🎉Seventeen Jesuits were ordained deacons on Saturday April 20, at Saint-Sulpice Church in Paris, including our Haitian brother Rivelt Silnéus, SJ.
Join us in congratulating Rivelt on this significant milestone, and let us keep him and Haiti, his native country, in our prayers.

A massive honor: We welcomed the peerless Marilynne Robinson onto the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation with Fr. Joe Simmons, SJ, a Marquette University theology professor who wrote his doctoral dissertation on Robinson and Woolf. open.spotify.com/episode/6lGUcD…

Pope Francis addressed worldwide concerns of war, peace, famine and climate change — expressing heartfelt prayers for children suffering from the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine. During a rare one-on-one interview with Norah O'Donnell 🇺🇸, his Holiness urged all nations

EXCLUSIVE: Pope Francis calls for countries at war to negotiate: “A negotiated peace is better than a war without end.” cbsn.ws/3JTtgoJ

News: #PopeFrancis tells CBS Evening News that he speaks with members of a parish in #Gaza via phone every evening at about 7 pm. 'It's very hard,' Francis says. 'Very, very hard. Food goes in, but they have to fight for it.'

Pope Francis has never sat down for an extensive interview, one-on-one, with a U.S. television network. That changed when we spoke to him here in Rome. Part of our global exclusive tonight on the CBS Evening News and more to come on 60 Minutes

Special announcement: Outreach is again partnering with the Writers Guild Initiative to offer two virtual writing workshops for 15 LGBTQ Catholics on May 11 and 18 from 2-5 p.m. EST. First come, first serve! The workshops are free and participants must commit to both sessions.

.Marquette University was pleased to welcome The Very Reverend Arturo Sosa, SJ, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, as well as directors and board chairs of Jesuit works and ministries of the Milwaukee area on April 7, 2024.

As leader of the Jesuits throughout the world, Father

How the pontifical university founded by St. Ignatius is changing to meet the needs of modern students americamagazine.org/faith/2024/04/…

Check out the variety of responses at Outreach on the new Vatican declaration 'Dignitas Infinita.' Most recently, two articles, from very different vantage points, from papal biographer Austen Ivereigh Austen Ivereigh and theologian Daniel Horan, OFM.
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The documentary BUILDING A BRIDGE (2021) executive produced by Martin Scorsese has been released on DVD & Blu-ray

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#dvd #bluray #buildingabridge #documentary #martinscorsese #LGBT #lgbtq #fatherjamesmartin Gravitas Ventures Building a Bridge James Martin, SJ

Grateful for the thoughtful contributions to Outreach from a range of writers engaging with the recent Vatican doc on human dignity, 'Dignitas Infinita,' which has both been praised and criticized for sections related to LGBT people. Here's a round up of our coverage. 🧵

Thanks to Michael J. O'Loughlin our new Outreach executive director, for leading our team in an all-day strategic planning session today. With Gods help, we have some great things planned. Stay tuned!

A key synod adviser says Pope Francis is more interested in deepening the practice of synodality within the Catholic Church rather than wading into debates over the hot-button issues

My NCR report on Anna Rowlands’ Mary Ward lecture in Cambridge:

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Gospel: Many years ago in Nairobi, I saw a Maasai shepherd say quietly, 'Kuja.' ('Come.') to his flock of sheep and they all looked up immediately, though there were many other voices and noises around. Today Jesus says his sheep know his voice (Jn 10). We are called to be as

My article in Outreach : Yes, Vatican must engage more with experience of “trans” community. But LGBT leaders in the Church are wrong to dismiss gender theory & ideology as a “strawman”. Both are real, and Rome is right to reject them. outreach.faith/2024/04/papal-…