Ja Aung, a young woman from Myanmar, serves as a volunteer teacher in a school in Kachin State located in a non-government controlled area (NGCA). She is herself an Internally Displaced Person (IDP); she had to leave her hometown because of conflict and find a place...
When interviewing for my role as the Director of Communications for the Australian Province last year, I asked one of the interview panels: “What does success in this role look like – in the first 90 days, six months, year?” I distinctly recall being told that in the...
This week, the Society of Jesus is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Secretariat for Social Justice and Ecology (SJES), born in 1969 at the request of Fr Pedro Arrupe SJ. The anniversary is a kairos, a historic moment for the Society of Jesus to renew its...
The Australian Jesuits announced on October 30 a new expanded operating model and governance structure for their spirituality ministry beginning January 1, 2020, in response to a changing world and an evolving, more spiritually discerning community. The changes...
