Curia

The Bible is open to Ecclesiastes 8:1 which reads: “Who is like the wise? Who knows the explanation of things? A person’s wisdom brightens their face and changes its hard appearance.”

Fr. Ignatius Tete, an Indian Jesuit, is based at St. Stanislaus College in Hazaribag. Since 2011, he has been the instructor for Tertianship, the last stage of formation that Jesuits go through before their last vows.

Illustrates a child’s imagination, and its parallels to God’s creations. Imagination stems from a youth’s environment and its role as the source of their initial creative pursuits. Drawing their pets, family, backyard, or classroom...

The boys in this photograph were captured creating with chalk powder in a JRS school in Kfar Zabad, Lebanon. Being Syrian refugees, these youths have faced hardship beyond what words can describe. Despite being displaced and marginalized...

He stares at us while his family is stressed and worried at the train station in Lviv, Ukraine. Blindness and sight, darkness and light are metaphors Christ often used to describe the spiritual realm. This piece bears the seal of the Society of Jesus...

The Jesuit world uses its own vocabulary that is sometimes not very accessible to outsiders. For example, the word “Socius”. The Provincial Superior always has a “Socius”, as does the Master of novices. From November 6-11, at the General Curia...

In 2021, Fr. Arturo Sosa invited the Jesuit artist Arturo Araujo to create a series of artworks to bring to life the corridor that runs alongside his office. Conversations between the Superior General and the artist led to the proposal of a graphic representation...

Herbert Keller is a Jesuit from the United States who teaches theology and works in pastoral ministry at Scranton Preparatory School in Pennsylvania. Throughout his apostolic life in the Society of Jesus, he has served in the field of education...

Meeting at the Curia of the “Commission on the Role and Responsibilities of Women in the Society of Jesus” – Here are the testimonies of three Commission members at the end of their week together.

One of the main initiatives taken by the “Women’s Commission” of the Society has been to organize a worldwide survey. Here, the director of the project tells us more about the goals, methods and status of their enterprise.

Have you ever heard of the Jesuit missionary Martino Martini? Although his work on China was one of the most important sources of knowledge about that Oriental country in the 17th century, he is still not well known.