”explained Schultheis. “Still, the bishops rec-ognized the need for higher level education forSudanese who spent years as refugees and hadlittle hope of gaining access to public institu-tions.”

In February 2007, the Sudan Catholic Bish-ops’ Conference brought Schultheis, who hasa background in economics and has adminis-tered schools in Ghana and Mozambique, into

the project planning to help steer the creationof a master plan for the school that was intend-ed to shape and guide the development of theuniversity over the next few years.

Incorporating some of the best featuresof existing universities, including Jesuitschools in the U.S., Schultheis’ master plandeveloped a model of constituent colleges inthree different locations for the Catholic Uni-versity of the Sudan. The master plan pro-posed a faculty of Arts & Social Sciences inJuba, the principal city of southern Sudan,with programs in Economics and BusinessAdministration, Information & Communica-tions Sciences & Technology and Social & Reli-gious Studies. The second faculty inAgricultural & Environmental Sciences opensthis month in Wau. Their campus is designedto address issues of restoring the fertility of

the soils and increasing food productivity. Thethird faculty will be in engineering with plansto locate it in the oil rich middle region of theSudan. The engineering programs will be tai-lored to train students in the skills requiredto build roads, to understand the geophysicalsciences and to manage the development ofSudan’s rich natural resources, includingpetroleum.

“There’s a strong scientific base to the cur-riculum, a strong mathematical and sciencebase,” said Schultheis. “We want to train stu-dents to be rigorous, to do analytical work andto really contribute to the development of thefuture of the Sudan.”

The Juba campus students completedtheir first year in early June of this year andthose 34 students began their second year ofstudies this month along with a new incom-ing class, bringing the total student body toover 90 students. They come from every dio-cese and state in the Sudan, with more thanthree-quarters Catholic.

“We look to train a generation of men andwomen who are competent technically butalso are committed in terms of values. Andpart of the values has to do with the values ofCatholic social thought. “

With the campus of Agricultural & Envi-ronmental Sciences opening this month inWau, Schultheis can proudly exclaim that “thebaby has been born!” As he quotes the biblicalpassage on the birth of John the Baptist,Schultheis asks “what will this baby become?”and sums up his thoughts on the future of theschool with “the hope that what is born willbecome an active and a vigorous young insti-tution that offers great hope for all of Sudan.”

Tricia Steadman Jump is the ManagingEditor of National Jesuit News and the MediaRelations Manager for the Jesuit Conference.


Creating Change, One Cup of Coffee at a TimeNew School in the Sudan Offers Renewed Hope

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Inaugural students begin their studies at the campus in Juba. (Photo courtesy of Mike Schultheis, SJ)

Fr. Mike Schultheis, SJ

A student makes use of the new library on cam-pus. (Photo courtesy of Mike Schultheis, SJ)


Ministries

many Jesuits, knowing them from the insideout. And he expressed his hope that thesedays at Santa Clara might provide a similarexperience for us all.

To that end, the next day provided amixture of talks by Jesuits reflecting ontheir life in the Society, and faith-sharingin small groups of diverse ages and apos-tolic experiences. The candor of hardenedveterans mixed with the enthusiasm ofthose recently ordained, and parish priestscompared their experiences with highschool teachers. In a short time, observedFr. Provincial Mark Lewis (NOR), “Wemoved from not knowing each other tosharing at a very deep level.”

Conversation was spurred by excellentpresentations. The first was by Fr. JimGartland (CHG), who shared the manyunanticipated turns of his Jesuit career, aswell as his realization, at 41, that “I wasnever going to get it all together.” Fr. JerryCobb (ORE) led a multimedia guided med-itation, inviting the group to meditate onthe various graced moments in Ignatius’life depicted by Dora Bittau’s panels in thechapel at Seattle University. The Jesuitswere asked to reflect on the question,“Which grace most speaks to you at thismoment in your Jesuit life?” Fr. Dan Lahart(MAR) shared with the group his experi-ence of skydiving, describing his leap froma plane just before being challenged to takethe greater leap at Strake Jesuit of accom-modating and educating an additional 400students from New Orleans just after hur-ricane Katrina.

The days also provided an opportuni-ty for proposed future province groupingsto share about their respective province“cultures.” Some groups divided into sub-groups representing common apostolates.Others focused more on the opportunitiesfor mission, which their combinedresources might afford. Each reported

back to the larger group some of the pri-orities which emerged from their discus-sions, attending especially to which of theGeneral Congregation 35’s “frontiers” theyseemed most called.

As illuminating as such lists were,attendees touted the meeting’s less quan-tifiable aspects. U.S. Assistant to the CuriaFr. Jim Grummer (WIS) explained that hefound the meeting to be very much in con-cert with Father General’s recent empha-sis on the universal vocation of the Jesuit.Fr. Kevin Ballard (CFN) expressed histhanks for the gift of a gathering in whichthe participants were not divided into preand post-Vatican II groups. Smolich

observed, “It has been verymoving to me just to see ushanging out with each other,and what that speaks of.”Similarly, Fr. Provincial TomKrettek (WIS) shared thatcompared with other meet-ings, “What I’ve been notic-ing here is the laughter.”

Yet none sought to down-play the challenges the Soci-ety faces. Fr. Provincial PatLee (ORE) pointed out that ina time of so much change,when we also face the conse-quences of past failures; wehave to ask, “What are we sup-posed to be doing with allthis?” “The Spirit is leading usinto a new wilderness,” saidLewis, striking a similar note,a wilderness “with a single cri-terion—what is God’s will inthis?” Krettek added, “Thesequestions have been around aslong as the Society has beenaround,” and stressed theimportance of these desiresbeing nurtured by the twokinds of laughter he noticed—”knowing laughter,” and “thelaughter of sheer enjoyment.”These are the questions themen were charged with bring-ing back to their apostolates and provinces,along with Lee’s reminder that “Hope is whatwe are about, and we can’t keep that beingan elusive word.”

Fr. Mark Mossa (NOR) is a student oftheology at Boston College School of Theol-ogy and Ministry. He also writes a blog enti-tled “Diary of a Rookie Priest” atfrmarkmossasj.blogspot.com.

Keepers of the Fire

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Fr. Greg Chisholm, SJ, pastor at St. Patrick’s Parish in West Oakland, presides over Mass in the mission church on the campus of Santa Clara Universi-ty, on the second day of the Keepers of the Fire meeting. (Photo courtesy of John Whitney SJ )

Fr. James Martin, SJ presents the summary of the report from three Provinces on directions and needsof the future. (Photo courtesy of John Whitney SJ)

Fr. Jim Grummer, SJ, the USA Assistant to the Curia, and Fr. TimKesicki, SJ, Provincial of Detroit, share a laugh before Mass inthe basement of St. Clare’s Church, just off the Santa Clara Uni-versity campus. (Photo courtesy of John Whitney, SJ)


Ministries

Not to be outdone by their western coun-terparts, the Jesuits in the southern parts ofthe United States faced the similar struggle ofearning the trust of the native peoples. TheJesuits were working against rumors andstereotype. The Indians worried that theJesuits would treat them much the same waythe Spanish Conquistadors did. Plus, there wasthe added complication of a reputation theHuguenots had credited the Jesuits with; theFrench warned the Indians of devils in blackrobes who had come to steal their souls.

The frontiers faced by the Jesuits in NewSpain, or present day Mexico, involved min-istering to the indigenous people, but also,quelling internal conflict within their ownranks.

According to Fr. Allan Deck (CFN),“Rome would alternate the provincial in Mex-ico between Spaniards; a Spaniard born inSpain and then a Spaniard born in Mexico tokeep the peace between those two sets ofJesuits. There was a delicate balance betweenthose two groups.”

Despite this unsteady balance, the Jesuitsof New Spain were very successful in theirwork and ministry.

“Jesuits became the second largest ownerof land in New Spain. They primarily ownedsugar plantations, mostly run by the brothers,

and operated with thousands of slaves. Theydeveloped the cattle industry and agricul-ture in Mexico, and many of the standardsin today’s industry were pioneered by thesemissionaries,” said Deck. “The Jesuits of NewSpain were very successful with the nativepeople because of their baroque style of min-istry; they were required to learn at least onenative language in addition to Latin andGreek. They met the local people where theywere at, much as we do today.”

Conference presenters also invited atten-dees to reflect on those moments in historywhere the Society has fallen short of itsideals. Jesuits are men of God but that hasnever meant the Society was immune to tem-poral divisions of the day. While many thingscan influence a Jesuit’s work, whether secu-lar or spiritual, personal affiliation and loy-alty have potential to cloud decision andopinion, as seen in the Civil War.

“Now, during the Civil War, it would bepleasant to report that the American Jesuitswere more enlightened than their contem-poraries, and were opposed to slavery andthus supported the Union cause -- far from it.The Maryland Jesuits, as you know, ownedslaves, [which] split up families,” comment-ed Schroth. “At Boston College, which wasthen a Scholasticate for 46 Scholastics and 8Brothers from all over the world, includingFrance, Germany, England and Ireland, theRector, Fr. John Bapst, wrote ‘when Lincolnwas inaugurated in March 1861, we are atthis moment sitting on a volcano.’ The com-munity was made up of men from every-where, which meant their opinions matchedwhere they came from … community mem-bers were forbidden to talk about slavery, orthe war,” as fights were prone to break out.

Many of the presentations discussed thephysical, tangible connections betweenJesuits of the past, and those of today; themissions founded by Italian Jesuits on theWest Coast, the influence on cattle and agri-

culture industries throughout the continent,the foundation of numerous schools and uni-versities, all of which have lasted throughtime, and continue to affect countless lives.Yet, the special connection between the his-tory and present day became particularlyevident in Fr. David Suwalsky’s (MIS) pre-sentation about the Jesuits in Missouri andthe Midwest.

“To symbolize the connection betweenJesuits of today and those of the past, thechalice of the last French Jesuits working inthe Missouri Province before the suppres-sion, which was used by the Pope in 1999, isused and presented by the bishop to theJesuit ordinandi at their ordination,” saidSuwalsky.

But perhaps the most poignant juxtapo-sition of Jesuit mission history meeting pre-sent day was found in Br. Jim Boynton’s(DET) presentation on New France.

“The reason that I was originally direct-ed toward the Society of Jesus was the men Iam going to talk about today, and the reasonI am going to stay is people like yourself,”commented Boynton. “However, I would liketo point out that right here I am holding mytribal membership card to the Sioux-SaintMarie tribe of Chippewa Indians. I am amember of the Indian tribe by blood throughmy mother.”

Despite the Society’s immense historicalbreadth, vast like the North American con-tinent itself, the commonality of the mis-sionary spirit became manifest throughoutthe Institute. While the differences betweenJesuits and the regions profiled were evident;be it culturally, geographically or genera-tionally; they were connected through theirJesuit identity, and their desire to better theworld they knew, for the greater glory of God.

Kaitlyn McCarthy is the communicationsspecialist for the Jesuit Conference in Wash-ington, D.C.

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Raymond Schroth, SJ (NYK)

Larry Huck, SJ (NOR) Gerald Fogarty, SJ (MAR)Allan Deck, SJ (CFN)

David Suwalsky, SJ (MIS) Jim Boynton, SJ (DET)

During an afternoon off, Institute participants had the opportunity to take a tour of San Francisco,which included a stop at St. Ignatius Church. (Photo by Kaitlyn McCarthy)

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Fr. John Braverman, 41, from Indepen-dence, Ohio, earned a PhD in biology from theUniversity of California in Davis. He has taughtbiology at Georgetown University in Wash-ington, D.C., and Loyola University Chicago,where he also earned a graduate degree inhealth care ethics. After ordination, he willstudy theology at Santa Clara University in Cal-ifornia and assist in pastoral ministry. (Mary-land Province)

Fr. Joseph Carver, 38, from Syracuse,earned a BA in medieval history and theolo-gy from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadel-phia and an MA in the same subjects fromOxford University. He taught at Jesuit High inPortland and taught philosophy in Colombia,and he has completed several “urban plunge”immersion trips. He hopes to lead retreats andpromote ecological spirituality after ordina-tion. (Oregon Province)

Fr. Brian Christopher, 34, from St. Louis,earned a BA in Russian and philosophy at SaintLouis University. He did gang ministry inChicago’s public housing projects, studied low-income housing in Camden, New Jersey, ledretreats for the homeless, and worked as amediator in courts and with housing authori-ties in Massachusetts. After ordination, he willwork with street gangs at St. Martin de PorresParish in Belize City. (Missouri Province)

Fr. Richard Curry, 66, from Philadelphia,joined the Jesuits as a brother in 1962. He hasa PhD in theater from New York University andfounded the National Theatre Workshop of theHandicapped in 1977. He has published bookson Jesuit breadmaking and soupmaking,founded a bakery to support people with dis-abilities, and works with military chaplains onpost-traumatic stress syndrome and spiritu-ality. (Maryland Province)

Fr. Brian Dunkle, 34, from Freeport, NewYork, graduated from Harvard University witha bachelor’s degree in Classics and earned amaster’s in Greek and Latin from Oxford Uni-versity. He worked at Canisius College in Buf-falo and St. Aloysius School in the Bronx andtaught English to Polish Jesuits in Krakow. Hewill pursue a PhD in Classics after ordination.(New York Province)

Fr. Christopher Hadley, 39, from Seattle,has a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from St.John’s College in Annapolis and a master’s ineducation from Seattle University. He taughtphilosophy for the Service Learning Programat Gonzaga University in Spokane and servedas deacon at St. Raphael Church in Medford,Massachusetts. He plans to pursue a PhD intheology after ordination. (Oregon Province)

Fr. Thomas Kenny, 36, from Belmont,Massachusetts, has an MA in health care ethicsfrom Loyola University Chicago. He served aschaplain at Cook County Hospital in Chicagoand deacon for the immigration and customsenforcement unit at a Suffolk County jail. Hehas worked with youth groups in the Amazonand at an orphanage in Salvador, Brazil. He willcontinue studying theology at Boston Collegethis fall. (New England Province)

Fr. Fernando Álvarez Lara, 36, from Car-margo, Chihua-hua, Mexico, has a BS in engi-neering from Texas Tech and an MA inphilosophy and social sciences from InstitutoTecnologico y de Estudios Superiores inGuadalajara, Mexico. He taught engineer-ingat Seattle University and led immersion trips toMexico and Co--lombia and pilgrimages toSpain and Turkey. He will work in campus min-istry at Seattle University in the fall. (OregonProvince)

Fr. R. Benjamin Osborne, 34, fromWinthrop, Minnesota, has a BA in theologyfrom Marquette University in Milwaukee anda master’s in U.S. history from Saint Louis Uni-versity. He taught Scripture at Creighton Prepin Omaha and to novices in Kohima, India. Healso served as spiritual director at a Californiaprison and directed eight-day retreats. He plansto pursue a doctorate in American Catholichistory after ordination. (Wisconsin Province)

Fr. Joseph Riordan, 33, from Eatontown,New Jersey, has a bachelor’s degree in Englishand Spanish literature from Rutgers Universi-ty. He taught classical languages and coachedbaseball at St. Peter’s Prep in Jersey City, andhe ministered at San Quentin State Prison inCalifornia. He will continue theology studiesat the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome afterordination. (New York Province)

Fr. Martin Schreiber, 33, from UniversityHeights, Ohio, has a BS in finance from MiamiUniversity in Ohio. He taught theology andcoached baseball and soccer at the Universityof Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy. Hehas led students on immersion trips to Haiti,worked in a Kenyan orphanage for HIV-posi-tive children, and taught religion to orphansin Honduras. He will begin working on a PhDin education this fall. (Detroit Province)

Fr. Dat Tran, 41, from Saigon, has a mas-ter’s degree in engineering from Portland StateUniversity and taught electrical and computerengineering at Seattle University. He hasworked with the Jesuit Refugee Service in Thai-land and coordinated the catechism programat Christ the Light Parish in Oakland, Califor-nia. After ordination he will teach engineer-ing at Gonzaga University in Spokane. (OregonProvince)

Fr. Quan Tran, 41, from Saigon, earned adegree in microbiology from the University ofWashington. He taught at Jesuit High Schoolin Portland and led students on a mission tripto rebuild houses in New Orleans, and he com-pleted a clinical pastoral education programat Veterans Hospital in Seattle. After ordina-tion he will work in campus ministry at Gon-zaga University in Spokane. (Oregon Province)

Fr. Matthew Walsh, 37, from Prudenville,Michigan, studied humanities at CreightonUniversity and earned an MA in philosophyfrom Loyola University Chicago. He taught reli-gion at Red Cloud High School in Pine Ridge,South Dakota, worked with the homeless inSan Francisco, and volunteered at Cristo ReyJesuit High in Chicago. He plans to work in pas-toral ministry and spiritual direction after ordi-nation. (Wisconsin Province)

Fr. Eric Watson, 43, from Ashland, Ore-gon, earned a PhD in chemistry from BrownUniversity. His other academic interests includeEnglish literature and art; he has studied at theArt Institute of Chicago and taught English toJesuits in Poland. He directed eight-day retreatsin Los Altos, California, and ministered on theBlackfeet Reservation in Montana. He willteach chemistry at Seattle University after ordi-nation. (Oregon Province)

Fr. Cyril Whitaker, 52, from Cincinnati,has degrees in Classics, philosophy, education,and French from Xavier University in Cincin-nati. He taught Classics and philosophy atXavier and journeyed to Vietnam to teach Eng-lish to seminarians, and he served at St. PaulParish in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He willassist at St. Xavier Parish in Cincinnati andcontinue teaching after ordination. (ChicagoProvince)

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Fr. John Braverman, SJ

Fr. Joseph Carver, SJ

Fr. Brian Christopher, SJ

Fr. Richard Curry, SJ

Fr. Brian Dunkle, SJ

Fr. Christopher Hadley, SJ

Fr. Thomas Kenny, SJ

Fr. Fernando Álvarez Lara, SJ

Fr. R. Benjamin Osborne, SJ

Fr. Joseph Riordan, SJ

Fr. Martin Schreiber, SJ

Fr. Dat Tran, SJ

Fr. Quan Tran, SJ

Fr. Matthew Walsh, SJ

Fr. Eric Watson, SJ

Fr. Cyril Whitaker, SJ


JESUIT LIFE

� The province gathered in early June to celebrate theordinations of six men: FFrrss.. DDaatt TTrraann,, QQuuaann TTrraann,, JJoosseepphhCCaarrvveerr,, EErriicc WWaattssoonn,, CChhrriiss HHaaddlleeyy and FFeerrnnaannddooÁÁllvvaarreezz LLaarraa. That same weekend, this year’s Jubilarianswere honored at a special Mass and dinner. Thirty-five mencelebrated jubilees, including FFrr.. PPaauull LLuuggeerr, still goingstrong in his 80th year as a Jesuit.

� First Vows were pronounced at SStt.. IIggnnaattiiuuss CChhuurrcchh inPortland on August 15th. Three men knelt before FFrr..PPrroovviinncciiaall PPaatt LLeeee as Jesuits and their families looked on.Pronouncing their vows were MMiicchhaaeell LLaavveessoonn,, LLoorreennzzooHHeerrmmaann and PPaattrriicckk CCoouuttuurree.

� Back at Seattle University after a year’s sabbatical, FFrr..PPeetteerr EEllyy has moved into the office of Vice President forMission and Ministry, replacing FFrr.. PPaattrriicckk HHoowweellll, thecurrent rector.

� Also back from a year’s rest is former Provincial, FFrr..JJoohhnn WWhhiittnneeyy. He will serve as pastor of St. Joseph’sParish on Seattle’s Capital Hill, replacing FFrr.. CChhrriiss WWeeeekkllyywho has moved to Portland as pastor of SStt.. IIggnnaattiiuussPPaarriisshh.

� The education apostolate got a shot in the arm with thisyear’s status. Nine men, including four of the newly-ordained priests, received assignments to province schools.FFaatthheerrss DDaatt TTrraann and QQuuaann TTrraann are both in Spokane,Washington, at GGoonnzzaaggaa UUnniivveerrssiittyy, while FFrr.. EErriicc WWaatt--ssoonn is at SSeeaattttllee UUnniivveerrssiittyy. Spokane’s GGoonnzzaaggaa PPrreepp wel-comed scholastic CChhrriiss SSppiicceerr. SSeeaattttllee PPrreepp got FFrr..JJoosseepphh CCaarrvveerr and scholastic JJuuaann PPaabblloo MMaarruuffffoo ddeellTToorrrroo. Two scholastics, AAaarroonn EEnnggrreebbrreettssoonn and MMaattttHHoollllaanndd are assigned to BBeellllaarrmmiinnee PPrreepp in Tacoma,Washington, while PPhhiill SSuutthheerrllaanndd, another scholastic, isteaching at SStt.. AAnnddrreeww’’ss NNaattiivviittyy SScchhooooll in Portland. Ore-gon.

� GGoonnzzaaggaa PPrreepp, in Spokane, Washington, began the aca-demic year with an all-school Mass on September 3rd whenthe Principal, FFrr.. KKeevviinn CCoonnnneellll, pronounced his FinalVows. The Mass was celebrated by FFrr.. PPrroovviinncciiaall PPaatt LLeeeeoutside, on the school’s football field.

� The RReeggiiss CCoommmmuunniittyy in Spokane, Washington, hometo many of the Province’s senior members, has a new supe-rior. Replacing FFrr.. BBoobb LLyyoonnss is FFrr.. PPaauull CCoocchhrraann, whomoved down from the missions in Alaska.

- Brad Reynolds, SJ

Oregon

� FFrr.. DDoouuggllaass MMaarrccoouuiilllleerr succeeded FFrr.. TTiimm MMccMMaahhoonnas provincial of the Missouri province on July 31. Thetransfer of office took place at a Mass followed by a recep-tion for Jesuits and colleagues at RReeggiiss UUnniivveerrssiittyy in Den-ver. And in what seemed a fair turnabout, Fr. Marcouillerthen assigned Fr. McMahon to become the acting rector atBBeellllaarrmmiinnee HHoouussee in St. Louis—a position Fr. Marcouillerhad held moments earlier.

� The fastest move of a novitiate on record anywhereoccurred on August 15. Six men―three men each from theMissouri and Wisconsin provinces―pronounced their firstvows in St. Paul, Minnesota. The occasion culminated a 15-year run of a joint novitiate program in St. Paul that hadserved the Missouri, Wisconsin and English Canadaprovinces. On the same day, some 1,200 miles due south,FFrr..MMaarrkk TThhiibbooddeeaauuxx, the novice director, welcomed 12new novices (six from Missouri and six from New Orleans)to begin a joint novitiate for the two provinces in GGrraannddCCootteeaauu. FFrr.. DDaann WWhhiittee arrived bleary eyed from histertianship in Australia to assume his duties as socius tothe novice director. Dan’s soul should have caught up withhis body by the time the Long Retreat begins.

� FFrr.. EEuussttaaccee MM.. SSeeqquueeiirraa (ZAM) was installed by Arch-bishop Chaput on August 2 as the pastor of SStt.. IIggnnaattiiuussLLooyyoollaa PPaarriisshh in Denver, Colorado. FFrr.. TThhoommaass JJoosstt, theformer pastor will enjoy some sabbatical time after histwelve years of leadership in the parish.

� FFrr.. TToomm RRoocchhffoorrdd, fresh from Rome where he hasserved as the Secretary of Communications for the Societyfor the past nine years, has taken on the responsibilities asthe Assistant for Communications for the Missouriprovince.

� FFrr.. DDiirrkk DDuunnffeeee has begun working as a nurse practi-tioner at the Southwest Boulevard Family Health Care Cen-ter in Kansas City, Kansas, after earning his degree atOregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon.

� The newest community in the province has been namedthe SSaaccrreedd HHeeaarrtt JJeessuuiitt CCoommmmuunniittyy. It has taken up resi-dence in a Victorian era house that previously served as theoffice and production studio for the Sacred Heart Radioand Television Program. More recently, the building asbeen a residence for some of the scholastics in the FirstStudies program. The provincial and three members of hisstaff along with three university professors and the nationalecclesial assistant for the Christian Life Community are thecharter members of this new community.

� FFrr.. SStteevvee SScchhooeenniigg received his Doctorate in MedievalHistory from Columbia University in New York and hasbeen hired by the history department at SSaaiinntt LLoouuiiss UUnnii--vveerrssiittyy.

- Michael Harter SJ

Missouri

� FFrr.. PPeetteerr PPaabbsstt reports that Sacred Heart NativitySchools held their annual Fiesta and made $300,000 to beused for operating expenses during the year.

� FFrr.. RRoobbeerrtt DDoollaann’s photographs of the KKiinnoo BBoorrddeerrIInniittiiaattiivvee formed the basis for a beautiful and moving arti-cle on the new apostolate for Company Magazine. Robert’sstunning photograph of a man recently released from cus-tody by Homeland Security was the cover photo.

� FFrr.. BBiillll CCaaiinn’s (NYK) play dealing with Shakespeare andFr. Henry Garnet, SJ, in 1605 London – Equivocation - isnow open and running at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.There will be subsequent productions at Seattle Rep, TheMarin Theater Comany and on the mainstage of The GeffenTheater in Los Angeles. His 9 Circles – about the Iraq war -was just presented at South Coast Rep as part of the PacificPlaywrights’ Festival. His latest play – How to Write A NewBook for the Bible – will be presented in August at The OjaiPlaywrights’ Conference.

� In mid-March FFrr.. JJiimm FFeelltt of SSaannttaa CCllaarraa UUnniivveerrssiittyygave a paper, “Novelty in the Possible and the Actual,” atthe annual meeting of the Metaphysical Society of Americaat Emory University in Atlanta. In the fall Notre Dame Uni-versity Press will issue a collection of Jim Felt’s publishedessays under the title, Adventures in Unfashionable Philoso-phy.

� FFrr.. MMaaxx OOlliivvaa is on the march publicizing his mostrecent book Beatitudes for the Workplace, published byNovalis. He uses the Beatitudes of Jesus as a framework tobring spirituality and ethics to the business community inthis book.

� FFrr.. SStteevvee KKeellllyy was finally sentenced in a nearly two-year case involving an anti-war witness at VandenbergA.F.B., with being fined. Being indigent and of a tenderconscience he and co-defendants, Louie Vitale, O.F.M., andJeff Dietrich of the L.A.Catholic Worker refused to pay.More recently, Steve and FFrr.. JJoohhnn DDeeaarr (MAR) and twelveothers were taken to Las Vegas jail for an attempt to dialogwith keyboard-pilots wielding unmanned drones currentlybombing civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan, at CreechA.F.B.

� FFrr.. MMiicchhaaeell EE.. EEnngghh, became the twenty-eighth presi-dent in the 158-year history of SSaannttaa CCllaarraa UUnniivveerrssiittyy inceremonies held on campus Thursday, April 23, andFriday, April 24. The inaugural celebration began with aEucharistic liturgy, at which San Jose Bishop Patrick J.McGrath presided and PPrroovviinncciiaall JJoohhnn MMccGGaarrrryy preachedthe homily.

- Leo J. Hombach, SJ

California


JESUIT LIFE

� FFrr.. JJaammeess RR.. CCoonnrrooyy has been named the new executivedirector of the Jesuit Collaborative. Conroy, a native ofPittsburgh, currently directs the Spiritual Exercises inPittsburgh. Throughout his ministry as a teacher, priest, inJesuit formation and as a retreat director, he has led morethan 150 bishops, priests, religious and lay men andwomen through the Spiritual Exercises. He served as novicedirector of the Maryland Province, was co-founder andexecutive director of the IIggnnaattiiaann VVoolluunntteeeerr CCoorrppss andwas rector of the GGoonnzzaaggaa HHiigghh SScchhooooll CCoommmmuunniittyy.

� Pope Benedict has bestowed honors on priests and reli-gious of the Archdiocese of Newark, including FFrr.. EEddwwaarrddGGllyynnnn. He was among the religious men and women hon-ored with the Benemerenti Medal. An evening prayer ser-vice will be held in the fall at the cathedral in Newark.

� FFrr.. JJeeffffrreeyy CChhaanngg has been appointed director of thejuniorate and prefect of spirituality at AArrrruuppeeIInntteerrnnaattiioonnaall RReessiiddeennccee, the scholasticate of the East Asiaand Oceania Assistancy, located on the campus of Ateneode Manila University.

� FFrr.. JJoohhnn SSwwooppee has been elected to the PPrreessiiddeennttss’’CCoouunncciill ooff tthhee CCrriissttoo RReeyy NNeettwwoorrkk. Elected by his peers,he will serve through June 2011. The five-member councilmeets on an as-need basis to provide counsel to thenetwork staff, based in Chicago.

� Alumni of the University of Scranton honored FFrr..WWiilllliiaamm GGeeoorrggee with the Frank O’Hara Award duringAlumni Reunion Weekend in June. The award is the highesthonor bestowed by the university and alumni society. Fr.George was honored for his work in religion and spirituali-ty.

� For his life’s work in astronomy, FFrr.. GGeeoorrggee CCooyynneereceived an honorary degree during commencement exer-cises at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.Fr. Coyne, is director emeritus of the Vatican Observatory.

- Mary Tilghman

� FFrr.. SSiimmoonn SSmmiitthh, chaplain at Nativity School of Worcester,reports that the 14 eighth-grade graduates received 48 letters ofacceptance from private high schools, all with some form offinancial aid. MMrr.. CChhrriissttoopphheerr RRyyaann will be spending hisregency there, thus doubling the Jesuit presence at the school.Mr. Ryan will teach religion and Spanish.

� FFrr.. BBrruuccee MMoorrrriillll pronounced final vows in the Society ofJesus on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at St. Ignatius Church, Chest-nut Hill, MassA. Fr. Morrill is an associate professor in the the-ology department at Boston College and director of thedepartment’s graduate program.

� FFrr.. WWiilllliiaamm EEaaggaann, teacher of religious education at FFaaiirr--ffiieelldd PPrreepp, has been granted a sabbatical next year and plans tostudy theology in the Holy Land the first semester and in Berke-ley, Calif.A the second semester.

� MMrr.. TThhoommaass OOllssoonn has been assigned to FFaaiirrffiieelldd PPrreepp forregency. He will join the theology department as a full-timeteacher.

� FFrr.. RRoobbeerrtt AArraauujjoo has been appointed the inaugural holderof the John Courtney Murray, SJ University Professorship atLLooyyoollaa UUnniivveerrssiittyy iinn CChhiiccaaggoo. In addition to his other duties,he will be teaching at Loyola Law School.

� BBrr.. JJoonnaatthhaann SSttootttt has been missioned to the VaticanObservatory in Tucson Arizona for his regency.

� FFrr.. RRoobbeerrtt DDaallyy, provincial assistant for higher educationand professor emeritus of theology at Boston College, has writ-ten a new book, Sacrifice Unveiled: The True Meaning of Christ-ian Sacrifice, published by T&T Clark Ltd in the UK. TheAmerican edition is scheduled for release in June by ContinuumPublishing Co. of New York.

� FFrr.. MMuutthhoolliill KKuurraaiinn GGeeoorrggee (KER) and FFrr.. LLllooyydd GGeeoorrggee(CDA) are currently lecturing at the College of the Holy Cross inSociology and Religious Studies respectively. The Holy CrossVisiting International Jesuit Scholars program, endowed by theHHoollyy CCrroossss JJeessuuiitt CCoommmmuunniittyy, has hosted fifteen scholarssince its inception in 2000.

- Alice Poltorick

� MMrr.. BBaalliinntt NNaaggyy (HUN) departed in June for Budapest,where he was ordained to the priesthood. Balint has beenstudying English as a second language at Syracuse Univer-sity since joining LLee MMooyynnee CCoolllleeggee in early January. He isscheduled to begin studying at the BBoossttoonn CCoolllleeggee SScchhoooollooff TThheeoollooggyy aanndd MMiinniissttrryy in the fall. FFrr.. BBoobb SSccuullllyy rep-resented the community at Balint’s ordination.

� For the past two years, MMrr.. JJoosseepphh MMaarriinnaa has servedLLee MMooyynnee CCoolllleeggee as Associate Provost. This past year healso held an appointment as chair of the Department ofEducation. Joe will begin his theological studies at theBBoossttoonn CCoolllleeggee SScchhooooll ooff MMiinniissttrryy aanndd TThheeoollooggyy in thefall. This past month Joe also had the honor of being electedto the Le Moyne College Board of Trustees.

� FFrr.. JJaammeess CCoouugghhlliinn is completing his first year as prin-cipal at MMccQQuuaaiidd JJeessuuiitt HHiigghh SScchhooooll in Rochester. He isplaying keyboards for the orchestral accompaniment of awell-received high school presentation of Les Miserables.

� FFrr.. GGrreeggoorryy BBooyyllee (CFN) joined the school communityat TThhee LLooyyoollaa SScchhooooll for Ignatian Awareness Day alongwith two of his “homeboys” from HHoommeebbooyy IInndduussttrriieess.The day began with an assembly at which FFrr.. MMiicchhaaeellSSeehhlleerr (MAR) shared a reflection on loving. Greg thenpreached and presided at a school liturgy. Afterward, Greggave the keynote address in the gymnasium. Next, the stu-dents divided into groups to hear from the two homeboys,do a reflection on loving and play Jesuit Jeopardy.

� FFrr.. RRoonn SSaammss celebrated the Golden Anniversary of hisordination. During his long mainstay in the missions in theCaroline and Marshall Islands, he served the Jesuit Semi-nary and Mission Bureau and was always a loyal supporterand worker at his alma mater, CCaanniissiiuuss HHiigghh SScchhooooll. Hiscountless friends and parishioners and the SStt.. MMiicchhaaeell’’ssccoommmmuunniittyy celebrated his jubilee earlier in the summer.

- Louis T. Garaventa, SJ

Maryland New YorkNew England

brating,” Dr. Thomas said. “This openingmass promises to celebrate the diversity of theschool which mirrors the diversity of the cityof Houston. This celebration will mark the

beginning of the school’s mission ‘…toempower students of all faiths from econom-ically challenged families to reach their fullpotential’.”

Martinez’s primary vision of the schoolis to provide a rigorous, first rate education-al, moral and corporate environment thatallows the students to re-imagine their futuresas business, civic and religious leaders ofHouston and beyond. In a very real way, thestudents are our own “future at work.”

“Many people ask, ‘Why would you atall be interested in being involved in thechaos of starting up a school particularlyat this time?’” Martinez said. “My grand-father came over from Mexico, became acitizen and had an opportunity to workhis way through school. Because of this,he was able to send my dad to school andmy dad sent me, without which I wouldnever have been a Jesuit and now presi-dent of Cristo Rey Jesuit.”

He added, “These kids are my grand-father all over again, making this missionnot only one I believe in because I am aJesuit priest, but one I believe in because itis my family’s story as well.”

Susan Branda Martin is the director ofcommunications and public relations forCristo Rey Jesuit in Houston. For moreinformation about Cristo Rey Jesuit, visitwww.cristoreyhouston.org

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� FFrr.. TTiimmootthhyy KKeessiicckkii (DET) became the provincial of the Chicago Province on August 30, 2009,while remaining the provincial of the Detroit Province. This is a major beginning step in the reconfigurationof the Chicago, Detroit and Wisconsin Provinces. Kesicki became provincial at a Mass presided over by FFrr .. EEddSScchhmmiiddtt (CHG), the former Chicago provincial, in the student chapel at SStt.. IIggnnaattiiuuss CCoolllleeggee PPrreepp. Attendeesat the Mass included Jesuits from the Chicago, Detroit, and Wisconsin provinces as well as representativesfrom Jesuit institutions in the Chicago area. Kesicki and most of his staff will be based in the Chicago area.The business, development and social and international ministries offices in the Detroit Province will remainin Detroit until next summer or later. Until December 2009, FFrr .. JJiimm RRii lleeyy (DET) and BBrr.. JJoohhnn MMoorr iiccoonnii(DET) will be based in the Detroit office, preparing to move essential records to the Chicago office before theend of 2009.

� MMeessssrrss.. AAnnddrr iijj HHllaabbssee (DET), JJaammeess RRiioorrddaann (CHG), and KKyyllee RRooaarrkk (CHG) pronounced first vows onAugust 15, 2009, in the student chapel at the UUnniivveerrssiittyy ooff DDeettrrooiitt JJeessuuii tt HHiigghh SScchhooooll. Andrij is in the FirstStudies program at FFoorrddhhaamm UUnniivveerrssiittyy and James and Kyle are at LLooyyoollaa UUnniivveerrssiittyy.

� Thirteen novices entered LLooyyoollaa HHoouussee NNoovviittiiaa ttee on August 29, 2009. The first year novices are:MMeessssrrss..TTrreevvoorr BBeeaacchh (DET), SStteepphheenn CCaa llmmee (CHG), JJeeffff DDoorrrr (WIS), KKeevviinn EEmmbbaacchh (DET), GGaavviinn KKeeiissll iinngg(WIS), MMaatttthheeww LLiieesseerr (CHG), AAddaamm MMeesscchheerr (WIS), GGrreeggoorryy OOssttddiieekk (DET), JJoosshhuuaa PPeetteerrss (DET), PPeetteerrRRaannggee (DET), JJoohhnn RRoosseell llee (WIS), KKyyllee SShhiinnsseekkii (CHG), and JJeeffffrreeyy SSuull lliivvaann (WIS). The young men rangein age from 23 to 49 years old and come from Arizona, Hawaii, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma and Wis-consin. For more information on these novices, please visit www.thinkjesuit.org. The first year novices werewelcomed by the second year novices: MMeessssrrss.. RRoobbeerrtt CCaarrllttoonn (CHG), JJoosseepphh FFlleeiisscchhmmaann (WIS), RRyyaann MMaass--tteerrssoonn (CHG), BBrryyaann NNoorrttoonn (DET), NNaatthhaanniiee ll RRoommaannoo (WIS), JJaammeess SSaanndd (CHG), JJoohhnn SSiimmmmoonnss (DET),and MMaatttthheeww SSppoottttss (CHG).

� The Chicago and Detroit Provinces’ novitiate has been located at LLooyyoollaa HHoouussee in Berkley, Mich., since1971. As of Entrance Day, August 29, 2009, a tri-province novitiate of the Chicago, Detroit and Wisconsinprovinces was launched. Loyola House will serve as the transitional location of the tri-province novitiate untilit is relocated within the current Wisconsin Province in August 2010.

� FFrr.. MMaarrttiinn CCoonnnneellll (DET) has been missioned to the Eastern Africa Province, where he will help start andbe the headmaster of SStt.. PPeetteerr CCllaavveerr HHiigghh SScchhooooll and Our Lady Queen of Peace Educational Center inDodoma, Tanzania. Read Marty’s blog to keep up-to-date on his adventure:www.crosshairsofprovidence.blogspot.com/

� FFrr.. JJeerroommee OOddbbeerrtt (DET) is now the minister at the PPoonnttiiffiiccaall BB iibbll iiccaall IInnssttiittuuttee in Jerusalem.

� FFrr.. JJaarreedd WWiicckkss (DET) had a book published earlier this summer by Paulist Press. Doing Theology exploreshow major Christian thinkers (Irenaeus, Origen, Luther, and others) pursued theological understanding andthen reviews the directions given by Vatican Council II for working out a beneficial and well-grounded Christ-ian theology.

� The SStt.. JJoohhnn’’ss JJeessuuiitt CCoommmmuunnii ttyy has moved out of the residence they have occupied for the past 44 years.The five-person community moved into a house a few miles from the school. The new community house wasnamed BBeerrcchhmmaannss HHoouussee because the school is named after St. John Berchmans.

- John Moriconi, SJ

� FFrr.. JJoosseepphh BBrroowwnn, professor and director of the BlackAmerican Studies Program at Southern Illinois Universityin Carbondale, Ill., recently published The Sun Whispers,Wait: New and Collected Poems. Available through BrownTurtle Press, Brown’s collection includes the poems of hiscelebrated Accidental Grace (1986) as well as newly createdworks spanning the past two decades.

� On Saturday, August 15, MMssssrrss.. BBeenn AAnnddeerrssoonn,,MMiicchhaaeell RRoossssmmaannnn and TThhoo VVuu professed vows alongsidetheir three Missouri confreres. The six represent the finalclass of the Wisconsin-Missouri merger which, with Eng-lish Canada, began in 1994 at the existing North AmericanMartyrs novitiate in St. Paul, Minn. For the service at St.Thomas More parish, Missouri vowman MMrr.. SSeeaann PPoowweerrss’(MIS) father, Rev. Mr. James Powers, proclaimed thegospel. FFrr.. JJooee WWeeiissss, pastor, professed final vows. Arch-bishop John Nienstedt of Minneapolis-St. Paul witnessedthe ceremony, offering warm encouragement to the newlyvows Jesuits and exuberant praise of Weiss’s leadershipand ministry in the archdiocese.

� A week later, at his family’s parish out in the suburbs,FFrr.. JJoohhnn TThhiieeddee professed final vows, too. A graduate stu-dent in systematic theology at Notre Dame, Thiede’s entireSouth Bend, Ind, Jesuit community traveled to New Hope,Minn., to celebrate the day. Thiede’s novice master and thecurrent director of the Demontreville Retreat House, FFrr..PPaattrriicckk MMccCCoorrkkeellll, preached.

� The St. Louis Jesuits, a musical group with membersFFrrss.. BBoobb DDuuffffoorrdd,, JJoohhnn FFoolleeyy (MIS) and RRoocc OO’’CCoonnnnoorr,held a 35-year reunion concert in Omaha, Neb., at the Hol-land Performing Arts Center. Proceeds from the September20th concert benefited the JJeessuuiitt MMiiddddllee SScchhooooll and SStt..PPeetteerr CCllaavveerr CCrriissttoo RReeyy HHiigghh SScchhooooll, both in Omaha. Theconcert featured their new “Morning Light” CD as well as acommemorative book, The St. Louis Jesuits: Thirty Years.The book offers readers an inside look into the history anddevelopment of Catholic contemporary liturgical music andthese men who composed it. CCrreeiigghhttoonn UUnniivveerrssiittyybestowed an honorary doctorate of music on the St. LouisJesuits in 2006.

� FFrr.. WWiilllliiaamm KKuurrzz, professor of theology specializing inNew Testament exegesis at MMaarrqquueettttee UUnniivveerrssiittyy, willserve as the Rev. Francis Wade Chair at Marquette for fall2009 semester. Kurz is the author of more than 40 articlesand seven books, including his most recent, Reading theBible as God’s Own Story: A Catholic Approach for BringingScripture to Life (2007). He is currently writing a theologicalcommentary on the book of Acts for the 16-volume CatholicCommentary on Sacred Scripture, which is to be completedlater this year. FFrr.. DDeeaann BBrraacckklleeyy (NYK) of the Universityof Central America in San Salvador, El Salvador, will occupythe Wade Chair in the spring.

- Daniel Hendrickson, SJ

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Beatitudes for the WorkplaceMax Oliva SJTwenty-Third Publications, New London, Conn.Paper; 216pp; $21.95; ISBN 978-2-89646-125-7

People in the workplace areasking some difficult questionsabout how to find meaning intheir work, how to find God indaily life, and how to bring thelight of faith to ethical issues.

Using the Beatitudes of Jesusas a framework, Oliva exploreseight virtues: wisdom, integrity,honesty, compassion for others,justice for the earth, forgiveness,generosity, and courage.

Readers will find in thesepages help from the experience of others, hope for theirwork-faith journey, and encouragement to live a blessedlife.

Catholic St. Louis: A Pictorial HistoryWilliam Barnaby Faherty SJPhotography by Mark Scott AbelnReedy Press, St. Louis, Mo., 2009Paper; 176pp; $32.95; ISBN 978-1-93337-083-5

In Catholic St. Louis: A Pic-torial History, rich text and pho-tography capture the people andplaces that have defined Catholi-cism in a historic, and histori-cally Catholic, city. Renownedhistorian William BarnabyFaherty, S.J., delivers concise his-torical sketches of the integralpeople and the landmark hous-es of worship; and photograph-er Mark Scott Abeln capturesnearly forty different area

churches in majestic fashion. From the eighteenth centu-ry Holy Family Church in Cahokia to the overwhelmingCathedral Basilica to the modern St. Anselm s in CreveCoeur, St. Louis s churches are significant, not to mentionspectacular. This coffeetable book truly presents CatholicSt. Louis in all its splendor.

Essays on Love and Knowledge Pierre Rousselot, SJ Andrew Tallon (Translator), Pol Vandevelde (Translator) Marquette University Press, Milwaukee, Wis., 2009Paper; 265pp; $30.00; ISBN 978-0-87462-655-1

This volume is the third ofPierre Rousselot’s PhilosophicalWorks. It includes seven essayswritten between 1908 and1914,one year before his death (Twowere published posthumously:“A Theory of Concepts by Func-tional Unity” and “Idealism andThomism”). These essays offer acomplement to Rousselot’s viewson epistemology, which he pre-sented in Intelligence and con-stitute the core of his

Neo-thomist philosophy. However, besides making his viewsmore clear and specific, these essays also go further thanwhat we had in Intelligence. It is an effort to offer a sys-tematic view on knowledge as the fusion of the knower andthe known. These views go significantly beyond St Thomas’sdoctrine and some of them are rather daring, like Rous-selot’s notion of an Angel-humanity. The common threadof these essays is the role of love in knowledge. Rousselot’sexpands St. Thomas’s view on knowledge, on the mode ofnature (per modum naturae) or connaturality, and under-stands love both as an attitude of the knower, who must bein a certain disposition toward the object, and a charac-terization of the relationship between knower and known.

Finding God in All Things: A Companion to the Spir-itual Exercises of St. Ignatius William A. Barry, SJAve Maria Press, Notre Dame, Ind., 2009Paper; 144pp; $12.95; ISBN 978-0-87793-460-8

Twenty years on, and with50,000 copies sold of the firstedition, this timely new editionof William Barry’s classic offerstoday’s readers a clear presenta-tion of the themes and contem-porary practice of the SpiritualExercises of St. Ignatius.

Dispelling the myth thatspiritual retreats are only forthose who can get away for anextended time, seasoned spiri-tual director William A. Barry,S.J., shares his unique under-

standing of the Spiritual Exercises and demonstrates howthey can benefit the ordinary person’s relationship withGod. Finding God in All Things gives new life to the spir-ituality of St. Ignatius and illuminates the transformingpower of the Exercises.

God of Our Deepest Longings: Seven Biblical Meditations Peter van Breemen, SJAve Maria Press, Notre Dame, Ind., 2009Paper; 128pp; $11.95; ISBN 978-1-59471-200-5

Internationally acclaimedauthor Peter van Breemen, SJ,draws on the spirituality ofJohn’s gospel and Ignatius ofLoyola to stress that our deepestdesires and God’s will for uscoincide when we let go of self-ishness; and that God’s deepestlonging is to dwell in us, to makea home in our souls. In this mas-terful exploration of spiritualjourneying, van Breemen sug-gests that life is not a series of

problems to be solved, but rather a wonderful mystery tobe appreciated and lived fully.

Maritain and AmericaChristopher M. Cullen, SJCatholic University of Amer-ica Press, Washington, DC,2009Paper; 233pp; $24.95; ISBN978-0-9669-2268-4

Jacques Maritain was one ofthe leading French and Thomistphilosophers of the twentiethcentury. He was particularlyfond of America and its politi-

cal experiment in liberal democracy. He taught at fourAmerican universities and came to know the young repub-lic first hand. Maritain and America explores the engage-ment of his thought with the American political experimentin representative democracy and the culture of liberal indi-vidualism that it has fostered.

Pope Benedict XVI: An Introduction to His Theological VisionThomas Rausch, SJ Paulist Press, Mahweh, NJ, 2009Hardcover; 195pp; $22.95; ISBN 978-0-8091-0556-4

Thomas Rausch, SJ, profes-sor of Catholic Theology at Loy-ola Marymount University,presents a helpful overview andcritique of the theological visionof Joseph Ratzinger, now PopeBenedict XVI with special atten-tion to his view of Scripture aswell as his Christology, ecclesi-ology, and liturgical theology.

The Reception of Pragmatism in France and the Riseof Roman Catholic Modernism, 1890-1914 Edited by David G. Schultenover, SJCatholic University of America Press, Washington,D.C., 2009Cloth; 247pp; $69.95; ISBN 978-0-8132-1572-3

This collection of essays provides a small revolution inthe study of Roman Catholic Modernism, a movement thatuntil now has been largely seen as an episode that under-scored institutional Catholicism’s isolation from the main-

stream intellectual currents ofthe time. By recasting theprovincial story within atransatlantic intellectual-cul-tural framework-that is, theFrench Catholic Modernists’reception of the pragmatism ofWilliam James, the toweringgiant of American intellectuallife-the present volume turns aconfessional “Catholic” episodeinto a broadly “catholic” one. Itexplains precisely why Mod-ernism was a rather universal

phenomenon, finding expression in non-Christian reli-gions, Russian Orthodoxy, and mainline Protestant denom-inations as well as in Roman Catholicism.

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“One shock I had as I began to teach religion to high-school students was how uncomfortable high-school students are with the word “faith.” There might be no better way to reduce a class to silencethan to ask the question: ‘So, who wants to talk about his faith in Jesus?’”

MICHAEL MAGREE (MAR) IS A JESUIT SCHOLASTIC CURRENTLY IN REGENCY AT ST. JOSEPH’S PREPARATORYSCHOOL IN PHILADELPHIA, PENN. HE TEACHES CHURCH HISTORY TO JUNIORS AND OLD TESTAMENT TOFRESHMEN AND WRITES FOR THE BLOG WWHHOOSSOOEEVVEERRDDEESSIIRREESS..WWOORRDDPPRREESSSS ..CCOOMM..

He said to them, “When I sent you forth without a money bag or a sack or sandals, were you in needof anything?” “No, nothing,” they replied. -Luke 22:35

“8 days and just under 3,000 miles later, I’m back at Loyola House in lovely Berkley, Mich.

The nature of setting out on the road with 25 dollars in pocket and a one-way bus ticket generated anextraordinary set of encounters for me, be they encounters with people, with places, with events or,most especially, the interior encounters with the One who lead me. Much to say, too much to try to dojustice at the moment, especially when I have thank-you letters to pen for the many good and generouspeople who helped me at various points along the way.”

MATTHEW SPOTTS (CHG) RELATES HIS EXPERIENCES FROM HIS PILGRIMAGE IN HIS BLOG ““AANNDD WWHHIITTHHEERRTTHHEENN?? II CCAANNNNOOTT SSAAYY”” AATT MMAATTTTHHEEWWSSPPOOTTTTSSNNSSJJ..BBLLOOGGSSPPOOTT..CCOOMM..

By Ed Schmidt, SJ

In 2000, I had some work to do in north-ern Italy, and my best option was to fly toMilan and travel onward by train. I had nevervisited Milan, so before heading home I spenttwo nights with the Jesuits in the center of thecity. Close by lies the Duomo, the venerablecathedral with its massive piazza in front. Thisis the heart of Milan.

When I climbed up from the metro at theDuomo stop, I found the streets barricaded toaccommodate a bicycle race. Later, a politicalrally filled the great space. I walked out afterdinner, expecting to find the piazza back tonormal. It was about 8:30 at night and it wasdark.

This time, the low barricades had beenmoved to isolate the piazza. Thousands ofexcited young people milled around beyondthe barricades, laughing and talking. A fewminutes later the huge bronze doors of thecathedral swung open and light flooded outinto the piazza. The police opened the barri-cades and the crowd rushed through. Quick-ly 10, 12, perhaps 15,000 young people wererunning towards the open doors of the church.Quite a sight!

The occasion was a special liturgy, the tra-ditio symboli, handing over the Creed to thecatechumens who would be baptized a weeklater at Easter Vigil. Cardinal Carlo Maria Mar-tini, archbishop of Milan, had turned thisliturgy into a faith testimonial for young peo-ple, for whom he had particular concern.Solemn and professorial, Martini had a draw

on young adults of Milan, generating energylike a rock star. They listened to him. Theycheered for him. They loved him.

Martini took young adults seriously. Earlyin his time as bishop, he sat on the steps of the

cathedral to talkwith them and learntheir world. Whensome asked himhow to pray with thebible, he scheduledsessions in thecathedral that grewquickly from 200 to2,000 a month laterand, in a couple ofyears, to 25 church-es linked by radio.

He appreciatedtheir struggles. He told a Jesuit retreat grouprecently that as the archbishop he met a lot ofyoung people during parish visitations. Butthere were many more he never met, those forwhom Church is not a part of life. Martini said,“I wrote to them, and I asked for an answer.And I received thousands of answers of youngpeople not going to church or having left thechurch, telling their reason. And whatimpressed me very much was that some said,‘When I am in the company of my friends, Iam joyful. I am the one who proposes things,initiatives, play and so on. But when I come tomy room, I am profoundly alone and sorry formy life. I see no sense in my life.’” Church doesnot offer them the life that they find with theirfriends. It is more like being alone.

I returned to Milan the following year,hoping to understand better where Martini’sappeal came from. After the liturgy, Iapproached a small group from a suburbanparish and asked them what they found soattractive in him. They tossed the questionaround for a while in Italian and English untila young woman answered, “He’s authentic.”When Cardinal Martini spoke, they knew thathe believed, and they believed with him.

This year the traditio focused on St. Paul.A lector imagines Paul looking around inCorinth, a vibrant, noisy port. People frommany lands pass through Corinth, mixing lan-guages and religions, all pushing for a betterlife. Everyone is in a hurry. Paul wonders:“Every instant of this hurry can be a threat oran opportunity. How can I proclaim the Gospelhere? Where do I start?”

We have a lot in common with Paul’sCorinth, another commentator notes. Ourcities grow larger, but we lack a sense of place.So many people meet but fail to communi-cate. “We need certainties,” he says, “but wedon’t know where to look for them. How muchsearching and how much fear do we encounterin our streets?”

Many of us might feel more at home inCorinth, a proto-postmodern metropolisabounding in diversity, than in the rationalAthens, where Paul earlier tried to proclaimChrist. We live in Paul’s experience. Youngadults today are very much citizens of Corinth.

How do we minister to these youngCatholics? We have resources. Even withoutCardinal Martini’s scholarship and depth, we

have Sacred Scripture as a powerful start-ing point. We have our own insights into itspower. We have our own prayer.

Cardinal Martini is also profoundlyexperienced in the Spiritual Exercises. Hehas led a great variety of retreats, alwaystailored to the group he was with. He nevergave the same retreat twice! Each wasunique. And each was rich and memorable.We, too, have the Exercises as a particulargift of St. Ignatius that speaks clearly to ourworld, which finds God in the world as it isand that challenges us to hear the voice thatcalls to our better selves.

These two resources can have profoundimpact on young Catholics. They give us alead into how to revivify young Catholicparticipation in Church life. Young Catholicstell us they long for spirituality. They longto connect. They want to know themselves,their tradition and the possibilities theirtradition offers. All of our ministry, Ibelieve, must work towards this connection.Other things matter a lot, excellent schoolsfor example, but without this connectioneverything else is diminished.

We also have our credibility. A vast net-work of graduates brags that they are “Jesuiteducated.” They know our name and rec-ognize our mission. And they have friendswho are also seeking to be Catholics inmodern life and asking how to make thishappen.

We also have our Jesuit vocations, ourresponse to the God we meet in Scriptureand in the Exercises, and we have our col-lective living of that vocation. Our first com-panions changed Catholic Europe with thatvocation. We can reshape our world. YoungCatholics want that and are ready for it. Weneed to accept their challenge.

Ed Schmidt, SJ (CHG) is the formerProvincial of the Chicago Province of theSociety of Jesus.

Reaching Today’s Young CatholicsNew Possibilities, New Demands, New Commitments

Cardinal Carlo MariaMartini


In Memoriam

BBrr.. CChhaarrlleess JJ.. BBlloouuiinn(NOR), 84, died onAugust 10, 2009 inNew Orleans, La. Hewas a Jesuit for 47years. Born in Gonza-les, La., he entered theSociety in 1962 andtook his final vows in1977.

FFrr.. HHaarroolldd BBrraaddlleeyy(MIS), 84, died onJuly 10, 2009 inWauwatosa, Wis. Hewas a Jesuit for 59years and a priest for48 years. Born inAtchison, Kan., heentered the Society in1950, was ordained in1961 and took hisfinal vows in 1965.

FFrr.. TThhoommaass DD.. CCuulllleeyy(NOR), 81, died onJuly 14, 2009 in NewOrleans, La. He was aJesuit for 58 years anda priest for 44 years.Born in Holdenville,Okla., he entered theSociety in 1950, wasordained in 1965 andtook his final vows in1985.

FFrr.. CCllaauuddee DDaallyy(NOR), 93, died onJune 9, 2009. He wasa Jesuit for 77 yearsand a priest for 66years. Born in Austin,Texas, he entered theSociety in 1931, wasordained in 1943 andtook his final vows in1949.

FFrr.. JJoosseepphh HHeebbeerr tt(MIS), 93, died onAugust 8, 2009 in St.Louis, Mo. He was aJesuit for 75 yearsand a priest for 62years, Born in Den-ver, Colo., entered theSociety in 1934, wasordained in 1947 andtook his final vows in1950.

FFrr.. FFrraanncciiss JJ.. KKooww--nnaacckk ii (MAR), 80,died May 31, 2009 inBronx, N.Y. He was aJesuit for 61 yearsand a priest for 48years. Born inPhiladelphia, Pa., heentered the Society in1947, was ordainedin 1960 and took hisfinal vows in 1964.

FFrr.. EEddwwaarrdd JJ..MMuurraawwsskk ii (NEN),77, died on July 3,2009 in Weston,Mass., He was a Jesuitfor 52 years and apriest for 43 years. Heentered the Society in1957 and wasordained in 1966.

FFrr.. CChhaarrlleess MMuurrpphhyy(WIS), 85, died onAugust 1, 2009 inWauwatosa, Wis. Hewas a Jesuit for 59years and a priest for47 years. Born inGreen Bay, Wis., heentered the Society in1950, was ordained in1962 and took hisfinal vows in 1965.

FFrr.. PPhhiilliipp PPiicckk (WISapplied to MIS), 93,died on August 14,2009 in St. Louis, Mo.He was a Jesuit for 69years and a priest for59 years. Born inWest Bend, Wisc., heentered the Society in1939, was ordained in1950 and took hisfinal vows in 1975.

FFrr.. WWiill lliiaamm AA.. RRyyaann(MAR), 94, died onJuly 19, 2009 in Meri-on Station, Pa. He wasa Jesuit for 77 yearsand a priest for 64years. Born in Balti-more, Md., he enteredthe Society in 1932,was ordained in 1945and took his finalvows in 1949.

FFrr.. PPaassqquuaallee ““PPaatt””MM.. SSppoolleettiinnii (ORE),87, died on May 21,2009. He was a Jesuitfor 63 years and apriest for 55 years.Born in Bellegra,Italy, he entered theSociety in 1946 , wasordained in 1954 andtook his final vows in1964.

FFrr.. JJ.. RRiicchhaarrdd VVaann--ddeeVVeellddee (CHG), 74,died on August 11,2009 in Chicago, Ill.He was a Jesuit for 56years and a priest for41 years. He enteredthe Society in 1953,was ordained in 1968and took his finalvows in 1978.

I am the resurrectionSaints of God, come to their aid!Hasten to meet them, angels of the Lord!Receive their souls and present them to God the Most High.May Christ, who called you, take you to himself;may angels lead you to the bosom of Abraham.

--Rite of Christian Funerals

We invite you to celebrate the lives of these recently departed Jesuits. To read their complete obituaries,please visit http://www.jesuit.org/obits.

Fr. Raymond H.Reis (MIS), a retiredpriest at St. LouisUniversity who wasa longtime profes-sor and also hadworked as a nurse,died July 19 at age104 at his universi-ty residence.

He was theworld’s oldest Jesuit.

According to the St. Louis-Post Dispatchdaily newspaper, officials of the Society ofJesus learned from the order’s headquar-ters in Rome that Father Reis became theoldest member of the order after the recentdeath of a Jesuit in Mexico.

In 2005, when he turned 100, FatherReis told the university’s magazine: “I havehad an enjoyable life and I have done a lotthat I wanted to do. I used to like to travel,but now I have no plans. I just let thingshappen.”

Asked if he had any advice for reachingthe century mark, he responded with achuckle: “That’s something that’s a gift fromGod.”

Born March 25, 1905, in St. Louis, theyoung Reis joined the Jesuits in Floris-sant in 1926 after college. He earned adoctorate in biology in 1940 at St. LouisUniversity and went on to teach at Mar-quette University in Milwaukee and whatis now Rockhurst University in KansasCity, Mo., both Jesuit institutions.

From 1961 to 1973, he taught biolo-gy at St. Louis University.

In 1956 Father Reis’ father, Valentine,

donated 225 acres of land, mostly oak-hickory forest, to the university to estab-lish the Reis Biological Station. Operatedby the biology department to promoteenvironmental and biological researchand education, the station is located inthe eastern Ozarks of Missouri, about100 miles southwest of St. Louis.

Father Reis retired in 1973 but thenreturned to school, studying nursing atthe university. Until 1992, when heretired for the second time, he worked asa nurse for residents of Jesuit Hall, theuniversity’s residence for Jesuits.Fr. Raymond H. Reis

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Theodore W. Walters, SJ

Back in 1992, Fr. Joseph Daoust, ourDetroit Provincial, asked me if I wouldlike to help a struggling college run bythe Bishops’ Conference in Tanzania. I hadexperience in both our universities andhigh schools and had spent a year inKorea and Germany after completing mydoctoral studies so I readily agreed. Itlooked like an interesting place to work,although I was 66 at the time and had noidea how long I would be there. Now I amcompleting my seventeenth year in Tan-zania. During this time, the collegebecame a university and, under a dynam-ic vice chancellor, now has some 6,000students.

I’m sometimes asked not what Iaccomplished but what benefits I got outof this experience. I assume many otherJesuits given the opportunity to serve inmission fields will experience similarbenefits.

I’ve divided the benefits into threegroups: those that derive from any mis-sionary work, personal and individual ben-efits I have gotten from this experience and.among the latter, I will single out those thatreflect a richer appreciation of what we havein America.

Missionary Benefits

Any effective missionary needs arespect for this new and different culture.The respect comes gradually, as you see theculture being lived out in the lives of thepeople. Are family life and religion impor-tant? You’ll know this from how the peoplelive. Are children and the elderly treatedwith esteem? When you see brothers car-rying their little sisters to church on Sun-days or fathers hand in hand with theiryoung daughter, you realize the cohesion ofCatholic families and the way children enterinto this loving unity.

At the same time, the missionary quick-ly learns to adapt to these foreign culturesespecially where they differ from his ownexperience at home. Not only this, but ittakes living in a foreign culture to under-stand his own culture better and to realizeits own strong and weak points.

Respect for the poor can’t help but growas the missionary comes into daily contact,say, with a child at his door begging for alittle money. That gives you a better senseof what it is to be poor than any book you’veever read. A visit to anoint a dying personin an untidy bed in his mud-and-wattlehouse shows you how poorly they live everyday.

One cannot overestimate the value ofsuch personal contact. You realize and

admire how many persons survive, evensomehow thrive, under harsh circum-stances, and you want to learn more aboutwhat there is about their character thatmakes this possible. You also know howmany things we who live in developed coun-tries take for granted, such as clean, run-ning water, enough food, a variety of meals,regular health care, good education, librariesstocked with the books we need and all therest.

And yet you must continue to believethat God is present in these wretched situ-ations and that somehow it all fits into hisplan for us.

Personal Benefits

First, as with Jesuits everywhere, is aconviction that we are members of oneJesuit family the world over. Whether inToledo or Timbuktu, we share the same val-ues and are wedded to the same calling. Weare determined to follow Christ our broth-er wherever he leads and to minister to himin the people of many colors and many lan-guages we see all around us. I admire theChurch as a potent force for hope in thetowns and hinterlands of Africa, where it isgrowing very strong.

I have told many people I find it easy to“find God” here in this verdant, rural areaof East Africa where our University is locat-ed. All this has given me a deeper under-standing of my work and God’s plan forsaving the world. Something that has helpedis the joy of living a relatively simple lifeclose to so much natural beauty. There are

many birds and flower-ing trees all about,abundant sunlight andrain, a moderate cli-mate, good people andwild animals in theirnatural habitats in thenearby game reservesand parks like theSerengeti and Ngoron-goro Crater.

Undoubtedly, themajor change in mypersonal attitudes hasbeen a significantgrowth in patience. You

get used to the inconveniences of life in EastAfrica: no dependable supply of water, fre-quent power breakdowns, cold showers, theprevalence of people and events running on“African time.” I suspect I would never havedeveloped even a limited amount ofpatience if I hadn’t lived in Africa. Aboveall, I have come to appreciate in God’s planfor us the value of setbacks and disap-pointments.

From my first days in Tanzania, I’veenjoyed teaching public relations to our stu-dents, and large numbers specialize in thisfield. I am proud of the way they are con-tributing to the lives of Tanzanians orKenyans or any of the seven other EastAfrican countries from which they herald-ed. Providing for young men and womenfrom poor families has been possible onlythrough the “co-missionary” spirit andkindness of many friends in America.

Richer Appreciation for America

In addition to the above benefits, I nowappreciate more the value of many excel-lent American institutions, whose qualitybecomes apparent mainly by comparisonwith their counterparts in Africa. In par-ticular, it has been easy to appreciate thestrength of our Catholic educational sys-tem, with its moral, religious, civic and per-sonal values and the lifelong influence thatit has made in our lives and productivity.Every aspect of these educational systemscould be compared with Africa and Amer-ica would come out very much stronger.This is not just a matter of finances, thoughthis obviously has a big effect, but a ques-tion of priorities in poor countries, dedica-tion to a clear goal and a determination toachieve success.

I tell all my friends: if you are fortunateto live and work in a foreign country for awhile, you will count your blessings whenyou get back home.

Fr. Walters (DET) continues to teach andwrite from Tanzania. He has written Find-ing God through the Catholic Faith, The Joyof Believing and the professional book Pub-lic Relations and the Church. He is gratefulfor the prayers and generous support of hisfellow Jesuits and friends.

Seventeen Years inTanzaniaA Chorus of Blessings

Everyone stops to shake hands before returning home after Mass. Photo courtesy of Theodore Walters, SJ

Vice Chancellor Fr. Charles Kitima prepares to award the FAWASOsports trophy, named by the students after Fr. Walters as senior fac-ulty member. These sports events bring together large numbers of Uni-versity students and local people. Photo courtesy of Theodore Walters, SJ

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