Inspirational Jesuits

Saint Paul Miki

February 6, 2017

The founding of the Society of Jesus coincided in time with the discovery of new continents and peoples across the world by Europeans. Saint Francis Xavier, one of the founding...

Inspirational Jesuits

Pierre Jean De Smet

January 30, 2017

Since the very formation of the Society of Jesus, members of the order have travelled vast distances to put themselves at the service of others. Pierre-Jean De Smet made it...

Inspirational Jesuits

Saint Edmund Campion

January 25, 2017

One of many Catholics to suffer at the hands of the English government in the wake of Henry VIII’s separation from the Church of Rome, Saint Edmund Campion was forced...

Inspirational Jesuits

Michel de Certeau

January 10, 2017

It has been said of French Jesuit academic and scholar Michel de Certeau, who died in 1986, that he had "an intelligence without bounds".

Inspirational Jesuits

St Peter Canisius

December 21, 2016

Hailed as the Second Apostle of Germany, Saint Peter Canisius dedicated his life to the revitalisation of the Catholic Church across Central Europe after the ruptures of the Reformation.

Inspirational Jesuits

Jacques Dupuis

December 7, 2016

Having spent decades of life in India in the midst of a culture so different to his own, Jacques Dupuis was an avid advocate of interfaith dialogue and religious pluralism,...

Inspirational Jesuits

Saint Francis Xavier

December 2, 2016

An important task as seen by the early Jesuits was to travel far and wide to offer their services, and none travelled farther than Saint Francis Xavier.

Inspirational Jesuits

Bernard Lonergan

November 23, 2016

Canadian Jesuit Bernard Lonergan was a 20th century philosopher and theologian of immense importance. Specifically he worked within the Thomist tradition, but not in a narrowly neo-scholastic way.

Inspirational Jesuits

Pedro Arrupe

November 14, 2016

As Father General of the Society of Jesus for eighteen years, Pedro Arrupe navigated the Order in the years following Vatican II and focussed the efforts of the society on...