Australian Province (ASL)
Missioned to the Conference
The Conference team is expanding and strengthening. Consultations between the President and Provincials over several months have resulted in the missioning of Jesuits from various...read more
Xavier relic on pilgrimage of grace in Australia
A relic of St Francis Xavier has begun a three-month “Pilgrimage of Grace” in Australia. The relic is Xavier’s right forearm, which has been kept...read more
Promoting the First Spiritual Exercises
The Christian Life Community in Australia has made giving and promoting the First Spiritual Exercises an apostolic work. For the last six years, the First...read more
Leading for mission
Jesuit Social Services CEO Julie Edwards recently spoke to Catholic Health Australia about leadership in the context of a Catholic service. She addresses the elements...read more
Reflections on Jesuit Identity
At the International Colloquium on Jesuit Secondary Education in Boston, Fr Danny Huang SJ, Regional Assistant for Asia Pacific, posed 10 points of reflection from the Procurates,...read more
Encouraging leadership in service among students
Students from five countries in Asia Pacific gathered in the Philippines in July for a reflective and experiential forum designed to give them an understanding...read more
Building up the social sector
The social apostolate needs to be approached from the perspective of Ignatian Spirituality, which provides a new way of seeing all things. Fr Patxi Alvarez...read more
Rare books about China from Boston College’s Jesuitica Collection now online
Fr Jeremy Clarke SJ, an Australian Jesuit and assistant professor of history at Boston College in the United States, has launched Beyond Ricci, www.bc.edu/beyondricci, a...read more
Reflecting on governance arrangements
Typhoon Vicente reached Hurricane Signal 10 overhead as the half yearly Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP) Major Superiors’ assembly continued calmly indoors in Macau’s...read more