In the latter half of September, I accompanied 11 young people from Japan to a peace camp called “Youth Peace Festival”, where they interacted with Korean youth. Throughout the pandemic, our group in Japan had been communicating online with Fr Peter Kang of Uijeongbu...
Drumming up the ripple effects of Laudato sí with Laudate Deum (LD) on world leaders, especially the delegates who are preparing to meet in Dubai for the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference from 30 November to 12 December, is indeed commendable. The hermeneutical lens...
Fr Primitivo “Jun” E Viray Jr SJ was formally installed as Provincial of the Philippine Jesuits on November 17 in a Eucharistic celebration at the Oratory of St Ignatius, Loyola House of Studies. He took over from Fr Antonio Moreno SJ who has been appointed as...
The Philippine Jesuit Province will welcome a new Provincial Superior with the appointment of Fr Xavier L Olin SJ. He will take over from Fr Primitivo Viray Jr SJ, who has been appointed as the next President of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP). Fr Olin...
Almost a decade ago, Jaeseok and I began our novitiate journey in Korea as part of a class of six novices. On 23 September, we were ordained to the diaconate along with three American scholastics at the Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola in Chestnut Hill,...
