Communications Office

On the same day that Pope Leo XIV celebrates the Eucharist in front of St. Peter’s with the tens of thousands who have gathered for the Jubilee of Consecrated Life, the Vatican officially released the Holy Father’s first Apostolic Exhortation, Dilexi Te...

“Ukama” – a word from the African Shona language – can be translated as everything is connected to everything. It’s also the name of the Jesuit centre in Nuremberg, Germany, which is dedicated to socio-ecological transformation. During his visit to Germany, Father General...

As in many other European countries, interest in matters of faith is declining among young people in Germany. This is especially true for Catholic youth aged 12 to 25, as the 2024 Shell Youth Study notes: “For young people belonging to the...”

We know a lot about the ‘Canadian Martyrs’, starting with Jean de Brébeuf. But let’s be guided by a lesser-known but no less fascinating Jesuit, Fr Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot. He was born in 1611, the same year that two Jesuits came to Port-Royal, Acadia, and...

When Peter Faber welcomed Petrus Canisius, a native of the Diocese of Cologne, as the eighth member of the Society of Jesus in 1543, he laid the foundation not only for the saint’s blessed ministry but also for the deep and lasting roots of the Jesuit Order in Germany...

Father General has appointed Fr. Jean Luc Enyegue as the new Provincial of the West African Province (AOC) of the Society of Jesus.

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’...