“The Christian of the future will be a mystic or not a Christian at all” - (Karl Rahner). That future has already arrived but not fully yet. Ignatian spirituality properly comprehended has a critical place…

The Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary (DHM), has just celebrated the bi-centenary year of the death of their co-founder, Fr. Peter Joseph de Cloriviere, a Jesuit priest, who went to his…

Every pastor is called to walk alongside the people of God, guiding them, learning from them, journeying with them in struggles and successes. [auth] Pope Francis through his life, writings and concrete initiatives, shows how…

During his apostolic journey to India in 1964, the first ever by a Pope, addressing the representatives of different religions on December 3, 1964, Paul VI had said “Yours is a land of ancient culture,…

The development of social action in the Patna Jesuit Province was spectacular. The beginnings qualify as a case study for understanding the meaning of three terms which Jesuits consider as defining characteristics of their mission:…

Patna Mission, later to become the Patna Jesuit Mission, was entrusted to the Society of Jesus by Pope Benedict XV in 1919. The then General Vladimir Ledochowski commissioned the Missouri Province of the USA in…

It was 1921, and history will change for the better in Bihar. Five American Jesuits had arrived in Patna and they would make immense contribution to the life and education of the people of Patna…

We Jesuits, motivated by the deep personal love of Jesus, have a strong desire to imitate our Creator and the Lord Jesus Christ as He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. [auth] The…