Fr. O.P. Mathew was the first vocation and the first Jesuit from the Chirackal Mission in Kerala founded by the Italian missionaries. He joined the Society as a Brother, but was later ordained a priest…

Fr. Stanley J. D’Souza was born on July 4th, 1932, in Zanzibar, East Africa.  After his school education in Bombay, BE in Pune and MS in the US, he entered Milford Novitiate, USA, in 1957,…

Fr. X. Savarimuthu, a remarkable priest and spiritual director of Jesuits, other men and women religious and lay people, made a significant impact on the spiritual journey of many in Tamil Nadu Catholic Church in…

Fr. Lancy Pereira was a man who was fascinated by the deep mysteries of life, strove to understand them and encouraged others to make their own explorations. His life was one relentless quest to get…

It is a Herculean task to write the obituary of a multifaceted and multitalented personality like that of Fr. Vasco do Rego, SJ, of Goa Province. He was a student counsellor, spiritual father of Rachol…

Fr. Ronald Menezes, SJ, was born on 10th March 1972 in Mangalore. He joined the Society of Jesus on 20th June 1994, and took his first vows on 21st June 1996. He was ordained a…

I hardly knew Fr. Rudy before June 2018.   Just two and a half years later, I wish I had met him earlier in my life.  I would have learned so much from his vast…

I always found something unique in the company of Augustine and we became good friends in the Society.  Augustine came across as a confident and fearless person.  He had earlier worked in a government office. …