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Companions on Mission Formation Education Family Values Middle East Provincial Dear Friends, V. Rev. Thomas J. Regan, SJ As I write these words, two recent events really stand out in my Provincial Assistants mind as being emblematic of my six years as provincial. The first Rev. John J. Higgins, SJ event occurred on March 17 when I celebrated Mass for all those who Socius/Executive Assistant work at the provincial offices. The gospel for the feast of St. Patrick comes from the fifth chapter of Luke and focuses on Jesus’s command Rev. John T. Butler, SJ to Peter to put out into deep water and lower his nets for a catch. In Director of Vocations describing the scene, Luke notes that the catch is so abundant that Rev. Robert J. Daly, SJ hauling it in is only possible because sailors from a nearby boat come Assistant for Higher Education to the aid of Peter and his mates. He writes, “They came and together they filled the two boats until they nearly sank” (Luke 5:7). Rev. Richard A. Deshaies, SJ Assistant for Formation I couldn’t help but think that a similar action is repeated again and again each day throughout the New England Province. The stories and pictures in this edition of Margaret T. Florentine JESUITS reveal so powerfully how Jesuits working in schools, parishes, retreat houses, Assistant for Secondary Education in chaplaincies, in formation, and in caring for our elderly are able to do what we do because we work alongside so many dedicated men and women who believe in our Rev. Michael D. Linden, SJ Assistant for International, apostolic works as much as we do. Together we “pull in the nets,” as it were, in a way that Pastoral and Social Ministries would never be possible for Jesuits to do by themselves. Similarly, on March 19, a second event took place, this time at the Marriott Copley Catherine R. Morency, RN Place in Boston. Over 750 people gathered together to celebrate the annual Jesuit GALA Province Health Care Coordinator at which Joe and Rose Corcoran received the 2009 Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam Award (see pages 16–17). The evening was such a great success because so many people worked so Alice Poltorick hard to make it happen. From the very first days of the Society of Jesus, St. Ignatius, our Director of Communications founder, always considered our benefactors to be true “partners on mission.” For me, the GALA celebration really put a very human face on that reality, for which my brother Grace Cotter Regan Executive Director of Jesuits and I remain deeply grateful. Advancement As you will see on page 3, Father Adolfo Nicolás, General of the Society of Jesus, has appointed Fr. Myles Sheehan to succeed me as provincial. When he recently Sr. Clare Walsh, MHSH visited Boston, I had the occasion to discuss the scope and dimensions of his new Assistant for New England Ignatian Spirituality in the Jesuit responsibilities. “Don’t worry,” I said, “What initially might seem to be a daunting task Collaborative is eminently doable, for as you will soon discover, there are many fabulous and dedicated people in the boat with you!” Rev. Dennis J. Yesalonia, SJ Please know of my abiding gratitude for all the concern that you have shown for the Treasurer New England Province and for me personally throughout these past six years. Be assured Province ConsUltors that I shall continue to hold you and your loved ones in my prayers. Rev. John J. Higgins, SJ Sincerely, Rev. Paul D. Holland, SJ Rev. Robert G. McMillan, SJ Rev. William E. Stempsey, SJ Associate ConsUltants (Very) Reverend Thomas J. Regan, SJ Rev. Robert J. Daly, SJ Provincial, New England Province of Jesuits Rev. Philip A. Pusateri, SJ (R.I.P.) ADVANCEMENT COMMITTEE Randall P. Seidl William R. Durgin Elizabeth Bourque John J. Shaughnessy, Jr. Paul F. Healey John J. Bowen William J. Teuber, Jr. Peter C. McKenzie Patrick Carney Emmet E. Tracy, Jr. Robert J. Morrissey Patricia A. Casey Sean P. O’Neil Ann Marie Connolly INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Jack M. Connors, Jr. COMMITTEE FINANCE COMMITTEE John J. Griffin, Jr., Esq. Mary Corcoran William P. Egan Francis C. Mahoney Ellen Keohane Joseph P. Fallon John J. Mahoney, Jr. Robert J. Ostiguy Michael J. Lochhead John A. McNeice, Jr. Judith A. Malone, Esq. Joseph E. O’Leary, Esq. INVESTMENT COMMITTEE John H. McCarthy Catherine L. O’Neil Philip M. Byrne Mary Coffey Moran Deborah P. Reed Richard F. Connolly William Supple FEATURES Spring 2009 • Vol. 5, Issue 1 PUBLISHER Thomas J. Regan, SJ EXECUTIVE EDITOR Alice Poltorick ASSOCI ATE EDITORS Charles B. Connolly, SJ Richard H. Roos, SJ EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ADV A NCEMENT Grace Cotter Regan CONTRIBUTING WRITERS /EDITORS Charles B. Connolly, SJ Meg Florentine Alice Poltorick Grace Cotter Regan LA YOUT /DESIGN Pat Mullaly, Circle Graphics 1 CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGR ap HY Richard Deshaies, SJ Justin Knight Michael Linden, SJ Alice Poltorick Richard H. Roos, SJ Reflections from a Jesuit in Formation. .10 Ron Wozniak, SJ Jesuit Alumni in Congress. .11 Celebrating Jesuit Secondary Education. 12 Ignatius Behind Bars. 14 Annual Jesuit GALA. 16 COVER : Grace Cotter Regan, Ignatian Family Values . .20 executive director of Advancement, Rose and Joe Corcoran, AMDG Award Working with Jesuits in the Middle East. 22 honorees, and Fr. Tom Regan, SJ, provincial of the New England Province of Jesuits, at the annual A Conversation with Fr. Charles Dunn, SJ. 30 Jesuit GALA on March 19. More photos on pages 16 and 17. JESUITS is published twice per year by the New England Province and is available online: www.sjnen.org. IN EVERY ISSUE Please address all correspondence to: Advancement Office, Provincial Letter . Inside Front Cover New England Province Province News. .2 of Jesuits, P.O. Box 9199, Watertown, MA 02471-9199 Advancement. .26 Phone: 617-607-2895 Email: [email protected] In Memoriam . 32 © 2009, New England Province Words to Live By. Inside Back Cover of Jesuits. All rights reserved. Printed in USA. Province News New Assignments Fr. Robert L. Keane, SJ, Chaplain Corps, Fr. Robert J. Araujo, SJ, has been U.S. Navy, Promoted to Captain appointed the inaugural holder of the new John Courtney Murray, SJ University On January 5, brother Professorship at Loyola University in Jesuits, family and Chicago. In addition to his other duties, friends attended the he will be teaching at Loyola’s Law promotion ceremony School. of Fr. Robert Keane, SJ, to the rank of captain, at the Officers Club at Mr. Christopher Ryan, SJ, was recently the Naval Station in Newport, Rhode Island. missioned to Nativity School of Provincial, Fr. Thomas J. Regan, SJ, 2 Worcester for his regency. He will teach congratulates Fr. Keane. Fr. Keane’s siblings, Paul religion and Spanish. Michael Keane, Andrea Keane Burke, and Patricia Keane Kennedy (the sisters pictured at left) participated in the Frocking Ceremony. Mr. Thomas M. Olson, SJ, has been After a buffet luncheon, missioned to Fairfield College Preparatory tours of the Naval School for his regency. He will join the Chaplains School theology department and will be teaching Fr. Keane with his sisters. were held. Fr. Keane, full-time. director of training at the Naval Chaplains School, has departed to Okinawa for his new assignment. On January 16, Keane was interviewed for the This Is the Day program on Catholic TV about his Bro. Jonathan J. Stott, SJ, has been experiences as a priest and chaplain in the military. The missioned to the Vatican Observatory in interview can be viewed on www.catholictv.org Tucson, Arizona, for his regency. To read Fr. Keane’s vocation story, visit Vocations i Stories under the Become a Jesuit section on ▼ www.sjnen.org Gallagher Honored with Catholic Historical Association Award In January, New England Jesuit Charles R. Gallagher, SJ, received the American Catholic Historical Association’s John Gilmary Shea Prize for his book Vatican Secret Diplomacy: Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII, (Yale University Press). The John Gilmary Shea Prize is given annually to the author of a book, published during a preceding 12-month period, which is judged by a committee of experts to have made the most original and distinguished contribution to knowledge of the history of the Catholic Church. Mr. Gallagher with Mrs. Mercedes Hurley Hughes and Mrs. Georgia Kurz, nieces of Archbishop Joseph P. Hurley, papal diplomat and bishop of the Diocese of St. Augustine, Florida. Province News Fr. Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, is Appointed Provincial of the New England Province n Thursday, February 19, 2009, The Role of the Provincial – Administrator of OAdolfo Nicolás, SJ, Father General Cura Personalis and Visionary Leader of the Society of Jesus, appointed In the Company of Leaders was the title of the province’s Fr. Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, the next annual report. Over the past six years, the New England provincial of the New England Province Province has been blessed to be in the company of, and of Jesuits. Fr. Sheehan will succeed benefit from the leadership of, our provincial, Fr. Thomas J. Fr. Thomas J. Regan, SJ, whose six-year Regan, SJ. term will end on July 30, 2009. The provincial is the administrator of cura personalis, Fr. Sheehan was born on April 18, the formation and well-being, of the members of the 1956, in Marshfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from Society of Jesus in New England. Over the course of each 3 Thayer Academy, Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1974. year, he meets with every Jesuit to receive an “account of Prior to entering the Society of Jesus, he completed his conscience,” to prayerfully discern the spiritual, physical undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College and doctorate and ministerial development of each man.