2025

On 27 September the General Curia in Rome welcomed staff and their families into its garden for an Open Garden event. This annual event, though it might seem at first like a simple social gathering, carried both a deep sense of community and history...

On this Jubilee Year dedicated to Pilgrims of Hope, JRS invites you to welcome refugees and migrants and the gifts they bring us. On the weekend of 4–5 October 2025, the Church will celebrate the Jubilee of Migrants in Rome in the presence of Pope Leo XIV. Two days of encounters...

Do you have questions about the upcoming Meeting of Major Superiors? You are not alone! To bring you along as preparations ramp up ahead of the event, we have put together some of the most common questions. Think of this as a guide to help you find out...

Let us pray that believers in different religious traditions might work together to defend and promote peace, justice and human fraternity.

The leadership team of the International Society of Jesuit Ecumenists recently came to Rome to consult with Father General and his counsellors about the place of ecumenism in the Society of Jesus. Fr Dorian Llywelyn, SJ, gives us his reflections following those meetings.

In February 2019, Pope Francis missioned the Society of Jesus with the Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs). The fourth Preference, “To collaborate in the care of our Common Home”, is grounded in Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical Laudato si’...

On September 26, the feast day of the Canadian Martyrs (according to the Canadian liturgical calendar), the Jesuit community of Quebec City, in union with the Catholic Church of Quebec City and at the invitation of its pastor, Cardinal Gérald Lacroix, will commemorate...

The Society of Jesus has a long tradition of engaging in ecumenism within the Catholic Church. In the video, three Jesuit experts – Dorian Llywelyn, Markus Schmidt, and Thomas D. Hughson – reflect on the Jesuit approach to dialogue, collaboration, and reconciliation among Christian traditions...

Father Arturo Sosa visited the Province of Slovenia from 19 – 20 September. A key highlight of his trip was the centenary celebration of the St Ignatius of Loyola House of Spiritual Exercises in Ljubljana which was built in 1925. The celebration began with...

In a compelling convergence of faith, science, and ethical innovation, the Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar (JCAM) convened the African Jesuits in Science (AJIS) Symposium 2025 under the theme “Smart Planet, Just Future: AI and Ecology in the Fight for Sustainability”...

The House for Spiritual Exercises (today St Ignatius Retreat House), located in the heart of Ljubljana, was built between 1924 and 1925 at the request of the Jesuits, who were aware of the need to offer spiritual retreats. It is the oldest retreat house in Slovenia and is part...

Father General Arturo Sosa is visiting the Province of Slovenia from 19 – 20 September. The Central European country has a modest yet meaningful presence of Jesuits who are engaged in different ministries, including pastoral care, youth outreach and education...