Father General

After visiting Australia, Father General briefly traveled to the Region of East Timor. This young country, with 1.3 million inhabitants, is experiencing great dynamism as regards its relationship with the Society of Jesus...

The cities of Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide on the Oceania continent intrigue us as well as the continent as a whole. Father General visited Australia in the second half of January.

Father General visited the Colégio de Santo Inácio de Loiola (CSIL) and the Instituto São João de Brito (ISJB), on Saturday 3 February. He took part in the graduation ceremony at the university-level institute specialising in the formation of teachers...

What is unique about this Jesuit Region of Timor-Leste is its international character as it is composed of both local and foreign Jesuits who have been together for several years now. Another unique characteristic of the Region is its young age...

Fr Arturo Sosa continues his discovery of the Australian Province. Another flight of less than two hours took him from Melbourne to Adelaide. Add some two hours by road and you’re in Sevenhill, the cradle of the Jesuit presence in this vast country...

The Kostka Chapel, a sacred space with around 70 seats, includes high-quality stained glass windows representing the Stations of the Cross. These were part of the chapel in the former Kostka Hall, which was recently closed. The chapel will be used...

On 29 January, Father Sosa spent a large part of the morning at Jesuit SocialServices. This social center belongs to the long tradition of Jesuit institutions that value social research as well as advocacy and concrete engagement...

Among the visits Father General made to the works of the Australian Province in Sydney was to the parish of St Canice, well known for its soup kitchen, which is generally referred to simply as St Canice’s Kitchen. Father Sosa was able to meet some of the people...

Jarjum is a local Aboriginal word for “young person” or “child”, and Redfern is simply the townwhere the school is located. The College Crest tells a lot about Redfern Jarjum College. The colours of the crest are those of the Aboriginal flag...

At more than 16,000 km from Rome, Father General is taking part in the Assembly of Major Superiors of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP). This is an opportunity for personal meetings with his closest Jesuit collaborators in the Conference...

Fr Arturo Sosa is back on the road to visit the Australian Province for the first time. We asked the Provincial, Fr Quyen Vu, to tell us what his Jesuit companions and mission partners are expecting from this encounter...

The Society can no longer simply focus on the formation of its members, but is increasingly called upon to offer opportunities and even programmes of formation to “non-Jesuits”, lay people or religious women and men from other congregations, who are active partners in the Society’s mission.