jesuitS Central and Southern Fall 2018

Jesuit Brothers: Companions in Jesus

Ordination in P.R. | Lessonsxxx from | xxx Angola | xxx | Working for Racial Justice Dear friends in the Lord, Queridos amigos en el Señor,

Headlines often capture the Los titulares a menudo capturan los eventos significant events of the moment. significativos del momento. Mientras escribo esto, la crisis As I write this, the abuse crisis and de abusos y su legado exigen merecidamente nuestra its legacy rightfully demand our atención. El santo padre y el padre general han hecho un attention. The Holy Father and llamado a la Compañía de Jesús y a la Iglesia entera para Father General call the Society of atender esta situación crucial, cuidando a quienes han Jesus and the whole Church to attend experimentado abusos y tomando los pasos necesarios to this critical situation, caring for para garantizar la seguridad de todos los niños de Dios. those who have experienced abuse and taking steps Tras los titulares, sin embargo, continúa el trabajo to ensure the safety of all God’s little ones. silencioso y estable de Dios en y a través de la Compañía Beneath the headlines, though, the quiet steady de Jesús. Esta revista recalca esa realidad y nos brinda una work of God in and through the Society of Jesus fe renovada que Él que nos ha bendecido con hombres tan continues. This magazine highlights that reality and maravillosos como los hermanos Markoe y el padre Fichter gives us renewed faith that the One who has blessed continúa llamando nuevos apóstoles para servir al Señor. us with such wonderful men as the Markoe brothers Leerán sobre la ordenación del padre Fernando Luis and Fr. Fichter continues to raise up new apostles to Barreto Mercado, una ceremonia conmovedora en la serve the Lord. parroquia San Ignacio de Loyola y un momento de You will read of the ordination of Fr. Fernando Luis consolación para la Compañía y la Iglesia mientras Puerto Barreto Mercado, a moving ceremony at St. Ignatius Rico se recupera del huracán María. Se encontrarán con Loyola Parish and a moment of consolation for the novicios según ellos enfrentan los desafíos de la prisión Society and the Church as Puerto Rico recovers from Angola. La historia larga de nuestros ministerios en El Hurricane Maria. You will encounter novices as they Paso, Albuquerque y en Our Lady of the Oaks les brinda faced the challenges of Angola Prison. The long history un vistazo de la variedad profunda de tareas que los of our ministries in El Paso, Albuquerque and at Our jesuitas y nuestros colegas realizan. Verán rastros de la Lady of the Oaks gives you a glimpse of the rich variety obra de Dios en las vidas de Chris Farrell y de John Fava. of works that Jesuits and our colleagues perform. You Mucho de esto se encuentra bajo la superficie, pero will see the traces of God’s work in the lives of Chris testifica a un Dios laborando entre nosotros. Farrell and John Fava. So much of this lies beneath the Sin embargo, nuestro ministerio depende de nuestros surface but testifies to God laboring among us. compañeros laicos. La generosidad extraordinaria de Yet, our ministry depends on our lay partners. tiempo y espíritu de la señora Joan Gaulene recalca eso. The extraordinary generosity of time and spirit of Ms. Sabemos también que dependemos de ustedes para Joan Gaulene highlights that. We know, too, that we ayudarnos a continuar el trabajo hecho por tantos de rely upon you to help us continue the work done by so nuestros predecesores, y que continúa hoy en tantos many of our predecessors, continued today in so many lugares. Gracias por su generosidad. places. Thank you for your generosity. Tengan por seguras nuestras oraciones por ustedes Please be assured of our prayers for you and all y por todos los que aman. Por favor, recen por nosotros, whom you love. Do pray for us, that we may respond para que respondamos cada vez más completamente a la ever more fully to the call of Christ. llamada de Cristo.

Sincerely yours in the Lord, Sinceramente suyo en el Señor, Ronald A. Mercier, SJ Provincial, Provincia USA Central y Meridional

Ronald A. Mercier, SJ Provincial, USA Central and Southern Province

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8 | Ordination in Puerto Rico First for this Province

10 | Jesuit Brothers: Companions in Jesus The Vocation to the Brotherhood

14 | Novices Visit State Penitentiary 8 Focus on Catholic Social Teaching

10 10 Jesuits Central and Southern Volume V • Number 3 14 Fall 2018 16 | Golden Jubilarians 50 Years of Service Editor Therese Fink Meyerhoff 18 | Jesuits and Racial Justice Contributor Responding to Call Claire Peterson Designer 22 | Albuquerque, El Paso, Tracy Gramm 22 Our Lady of the Oaks Advancement Director Celebrating Milestone Anniversaries John Fitzpatrick

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Province Responds to Clergy Sexual Abuse Scandal Referring to letters from Pope Francis and Jesuit Superior General Arturo Sosa, Provincial Ronald A. Mercier called on all Jesuits of the USA Central and Southern Province to observe a day of prayer and penance in solidarity with the victims of sexual abuse. His call came in the wake of the Pennsylvania grand jury report and the downfall of former-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. He also asked the directors of the various Society of Jesus Begins Beatification province works to choose a date for a Process for Pedro Arrupe, SJ similar observance. “After discussion with my Consultors, Jesuit Superior General Arturo Sosa announced in July that the I ask all Jesuit communities to take Society of Jesus has initiated the process of beatification for former Saturday, Sept. 15, the Feast of Our Lady Superior General Pedro Arrupe, SJ. of Sorrows, as a day of fasting and prayer,” As required by the Catholic Church, the diocese of Rome Fr. Mercier wrote. “The road ahead will approved the opening of the process. It is the first step on the path involve all of us in responding to this to canonization, in which the Church formally declares a person a crisis and so it is right that we pray and saint. Father Arrupe is already considered a “Servant of God.” fast in union with one another, seeking This announcement indicates the Society of Jesus is willing to forgiveness of the sins that have been, commit resources to advance Fr. Arrupe’s cause for sainthood. This but also moving us to hunger and thirst may include work such as cataloging his letters and gathering for justice in solidarity with victims testimony from people who knew him. of abuse and all those who remain Father Arrupe was born in 1907 and entered the Jesuits at the age vulnerable.” of 20. He was ordained in 1936 and moved to Japan in 1938 to work Father Mercier noted that this day as a missionary. He was near Hiroshima when the U.S. dropped an of prayer and penance is just one step in atomic bomb on the city. addressing the crisis, but one which will He was elected the 28th superior general in 1965, while the serve to prepare the Church for what Second Vatican Council was underway. He proceeded to steer the lies ahead. focus of the worldwide Society to include more social justice issues. MORE webON THE For instance, he is responsible for the founding of Jesuit Refugee Services, which today provides education to refugees in more than The letters from Fr. Mercier and Fr. General Sosa 50 countries. are available on the province website, www.JesuitsCentralSouthern.org. He served as superior general until 1983 and died Feb. 5, 1991.

4 Jesuits | Fall 2018 MilestonesMilestones

Seven Enter the Novitiate; Six Pronounce First Vows A Jesuit’s formation begins in the novitiate, Peter Gadalla, SJ, (center) was ordained to the diaconate in the Coptic Rite on July 17 in Cairo, Egypt, by His Beatitude, where he spends two years learning about Patriarch Ibrahim Issac Sidrak. He was joined by the Society of Jesus. This August, seven William Manaker, SJ and Provincial Ronald Mercier, SJ. men entered the Novitiate of St. Stanislaus Kostka in Grand Coteau, La.: Reynaldo Belfort, Timothy Bishop, Travis Crowe, Brent Gordon, Joseph Nolla, Nicholas Reed and Sonny Vo. The following day, Aug. 11, six second- year novices pronounced First Vows, bringing their own novice experience to an end and sending them forth to begin the next stage of Jesuit training as scholastics. Ángel Flores, Joshua Hinchie, Marco Machado, Jeff Miraflor, Jorge Roque and Connor Smith pronounced perpetual vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, Father Andrew Kirschman, SJ, Father Jeffrey Johnson, SJ, committing themselves for life to follow pronounced final vows on pronounced final vows Christ and to participate in his ministry Aug. 5 in Grand Coteau, La. on Aug. 31 at Strake Jesuit as Jesuits. College Preparatory Novices spend their time learning about in Houston. the Society of Jesus, how to pray and live in community and how to serve; in short, a novice learns what it means to be a companion of Jesus in the Church and the world today. The province invites your prayer for the men in formation any time, but especially in the coming weeks. The first-year novices will experience the Spiritual Exercises as Gregory Waldrop, SJ Matthew Baugh, SJ Stephen Kramer, SJ a full 30-day silent retreat throughout the month of November. The second-year Father Gregory Waldrop, SJ, pronounced final vows on novices will be on “experiment” during this Sept. 6 at Holy Name of Jesus Church in New Orleans. time, getting hands-on experience in Jesuit Matthew Baugh, SJ and Stephen Kramer, SJ, were ordained schools. to the diaconate on Sept. 15 in Boston.

Fall 2018 | Jesuits 5 New Leadership for New to St. Matthew’s Parish Province in St. Louis Staff St. Mathew the Apostle Parish in The Jesuits St. Louis recently welcomed a of the USA new leadership team. Provincial Central and Ronald A. Mercier, SJ, missioned Southern Cheryl Archibald as parish life Province coordinator and Kevin Cullen, SJ, welcomed Sr. Sr. Amy Diesen as pastoral associate on July 29. Amy Diesen, Ms. Archibald will run the OSF, as the new director of Ignatian day-to-day operations of the Volunteer Corps – St. Louis. Sister parish. She has served as pastoral Diesen, a member of the Franciscan associate at St. Matthew’s for five Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual years. Help, began her work with IVC on Father Cullen, who has been in residence at St. Matthew’s for two years, Aug. 20. will preside at liturgies and provide the sacraments for which priestly “I am grateful for the oppor- ordination is required. tunity to serve with and for the Former pastor Patrick Quinn, SJ, now serves as mission coordinator volunteers, reflectors, agencies and for staff outreach at Regis University in Denver. the Jesuit community as we journey deeper into God’s love through our encounters with the poor and one another,” Sr. Diesen said. Sister Diesen has a master’s degree in pastoral studies from the Aquinas Institute of Theology, and served as pastoral associate at Christ, Prince of Peace Parish in Manchester, Mo., and St. Joseph Parish in Lebanon, Ill. Cheryl Archibald Kevin Cullen, SJ Patrick Quinn, SJ

Upcoming Vocations Events The vocations staff is hosting several events this fall, including: Oct. 7: Vocations Meet & Greet, Regis University, Denver Oct. 14: Jesuit Vocations Night, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Mo. Oct. 26–28: Come and See Weekend, Saint Louis University, St. Louis Dec. 17–21 & Jan. 2–6: Discernment Retreats, Jesuit Novitiate, Grand Coteau, La. Any young man who is discerning his call to serve God in the Church as a Jesuit is encouraged to contact Fr. Randy Gibbens for more information: [email protected] or 314-896-1534.

6 Jesuits | Fall 2018 Jesuit Archives & Research Center Blessed

he new Jesuit Archives T& Research Center (JARC) in St. Louis was formally blessed and dedi- cated on Aug. 22. Most Rev. Robert J. Carlson, Archbishop Robert Carlson (left) blesses the new Jesuit Archives & Research archbishop of St. Louis, Center. Above: Jesuit historians and authors John O’Malley, John Padberg and Thomas Lucas celebrate the opening of the new Jesuit Archives & Research Center. blessed the building and made brief remarks to a crowd of about 100 donors, Jesuits, colleagues, staff and friends. “It is God who inspires in the human spirit the desire to record and preserve through archives and books and other means the discoveries of the human mind that open the way to truth,” Archbishop Carlson said. “It is therefore fitting that your work of conserving archives and books, as a form of spreading divine truth, should have the support of God’s blessing.” Father Provincial Ronald A. Mercier, SJ, expressed gratitude to the donors who made the new JARC possible, as well as the provincials of the other provinces in the United States who have entrusted their histories to this JARC Director David Miros and Provincial Assistant for Advancement shared facility. He particularly thanked Dr. David Miros, John Fitzpatrick accompany Archbishop Carlson on a tour of the new archives. archivist and JARC director, who oversaw the project from concept to completion. “This will be a living and dynamic hub, one already being used by scholars from this country and beyond,” Fr. Mercier said. “Its structure is designed to be filled with light, and its purpose is to shed light on our history … always looking for the truth that helps us not only understand our history, but reflect on how we shall shape the future. Who knows what new perspectives will emerge from the work to be done here?”

The staff at the new Jesuit Archives & Research Center includes Jake Klusman, Ann Knake, David Miros, Maddie McDermott and Sr. Mary Schmittgens.

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Fernando Luis Barreto Mercado, SJ, (left) is joined by Archbishop Roberto O. González, OFM; Puerto Rico Superior Fr. Flavio Bravo and Provincial Ronald A. Mercier.

Province Celebrates Ordination in Puerto Rico

he Jesuits USA Central and vicar at St. Ignatius Loyola Parish, formation for new teachers at Southern (UCS) Province where he was ordained and cel- Colegio San Ignacio, the Jesuit high celebrated the ordination ebrated his first Mass on Sunday, school in San Juan, and also taught Tto the priesthood of Fernando Luis July 29. confirmation classes at St. Ignatius Barreto Mercado, SJ, on July 28, After earning bachelor’s degrees Loyola Parish. in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Most in finance and actuarial science He studied Chinese for two Reverend Roberto O. González in 2001, Barreto Mercado worked years in Taipei, Taiwan, before Nieves, OFM, Archbishop of San for PricewaterhouseCoopers in beginning his theology studies. Juan, presided at the ordination at Atlanta for one year and for Cigna After a year of theology in Taiwan, St. Ignatius Loyola Parish, the Jesuit Healthcare in Hartford, Conn., Barreto Mercado was missioned parish in San Juan. for three years. He entered the to the Jesuit School of Theology of This is the first Jesuit ordination Society of Jesus in Santiago de los Santa Clara University in Berkeley, in Puerto Rico since the island Caballeros, Dominican Republic Calif., earning a Bachelor of Sacred became part of the UCS Province in 2004. Theology and a Master of Divinity in December 2014. Father Barreto He earned a Licentiate in degree in May. While at Berkeley, Mercado is from Ponce, Puerto Rico, Philosophy from the Pontifical he served as a deacon in multiple and entered the Society of Jesus University of Salamanca and a grad- communities. when Puerto Rico was an indepen- uate degree in Ignatian spirituality Fathers W. Penn Dawson, dent region. from Comillas Pontifical University Jason C. LaLonde, Michael J. Father Barreto Mercado will in Madrid. He taught computer Wegenka and David C. Paternostro serve for the next year as parochial science and helped with Ignatian were ordained in St. Louis on June 9.

8 Jesuits | Fall 2018 La provincia celebra una ordenación en Puerto Rico os jesuitas de la Provincia USA Central y Meridional (UCS) celebraron la ordenación presbiteral de Fernando Luis Barreto Mercado, SJ, el 28 de julio, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. S.E.R. Mons. LRoberto O. González Nieves, OFM, arzobispo metropolitano de San Juan, presidió la ordenación en la parroquia San Ignacio de Loyola en San Juan. Esta es la primera ordenación jesuita en Puerto Rico desde que la isla se unió con la Provincia UCS en diciembre del 2014. El padre Barreto Mercado es de Ponce, Puerto Rico, y entró en la Compañía de Jesús cuando Puerto Rico era una región independiente. El padre Barreto Mercado servirá el próximo año como vicario parroquial en la parroquia San Ignacio, donde fue ordenado presbítero y donde celebró su primera misa el domingo, 29 de julio. Tras obtener bachilleratos en Finanzas y Ciencias Actuariales en el 2001, Barreto Mercado trabajó por un año para PricewaterhouseCoopers en Atlanta y para Cigna Healthcare en Hartford, Connecticut, por tres años. Entró en la Compañía de Jesús en Santiago de los Caballeros, República Dominicana, en el 2004. Obtuvo una licenciatura en Filosofía en la Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca y un postgrado en Espiritualidad Ignaciana en la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas en Madrid. Enseñó clases de Computadoras y ayudó en la formación ignaciana de nuevos profesores en el colegio San Ignacio, la escuela secundaria jesuita en San Juan, y enseñó también clases de Confirmación en la parroquia San Ignacio. Estudió chino mandarín por dos años en Taipéi, Taiwán, antes de empezar sus estudios teológicos. Después de un año de teología en Taiwán, Barreto Mercado fue enviado a la Jesuit School of Theology de Santa Clara University en Berkeley, California, completando un bachiller en Teología Sagrada y una maestría en Divinidad en mayo. Mientras en Berkeley, sirvió como diácono en múltiples comunidades. Los padres W. Penn Dawson, Jason C. LaLonde, Michael J. Wegenka y David C. Paternostro fueron ordenados en San Luis el 9 de junio.

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n the beginning, the Society of Jesus was made up of pilgrims and preachers and Ipriests. They had mystics and missionaries … but not a carpenter or cook among them. The original Companions were men of many talents who sought to bring souls closer to God, but they were unprepared to make their own meals or clothing, let alone build schools. And so, just six years after the founding of the Society of Jesus, Ignatius Loyola petitioned the pope to allow the admission of lay co-adjutors – or helpers – known more commonly as brothers. His request was approved, and brothers began to build the Society. “Although St. Ignatius founded a ‘priestly order,’ it became immediately apparent that Jesuit if the priests were to do their ministry … ‘coadjutors’ or assistants were needed to build and maintain the institutions, as well as to Brothers provide for the necessities of daily living.” (Jerome Neyrey, SJ, in Indispensable Companions in Jesus, Companions: Jesuit Brothers of the South from Colonial Times to the Present) Partners in Mission Saint Ignatius outlined in the General Examen that brothers would help with “nec- essary exterior matters,” generally understood as the more hands-on tasks. But Ignatius also noted that brothers “may be employed in The apostolic importance more important matters in accordance with of“ the Jesuit Brother, since our the talent God gave them.” (The Formula of the Institute of the Society of Jesus, in the communities are essentially apostolic, Constitutions of the Society of Jesus) derives from the fact that “They came with considerable craft,” all the members of the community Fr. Neyrey said. Many, in fact, were true give to the community everything artisans, including architects and artists whose work has stood the test of time. But they have and are.” others entered with limited training, and Superior General Pedro Arrupe the Constitutions forbade brothers seeking on Oct. 31, 1978, the feast day additional education, a rule adhered to (more of St. Alphonsus Rodríguez or less) until later pronouncements from General Congregations. Today the educational requirements for a Jesuit brother are similar to those of a Jesuit priest.

10 Jesuits | Fall 2018 companions

Post-Suppression Laborers to Today’s Renaissance Men Following the restoration of the Society the life of any religious organization. He has also served as president in 1814, the role of the Jesuit brothers of Good Shepherd Nativity School in New Orleans and taught and devolved into one of more menial tasks, and served in campus ministry at the Jesuit high schools in Tampa and a sense of class began to emerge within the New Orleans. As a master electrician, he also has the skill required Society and within Jesuit communities. The to oversee the complete renovation of St. Charles College, the Jesuit brothers attended to the physical, earthly community in Grand Coteau, La., as he did from 2010 to 2013. needs of the community. They served as Brother Huck sees the role of the brother as “the servant of the cooks, gardeners, tailors and infirmarians. servants. Brothers are humble. They are generous. There is an As needs evolved, brothers became mechanics, earthiness that people are attracted to because they see Christ in plumbers and electricians. Well into the 20th that … Everyone needs a brother to talk with sometimes.” century, the work of the Jesuit brother was Brothers are occasionally referred to as “lay religious.” They live hidden: while priests were public figures, in religious communities and they profess vows of poverty, chastity brothers quietly did what was needed for priests to do their sacramental work. The role of the brother began to change significantly – when else? – in the 1960s. The Society’s 31st General Congregation, convened in 1965, attempted to eliminate social distinctions between brothers and priests in community life by affirming that brothers “have a full share” in “one and the same” apostolic vocation with priests. Five years later, the World Congress of Brothers proclaimed, “[H]ence there are no second-class Jesuits, but only companions in Jesus in one same apostolic work.” Jesuit brothers today can still be found caring for sick Jesuits … or ailing boilers.

But they also serve as high school teachers, Brother Robert Macke (opposite) takes measurements in the meteorite lab at the Vatican Observatory. campus ministers and researchers. Perhaps Above: Brother Lawrence Huck welcomes family members on entrance day at the novitiate. the best-known Jesuit brother today is Guy Consolmagno, SJ, of the Maryland and obedience, but they are not ordained priests, nor are they Province, who serves as director of the preparing for ordination. Instead, the brotherhood is a vocation of Vatican Observatory. Working with him is its own, one that for many is just the right fit. Br. Robert Macke of the USA Central and “Brothers can do anything and everything a priest can do, except Southern (UCS) Province. Brother Macke sacramental ministry,” said Br. John Fava, who serves as a police may be one of the world’s foremost scholars chaplain in St. Louis. “I just think the opportunities for brothers are on meteorites. limitless.” Brother Lawrence Huck, SJ, also has a “We might think of brothers as exercising a priestly ministry— somewhat unusual role for Jesuit brothers. He not only as members who support a corporate sacerdotal mission, was recently missioned as the Socius, or com- but precisely in the way that they themselves, as individual brothers, panion, to the novice director. He is the first bring Christ to the world and the world to Christ,” Br. William Rehg, Jesuit brother to serve in that position for the SJ, wrote in Value and Viability of a Jesuit Brother’s Vocation (Studies UCS province, a role of real significance in in the Spirituality of Jesuits, Winter 2008).

Fall 2018 | Jesuits 11 represent Jesuit brothers and promote the vocation. Two members of the UCS Province are active on the committee: Br. Huck and Br. Fava. Brother Fava entered the Society of Jesus because he wanted to teach and was attracted Brother William Rehg meets with a to Jesuit life. He first considered becoming a Jesuit scholastic in his office on the brother while in the novitiate, but it was while campus of Saint Louis University. he was teaching that the idea really took hold. “How can I better serve the students? Do “The Jesuit brother, in other words, witnesses to the value of the I need to be a priest to do this?” he asked Jesuit vocation precisely as a religious vocation, apart from any himself. He determined that freedom from position one might have as a priest in the ministerial hierarchy.” sacramental duties would allow more time and Brother Rehg first became interested in “some kind of religious energy for his students; there is no doubt in or missionary life” while still in grade school. He entered the Society his mind that he made the right decision. In of Jesus in 1976 on the “priesthood track,” but requested a change another decision aimed at service to others, in his grade to that of brother in 1988. he later became a permanent deacon, enabling “I really love being a Jesuit, but I was not attracted to the priest- him to preside at weddings, baptisms and hood,” he said. Instead he was struck by the spirit of the brothers funerals. he saw in his community. “The vocation just fit.” “I felt that God, the Society and God’s people After changing grades, he entered a doctoral program at were calling me to the permanent diaconate, Northwestern University. “At the time, it was still kind of unusual to serve them,” Fava said. “I answered that call. for a brother to get a Ph.D.,” he said. “You did not see a lot of I’m serving any way I can, and I enjoy doing it. brothers working in higher education.” He has taught philosophy I’m doing what I was called to do.” at Saint Louis University since 1992 and currently serves as dean Brother Glenn Kerfoot met the Jesuits at of the College of Philosophy and Letters, the department in which Regis College (now University), where a Jesuit Jesuit scholastics study. priest accompanied him through the Rite of The Jesuit Brothers Committee of Canada and the United States Christian Initiation for Adults and baptized plays an important role in the changing perceptions of the vocation him. He began to consider life as a Jesuit. to the brotherhood. It first began in 1978, lasting only a year before “When I think of my vocation story, I don’t being reinstituted at the request of the U.S. provincials in 1980 to consider it a ‘call,’ I consider it an invitation,”

“I felt that God, the Society and God’s people were calling me to the permanent diaconate, to serve them. I answered that call. I’m serving any way I can, and I enjoy doing it. I’m doing what I was called to do.” – Brother John Fava

12 Jesuits | Fall 2018 Br. Kerfoot says. “God sent an invitation, and they serve in a wide range of assignments, Notable it was up to me to reply.” He entered in 1986. some scholarly, some ministerial, some Jesuit Brothers Having grown up as a non-Catholic hands-on. Br. James Kisai was one of the 26 first Martyrs of Christian, he was drawn to community life, The decline in the number of Jesuit Japan. He was canonized to preaching, and to the study and sharing brothers is a concern to some. As far back along with his companions of Scripture, but not to the priesthood. “The as 1978, Superior General Pedro Arrupe in 1862, the first of six maintained that the brothers’ contribution, Jesuit brothers to be priesthood never resonated with me,” he said. declared saints by the “I never felt like I had an invitation to the “both to community life and that of the Church. priesthood. I am called to be a Jesuit, but not apostolate, is irreplaceable … the extinc- tion of this grade of Brothers would be Br. Nicholas Owen built the to be a priest.” “priest holes” throughout With a bachelor’s degree in mathematics a great loss, a mutilation with grave parts of England when and a master’s in theology, Br. Kerfoot served consequences for the body of the Society Catholics were persecuted in campus ministry at Rockhurst University and for its apostolate.” during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and James I. in Kansas City, Mo., for ten years and taught Fortunately, men still hear the invita- He was martyred with at St. John’s College in Belize City, Belize, tion to serve as a Jesuit brother. The men Edmund Campion in the entering the Society of Jesus Tower of London and was in recent years are intentional canonized in 1970. in their vocation; they choose the brotherhood because of the “fit,” not because of obstacles such as age or limited education. “We are all part of the priestly charism of the Society. Brothers share in that. So, the question is, how Br. Andrea Pozzo was do we help others encounter a master architect who God?” Br. Kerfoot says. specialized in perspective; “Today the vocation of he created a trompe l’oeil “dome” on the flat brother is as broad as the ceiling of the Church of Society of Jesus. We go where Brother Glenn Kerfoot's work as minister in a Jesuit community St. Ignatius in Rome. requires planning for and addressing a variety of needs. the needs are.” “Ignatius thought obedi- for another ten. He currently serves as the ence was the vow we should be best at,” Br. minister of Xavier Jesuit Center in Denver. Rehg said. “To be a Jesuit is to be a person Like Br. Rehg, Br. Kerfoot petitioned to whose vocation is marked by obedience, change grades to become a brother. At the an openness to being missioned. The time, this was not uncommon: men drawn Jesuit brother serves wherever and how- to the Society began the journey to priestly ever he is needed.” ordination only to discover their “invitation” Yesterday, today and tomorrow: Jesuit to another vocation. brothers go wherever they are needed St. Alphonsus Rodríguez was In the early years of the Society, as many and do whatever needs to be done. the doorkeeper at the Jesuit community in Majorca, but his as 25 percent of Jesuits were brothers. Today profound spirituality prompted there are fewer than 100 brothers in the others to seek both his prayers United States, less than 5% of the total Father Jerome Neyrey’s book Indispensable and his counsel, including St. number of Jesuits. The UCS Province is Companions: Jesuit Brothers of the South from Peter Claver. He died in 1617 Colonial Times to the Present can be ordered and was canonized in 1888. home to 20 brothers. As with all brothers, through Amazon.

Fall 2018 | Jesuits 13 formation Novices Focus on Catholic Social Teaching

ife in the novitiate is a two- strength of the poorest of the poor Most inmates, approximately year stretching of the heart – those who are locked away for 85 percent, are serving life sentences. Lto allow each novice to hear where life, many of whom have no family There is a significant need for Jesus is calling him to serve. Some of and will never experience freedom, spiritual care attuned to the unique this stretching happens in the class- yet who have such strong faith and challenges of life without parole. room, but much of the “heart work” desire to serve.” Chaplain Jackson plans ministry, happens when the novices open The penitentiary is an 18,000- classes, spiritual direction and themselves to encountering others, acre, maximum-security facility Catholic Masses at each of the especially those on the margins. often referred to as simply “Angola,” camps. He coordinates funerals for Each spring, second-year because of its origins as plantation men who die in prison, including novices participate in an immersive land, once worked by enslaved contacting family members and next teaching workshop aimed at intro- people reportedly brought from of kin. “Three to four years is about ducing them to the theories and Angola, Africa. The novices spent realities of Catholic social teaching; their day there with Catholic the three-week seminar happens Chaplain Gerald P. “Jay” Jackson, both inside and outside the class- hearing stories of life on the inside room. If the novitiate is the “school from the men who experience it. of the heart,” then this Catholic “Just like Mother Teresa said, social teaching workshop is a ‘I want to feed the poorest of the central part of its field work. Among poor,’ I want to help the worst of many places, the Louisiana State the worst. Because that’s who Jesus Penitentiary becomes an unlikely came for,” one inmate told the classroom to probe questions of novices. “Please help the worst of faith, community and vocation. the worst.” This plea aligns with the “We began including a retreat Jesuit mission to serve the greatest at the prison to give the novices an need, a call the novices clearly hear. experience of being ‘evangelized The segregated communities by the poor,’” said Mary Baudouin, inside Angola house more than Chaplain Jay Jackson debriefs with the novices provincial assistant for social 6,000 men in a series of “camps” after a full day inside the prison. ministries. “The novices get to see that are far enough apart that and hear firsthand the faith and visitors must drive between them.

Entrance gate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola Prison

14 Jesuits | Fall 2018 how long visitors last, then friends and family move on,” Jackson says. “Because of the isolation, it’s some- times hard to find next of kin or a friend who visited within the last 15 years to notify of the death.” Many men find solace in the vibrant religious communities they create at Angola. One particularly strong community is a group of Catholic Peer Ministers. These men take graduate-level courses in theol- Second-year Jesuit novices outside the prison with Fr. Bryan Garry, SJ, and Mary Baudouin, ogy to be able to minister to fellow provincial assistant for social ministry inmates. Together, the novices and ministers attended Mass celebrated his last breath, into the morgue, chamber. All capital punishments in by Fr. Bryan Garry, SJ, shared a meal and through the funeral and burial. Louisiana are carried out at Angola. and heard personal testimonies. They also dig graves for those men As he does with every group, One man said to the novices, who have died inside Angola. “The Jackson invited the novices to pray “I’m a devout Catholic and this is Process,” as it’s called at the prison, the Our Father with him, each with a my family, so welcome to my family. is entirely internal; inmates even hand placed on the gurney used when Without the Church I would be construct the wooden caskets. the death penalty is carried out. In a stripped and robbed of my humanity.” Volunteering on hospice is powerful call to reconciliation, Jackson Others spoke of the importance of considered a testament to an encouraged the novices to remember prayer to the health and faith of inmate’s character and work ethic, this gesture when praying the Our individuals and the community: and it is both emotionally and Father in the future, particularly the “We unify ourselves by showing physically demanding. Mike has words, “forgive us our trespasses as we that prayer is active.” worked for 25 years at the treatment forgive those who trespass against us.” Many of the Catholic Peer center, and said, “It has been really Novices are encouraged to take Ministers thanked the novices, not hard, especially when I was really the experiences, readings and questions only for visiting that day, but also tight with a guy. I wasn’t expecting they have to prayer. “Our hearts are for dedicating their lives to the to see death, to accept death. But broken encountering the painful church: “As novices, you’re taking this is the whole nine yards.” reality of injustice. It can lead to an important step, and it’s a brave Mike told the novices some despair if you don’t have prayer and step. You’re stepping out and saying, people question how his heart has hope,” Connor Smith, SJ, said. ‘I’m a Christian.’ Thank you.” not hardened to all the sadness his The second-year novices bring The Catholic Peer Ministers role entails. He said he actually their experience at Angola forward is one group whose call to serve is feels equipped with God-given gifts: with them, knowing they are supported. strong. Another vocation the Jesuit “It affects me every time. It doesn’t The novices find solace in processing novices witnessed is the role of men mean I don’t have a heart; it’s just their experiences and questions with who work in hospice. Seated in one what God has prepared me to do.” Jesuit community members. of the many Catholic chapels, deco- Jackson guided the novices As Jorge Roque, SJ, said, “The rated with inmate-made art, Mike around various sites in the prison: wider Jesuit community is full and Mark related their experiences St. Augustine Chapel, the Catholic of examples of how to live, how to ministering to dying men. mainstay in the heart of the prison; work in the social apostolate. We see Hospice volunteers accompany Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel, their dedication, passion and weak- dying men from the moment a whose walls are adorned with ness, too, and it motivates us.” man arrives on the ward, through inmate-painted murals; the execution

Fall 2018 | Jesuits 15 jesuit formation

In Gratitude for Their Service: Golden Jubilarians

Jesuit Jubilarians gather in New Orleans to celebrate.

he Jesuits USA TCentral and Southern Brother John Fava, SJ Province is blessed by the As chaplain for the St. Louis Metropolitan presence of men of faith, Police Department, Br. John Fava, SJ, has for many drawn by the spirit of St. years offered spiritual and personal guidance to Ignatius Loyola, to serve as police officers and their families. He is also assis- contemplatives in action. This tant to the minister at the Jesuit Hall Community year, three such men celebrate on the campus of Saint Louis University. 50 years as Companions in In addition to his hometown of St. Louis, Br. the Society of Jesus. We are Fava has served in Aurora, Colo., and Belize City, grateful to the Lord for calling Belize. He taught Spanish at Regis Jesuit High these men, and we thank School, Aurora, for 20 years. He has also taught them for their generous Spanish at St. Louis University High School and St. John’s College, Belize City. response to this call. Brother Fava entered the Jesuits in Florissant, Mo., in 1968 and pronounced This year also marks the first vows two years later. In December 1984, he entered the diaconate and milestone anniversaries of pronounced final vows on Oct. 31, 1980. 33 other members celebrating He also served as the minister and bookkeeper at Xavier Jesuit Center in 25, 50, 60, 70 or 75 years Denver and as a minister at White House Jesuit Retreat Center in St. Louis from from entrance or ordination. 2002 to 2016. You can read their reflections Brother Fava earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and a master’s in on our website. Spanish from Saint Louis University. He completed the Permanent Diaconate Please join us in praying Program at St. Thomas Seminary in Denver. A more complete profile is available for these good men. on page 29 of this magazine.

16 Jesuits | Fall 2018 jubilarians

Father Edwin Gros, SJ taught at the local Jesuit service at Jesuit High Father Edwin “Eddie” high school. He served School, Tampa, 1978-82. Gros, SJ, begins a brief as pastor and superior He directed the Jesuit sabbatical this year after at Sacred Heart Jesuit Volunteer Corps South five years as pastor at Holy Community in El Paso, in Houston, 1985-91. At Name of Jesus Jesuit Parish Texas, 2007-13. Loyola University New on the campus of Loyola Father Gros entered Orleans, he worked as University New Orleans. the Society of Jesus director of the Jesuit Born in New Orleans, in 1968 at St. Charles Center, 2002-06. He Fr. Gros has served a good College, in Grand Coteau, served as superior of the La. He pronounced first Jesuit Community at the vows two years later Father Simon J. Hendry, SJ University of Detroit and was ordained a During his 50 years in Mercy, 2010-16, in addition priest June 21, 1980, at the Society of Jesus, Fr. to teaching during that time. Jesuit High School, New Simon J. “Si” Hendry, SJ, Father Hendry earned Orleans. He says he is has worked in nearly every a Bachelor of Science in guided by the words kind of ministry, including chemistry from Spring Hill of Archbishop Oscar secondary education, higher College, Mobile, Ala. After Romero: “A priest must education, spiritual and studying physical chem- be the voice for the voice- social justice ministries and istry at Michigan State less in our world.” administration. He currently University, East Lansing, part of his priestly min- Father Gros received serves as the director of the Mich., and philosophy at istry in his hometown, his Bachelor of Arts in Catholic Studies Program Loyola University New including a brief term as French and philosophy and a teacher of religious Orleans, he earned a interim pastor at Holy from Loyola University studies and philosophy at Master of Divinity in theol- Name in 2006. He also New Orleans. He has the University of Detroit ogy from the Jesuit School served as a teacher and also earned two master’s Mercy in Detroit. of Theology, Chicago. chaplain at Jesuit High degrees: in theology A native of Manasquan, In 2002, he completed a School, 1981-85, and as an from the Jesuit School N.J., he grew up in Dunedin, doctorate in theology and associate campus minister of Theology, Chicago, Fla., and attended Jesuit sociology at the Graduate at Loyola University New and in Christian spiri- High School in Tampa, Theological Union in Orleans, 1992-95. He was tuality from Creighton Fla. He entered the former Berkeley, Calif. also the superior of the University, Omaha, Neb. New Orleans Province in He says the ministries Jesuit House of Studies Additionally, he studied 1968 at St. Charles College he has most enjoyed, such from 1991 to 1995. From at the Universidad in Grand Coteau, La., and as working with Jesuit 2002 to 2006, he was dean Iberoamericana, Mexico pronounced first vows two Volunteers and teaching of University Ministry at City, Mexico, 2007. years later. He was ordained students, are those that put Loyola University New a priest June 11, 1977. him in touch with people at Orleans. He taught and coached crucial times in their lives Earlier, he taught for at Strake Jesuit College as they struggle to make two years at Jesuit College Preparatory in Houston, sense out of new experi- Preparatory School in 1971-74 and again 1982-85, ences, new consciousness Dallas, 1974-76. He served when he also served as and new ideas. His major in Asunción, Paraguay, acting rector of the Jesuit interest, among many, from 1986 to 1991, where community. He also served is the integration of spiritu- he worked with young as a teacher, coach and ality and social justice. Jesuits in formation and director of community

Fall 2018 | Jesuits 17 Responding to the Call: Jesuits and Racial Justice

he history of Jesuits in the USA Central and area was repressed and targeted for violence. The East Southern (UCS) Province is intertwined with St. Louis massacres of May and July 1917, which included the history of America, including the challenges the murder of an estimated 100 innocent black people at Tof race relations. The province is currently researching the hands of white mobs and the pillaging and burning its history of participation in slavery and cannot deny of their homes, are evidence of the brutal violence against this shameful past. However, there are other Jesuits in African Americans during this time. the province’s history to which province members can A month after the massacres, a notable commitment look with pride, who worked to counteract slavery’s was made by two young St. Louis Jesuits who became enduring effects. influential forces for racial justice in the city and beyond. The province’s history with slavery creates a moral On Aug. 15, 1917, Fathers John and William Markoe and obligation to promote justice and minister to and two fellow Jesuits made the following resolution: advocate for African-American brothers and sisters “O, Jesus, we, the undersigned, resolve and determine, in Christ. Jesuits who worked for racial justice may in honor of Thy Sacred Heart, Thy Holy Mother, our be seen as models for the future. Guardian Angels and all our Patron Saints, especially Saint Ignatius and Saint Peter Claver, to give and dedicate our whole lives and all our energies, as far as Making a Stand in St. Louis we are able, and it is not contrary to a pure spirit of The end of legal slavery in the United States did not pure indifference and obedience, for the work of the salvation of the Negroes in the United States; and though bring about authentic freedom of black people, but rather, altogether unworthy, we trust in the Scared Hearts, the institution of slavery morphed into other practices, O Jesus and Mary, to obtain for us the priceless favor particularly in former slave states. In St. Louis, racism of doing so. And do thou, O St. Peter Claver, pray for us. was endemic for generations. By the early 20th Century, Amen. Also, daily to repeat this resolution, for the the growing African-American population in the St. Louis fulfillment of our expectations and desires.”

18 Jesuits | Fall 2018 justice Responding to the Call: Through the early part of The Markoes’ account of the highly publicized esuits and Racial Justice the 20th century, the Markoe integration of Saint Louis University (SLU) begins with brothers and other Jesuits a young black woman named Ethel Mattie Williams. J decried racism boldly and Mrs. Williams wanted her daughter Ethel, who had used their position as religious excelled in Catholic schools all her life, to study at a leaders to work to dismantle religious college in St. Louis, all of which were segregated racist structures, even in the at the time. The Williams women called upon Fr. John face of opposition. Markoe for help in 1943 and thus a “final and successful In a newspaper interview, effort to integrate the student body of St. Louis University Fr. John Markoe scoffed at was underway.” surveys about discrimination. Father John Markoe responded to the Williams’ In his opinion, “That’s like sur- Father William Markoe, SJ call for help by first consulting the president of the veying the Missouri River to University, Patrick Holloran, SJ, and several members of see if it’s wet.” He believed, “Racism is evil because the faculty. Although opposed to integration on the basis it’s a heresy. It denies the teachings of Christ and the that it could scare off white students and benefactors, Church; it’s against the natural law; it’s against decency. Fr. Holloran agreed to call a formal meeting of regents And it makes people suffer. It brings humiliation, and deans to discuss the matter. The meeting was twice poverty, misery. There’s no excuse for it. It’s so evil, delayed, and while Fr. Holloran sent a questionnaire to it’s rotten.” alumni, Fr. Markoe took action. Father Markoe’s bold proclamations and activism Father Markoe turned the questionnaire over to the discomfited many, and he was exiled from St. Louis to city editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The St. Louis Omaha, Neb., in 1946. He continued his work for racial Globe Democrat and the St. Louis Star also printed a justice in that city, making a mark on its civil rights version of the letter, and this helped to thrust the movement. university’s integration question into the consciousness Even in the late of the entire city. ’70s, Fr. John Markoe Father Markoe distributed a different letter to SLU’s maintained a sense president and influential members of the faculty: copies of urgency, still of “An Open Letter to Mother Edwarda,” a powerful outraged at ongoing epistle by Ted Le Berthon that appeared in the Pittsburgh injustices. He saw Courier on Feb. 5, 1944. The letter to Reverend Mother his role in the work Edwarda, the superior general of the Sisters of Loretto, for racial justice as tells the story of Mary Aloyse Foster who, because of her a true vocation race, was denied admission to Webster College, operated and an honorable by the Sisters of Loretto in the St. Louis suburb of mission, saying, Webster Groves, Mo. “Don’t thank me for Even with public pressure anything. Thank mounting, the meeting of God for whatever SLU faculty was inconclusive. I have done.” During this time, a copy of Father John Markoe, SJ “An Open Letter” came into the hands of another Jesuit, Claude Heithaus, SJ. “It struck Integrating Institutions him between the eyes with The possibility of interracial institutions remained such force that, although he highly contentious in the first half of the 20th century, had never given thought to but Catholic schools, particularly in St. Louis and the racial problem before, New Orleans, were fulcrum points for desegregation. he then and there decided to Father Claude Heithaus, SJ

Fall 2018 | Jesuits 19 make this problem the topic of a sermon he was sched- At Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala., Patrick uled to preach shortly after the no-decision faculty Donnelly, SJ, who served as president of the college from meeting took place.” 1946 to 1952, had urged the school board to accept black Father Heithaus delivered his sermon condemning students. He was succeeded by Andrew Smith, SJ, who racial discrimination and hatred during a Friday morning officially, but quietly, desegregated the school. Rev. Martin Mass at St. Francis Xavier College Church on Feb. 11, Luther King, Jr., in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” of 1944. Firmly rooting his sermon in Jesuit spirituality, April 16, 1963, praised “the Catholic leaders of this state Fr. Heithaus spoke of uniting the struggle of black men for integrating Spring Hill College several years ago.” and women to the struggle of Christ and invited students The decision to integrate southern Jesuit schools and to join him in hearing this call. the province itself came after about 50 members of the While Fr. Holloran attempted to discredit Fr. Heithaus former New Orleans Province met Aug. 28, 1952, to create in the press, the sermon elicited tremendous support a policy statement rejecting segregation, issued Sept. 9, 1954. from the students who heard it. Soon after, the St. Louis As Fr. Anderson, notes in Black, White, and Catholic: Globe Democrat reported that five black students had New Orleans Interracialism, 1947-1956, “this document registered at the university. Two male undergraduates would be used by the archbishop of New Orleans, Joseph enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences, and two Francis Rummel, to produce his own statement regarding men and one woman registered for graduate studies. segregation in 1956.” University records indicate Sylvester Smith and Fredda Once again, the actions of Jesuits working for racial Witherspoon, two prominent civil rights leaders, began justice within their provinces reverberated and affected classes in summer 1944. Smith, along with Everett change beyond the Society. Walker and Nathaniel Watlington, were among the first African-American students to graduate, in 1947. The Social Apostolate for Civil Rights While much of Jesuits’ work for racial justice within Integration in the South the province took the form of the integration of schools, In 1947, Joseph Henry Fichter, SJ, arrived at Loyola Jesuit social ministries also affected change. University New Orleans ready to challenge the racism of One early voice was Anthony Joseph Achée, SJ, who Catholic New Orleans. Though he underestimated the addressed racial discrimination through radio programs resistance he would face, he was responsible for several in Lafayette, La., and Mobile, Ala. On the feast of St. Peter interracial initiatives involving New Orleans colleges Claver in 1949, Fr. Achée broadcast, “We do not have slaves and universities. among us anymore, but we do have the descendants of In 1949, Harry Alexander, an alumnus of the nearby slaves, who in many places and in many respects are subject Xavier University – an historically black, non-Jesuit to contempt and ridicule and labor under great difficulties, Catholic college – made the first serious attempt at and are looked upon as second-class citizens, and are desegregating Loyola University New Orleans School of discriminated against for no other reason than their race.” Law. He was denied admission, but the struggle for Through teaching, advocacy and writing, Albert Foley, integration at the Jesuit university had begun. SJ, combatted institutional racism and sought to dismantle Though Loyola had admitted black students to select the culture of white supremacy in the Mobile community. programs in 1950, it required the backing of Jesuit Fr. He wrote two ordinances for Mobile in 1956 to ban police Louis J. Twomey for black students Norman Francis and membership in the Ku Klux Klan and “intimidation by Benjamin Johnson to enroll at Loyola University School exhibit,” referring to the practice of cross burning. It is of Law in the fall of 1952. Francis went on to serve 47 also said he offered class credit for recording the license years as the first black, lay president of Xavier University plate numbers of cars parked at Klan rallies. from 1968 to 2015, and received the Presidential Medal Retaliating against Fr. Foley’s efforts to obstruct them, of Freedom in 2006. in January 1957, the Klan attempted to gain access to According to R. Bentley Anderson, SJ, Fr. Fichter, Spring Hill’s campus and burn a cross. Students, up late more than any other Jesuit of the New Orleans Province, studying for finals, heard the commotion and chased the forced the Society of Jesus to examine its race policy. Klan members away. The white supremacists returned the

20 Jesuits | Fall 2018 next night, this time outside the campus gates. Fr. Foley, A few months after The Interracial Apostolate was away at the time of these events, continued teaching and published, Fr. Twomey was appointed director of the leading workshops on social justice at Spring Hill until Interracial Apostolate in the former New Orleans Province. his death in 1990. The Albert S. Foley, S.J., Community His appointment demonstrated a commitment to the Service Center keeps Foley’s legacy of action for justice continued work of racial justice within the New Orleans alive today. Province, especially in response to the violence during Father Louis Twomey those years. began publishing Christ’s Blueprint for the South, Looking Forward: a monthly mimeo- Jesuits Working for Racial Justice graph, in November Jesuits remain active in their commitment to responding 1948. Blueprint to the call for racial justice. Fred Kammer, SJ, director of was intended for a the Jesuit Social Research Institute (JSRI), still has his copy Jesuit audience only, of the original “Interracial Apostolate” letter in his office. because, as Twomey JSRI, a collaborative effort of the UCS Province and Loyola made clear, “in our University New Orleans, follows in Fr. Twomey’s footsteps ‘intra-family’ efforts we as an organization committed to applying Catholic social enjoy greater freedom Father Louis Twomey’s mimeograph teachings in working for racial and economic justice. Christ’s Blueprint for the South, to analyse [sic] our encouraged Jesuits to examine their Thomas Clark, SJ, pastor of Immaculate Conception Jesuit social deficiencies, own openness to racial equality. Church in Baton Rouge, La., said, “As a white pastor of an to criticize constructively historically black Catholic parish, I am led to enter into our failures adequately to an examen, that respond to the needs of our times.” distinctly Ignatian Father Twomey clearly recognized that the work review of one’s life for racial justice begins with an examination of self. and world under His humble, contemplative approach may have prompted the guidance of Jesuit Superior General Pedro Arrupe to ask him to draft the Holy Spirit, to a letter, The Interracial Apostolate: The Society of Jesus and seek clarity about Social Discrimination, published Nov. 1, 1967. This was a the consolations pivotal document, not only for the former New Orleans and desolations we This photo of Superior General Pedro Arrupe Province, but also encounter as we and Fr. Louis Twomey in Rome hangs in the for the Society serve the Lord and JSRI offices. Photo by Ray Ariatti. of Jesus in the his people.” For Fr. United States. Clark and many Jesuits, these encounters are opportunities to “enter into a deeper understanding of the mystery of evil and seek hope in the transforming power of the merciful gaze of God.” These Jesuit responses to the call for justice serve as reminders of the complex history of race within the USA Central and Southern Province. They are also a challenge to carry on the legacies of these men, who heard the call for racial justice and willingly and fervently aligned Father General Pedro Arrupe, SJ, calls for Fr. Twomey to come to the Jesuit Curia themselves with those in greatest need. in Rome “immediately.” Images used in this article are from the Jesuit Archives & Research Center. An extended version of this article, The Interracial Apostolate played a pivotal role relating the work of other men, can be found on our in the formation of many Jesuits. website, www.JesuitsCentralSouthern.org.

Fall 2018| Jesuits 21 milestones Jesuit Communities Celebrate Milestone Anniversaries The first Jesuits in North America came as missionaries, dedicated to the single-minded goal of bringing souls to God, often the first to bring Christianity to an area. Like their Jesuit forebears, they unavoidably became “founders,” building schools, parishes and retreat centers to serve the people of God. In so San Felipe doing, they also played founda- tional roles in the development of the cities of Albuquerque, 150 Years of Jesuit Presence in Albuquerque N.M., El Paso, Texas and he Society of Jesus has deep, historical roots in New Mexico and, Grand Coteau, La., among especially, in the city of Albuquerque. Jesuits have been present in others. Three institutions Tthe area since 1868, when Bishop Jean Baptiste Lamy assigned five Italian in the southern part of the Jesuits to a budding mission in New Mexico. Jesuits arrived in "Old Town" Albuquerque in 1868, where they estab- USA Central and Southern lished San Felipe Parish. Fifteen years later, the need arose for a church Province are celebrating in “New Town” Albuquerque. At the corner of Sixth St. and Copper Ave., milestone anniversaries, Immaculate Conception Parish emerged and today continues its now a testament to God’s enduring 135-year-old mission as a Jesuit parish community. The Immaculate Conception Parish community and the Jesuits of the kindness. The Jesuit presence USA Central and Southern Province this year celebrate 150 years of the filled a need then as it Jesuits in Albuquerque. continues to do today. Father Warren Broussard, SJ, pastor of Immaculate Conception, noted the diverse population from which the parish draws today: “We are a downtown parish with a very mixed community; people come from all over to attend Mass.” This wealth of diversity is at the heart of the parish’s mission and identity. In a formative gesture, the congregation recites the parish mission statement at every liturgy along with the Creed. “It keeps the mission

22 Jesuits | Fall 2018 Comunidades, a direct service to immigrants in need of assistance. This anniversary year, parishioners celebrate their diversity and the variety of ways the parish community lives its mission, ready to move boldly into the future. In an executive order, Timothy Keller, Mayor of Albuquerque, declared September 22, 2018, as “Jesuit Foundation Day,” as the parish continues “to enrich and expand their

Immaculate Conception pastoral assistant Fr. Robert Sullivan, SJ, visits with community members service to the downtown community” attending the parish’s weekly meal for the homeless. and “celebrate 150 years of serving the Albuquerque Community and seeking in people’s minds. Lots of parishes take a seat, are served a meal and God in all things.” have mission statements that go in a seconds, as much as they want,” With a Jubilee Celebration on book and never get looked at again,” Fr. Broussard said. “We send them Saturday, Sept. 22, Immaculate Fr. Broussard said. This recitation off with a lunch bag and try to Conception Parish commemorated reminds parishioners of the parish’s give them a little dignity in their 150 years of rich history. Looking identity as a diverse, Jesuit commu- experience of being served. It’s a to the future, Fr. Broussard said, nity, committed to justice issues. nice celebration.” “We’ve worked to make this a very Immaculate Conception Parish The parish congregation welcoming parish, and it’s my hope does more than recite its mission at embodies the mission through their that the community will continue each liturgy; it also lives it, inside work with interfaith justice groups, to welcome the stranger, and that and outside the church. rallies and discussions, ministry at a people feel accepted the first time “Our main focus is trying to juvenile detention center, outreach they come here.” be a very welcoming place,” said Fr. for single mothers, and Casa de las Broussard. “Sometimes you go into Catholic churches and you feel like a stranger. You might be familiar with the physical or sacramental elements, but you don’t feel any warmth from the people.” The parish community is deeply rooted in the city, and as the main parish within Albuquerque, Fr. Broussard noted, many of the city’s civic leaders are graduates of the adjoining St. Mary’s School. In addition to making the church a hospitable place, another active ministry is the weekly meal that volunteers prepare and serve every Sunday afternoon for the homeless population. This ministry serves between 80 and 150 people Immaculate Conception every week, restaurant-style. “They

Fall 2018 | Jesuits 23 125 Years of Jesuits in El Paso

he oldest parish in El Paso, Texas, Parroquia Sagrado Corazón (Sacred Among these are a center for at-risk Heart Parish) is situated just a few blocks from the U.S.-Mexico border. youth, employment office and a thrift TParishioners come from all over El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, to attend store. (At 99, Fr. Rahm continues his Mass, serve and continue their education. service, now in Brazil.) In the heart of El Paso’s Segundo Barrio neighborhood, the parish func- Jesuit Fr. Rick Thomas directed tions as a sanctuary where both Spanish- and English-speaking Catholics Our Lady’s Youth Center (now the practice their faith and open their arms to the broader city. Over the past Lord’s Ranch) from 1964 to 2006. year, Sacred Heart has celebrated 125 years as a Jesuit parish. Under his direction, the center expanded its social and health service The Jesuits have operated the At its Centro Pastoral, Sacred ministries beyond El Paso into Ciudad parish since its foundation in 1892. Heart provides an extensive Adult Juárez. (For more on Fr. Thomas The original building was a gift Education Program that each week and the ministry he built, visit www. to the Diocese of El Paso by Fr. includes 46 hours of educational thelordsranchcommunity.com/). Carlos Pinto, SJ, who is often called opportunities at various levels for Sacred Heart’s bell tower can the “Apostle of El Paso” and under more than 500 adults a year. Courses be seen by people crossing the Rio whose leadership the Jesuits built include basic education classes Grande on the foot bridge from 14 churches and seven schools for adults, General Equivalency Ciudad Juárez to El Paso, many of between 1892 and 1917. Diploma courses, English as a whom make the trip across the border The current structure, which Second Language support, computer every day. A beacon for community replaced the original church in 1929, literacy and citizenship training. members, Sacred Heart’s “ultimate holds 2,000 worshippers, and was In addition to the education goal is the formation and education of designed to accommodate refugees center of the parish, La Tilma the whole human person: body, mind who fled religious persecution in Mexican Restaurant and Catering is and spirit,” in true cura personalis of Mexico. This legacy lives on in an affordable, on-site catering ser- the migrant and the refugee. Sacred Heart’s mission today: “We vice and restaurant which serves the are a border community with roots parish community and beyond. It both in Mexico and in El Paso’s provides employment and training ‘Segundo Barrio.’ Our community is experience to those who work there, mostly made up of immigrants who as well as food service to more than have a host of needs and challenges 12,000 people every year. Located in which are directly related to their the parish center behind the church, being uprooted.” La Tilma is a staple at educational Sacred Heart is a haven for events, parish festivals, ventas (flea migrants and Catholics and markets) and health screenings. endeavors to counter the effects Sacred Heart’s social mission of poverty and violence on the is deeply rooted in its Jesuit iden- population. tity, one that has been cultivated Directly addressing the specific and expanded by its Jesuit pastors needs of a border community of throughout its history. Affectionately migrants, the parish is also home to known as “the bicycling priest,” several other initiatives that serve Harold Rahm, SJ, delivered breakfast the broader population. A food to the elderly every day on his bicy- bank adjoins the parish office, a cle. During his time at the parish multipurpose gym, and a former from 1952 to 1964, Fr. Rahm helped school which serves as a pastoral to establish a host of nonprofits and and social center. social services that continue today.

24 Jesuits | Fall 2018 Our Lady of the Oaks Jesuit Retreat House: 80 Years

s early as 1876, Jesuits were giving preached retreats to laymen and about 1,000 in 1947, more than Ahigh school students at St. Charles College in Grand Coteau, La. 1,300 in 1952, and more than 2,000 By 1910, The Laymen’s Retreat League of Louisiana, with the strong support in 2017. Indeed, the retreat move- of Archbishop James Blenk of New Orleans, were organizing retreats for ment is alive and well in southern around 70 men annually. However, as the number of young Jesuits Louisiana. studying at St. Charles College grew, there was no longer enough space Our Lady of the Oaks Retreat for the retreatants at this location. The solution, of course, was to establish House has expanded its offering of a house just for retreats. conference-style retreats to men, women and couples. These retreats, preached by both Jesuit priests and by thoroughly trained lay directors, are based on St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises. Daily Mass, the Sacrament of Reconciliation, the Way of the Cross and the Rosary are featured during the retreat, which frequently has a life-altering impact. For 80 years now, this oasis of prayer has been helping to form the spirituality of people in all walks of life — from Southwest Louisiana and beyond. Our Lady of the Oaks is a jewel in the crown of Grand Coteau, La. This small village, a home for Jesuits for nearly 200 Father Sam Hill Ray, SJ, a large grove of ancient oak trees, the years, is also the place where the dynamic and energetic organizer name was easy: Our Lady of the Oaks. Society of the Sacred Heart has of these retreats, teamed up with Built in Spanish mission style, educated young women for many the first bishop of the Diocese of the facility features an enclosed years. Grand Coteau is not only Lafayette, Bishop Jules Jeanmard, courtyard with the peaceful sounds beautiful, it is holy ground. who wanted a retreat house for the of a flowing fountain and lots of When the retreat house was faithful. And so, in 1937 – on the seating. Old oaks grace this central dedicated, in October of 1938, 100th anniversary of the Jesuits’ patio where squirrels and birds make Bishop Jeanmard expressed the arrival in Grand Coteau – Bishop themselves at home — to the delight hope that, “the laity will make the Jeanmard announced plans for the of those who visit. The beauty of retreat house a beehive of spiritual diocese to build a retreat house on God’s creation is on generous display. activity.” This hope is continuously the grounds of St. Charles College. Father Ray was the first director, being realized as so many find their The facility would be turned over to and Jesuits have served in that way to peace and spiritual renewal the Jesuits to be used in perpetuity position, lovingly caring for the house at Our Lady of the Oaks Jesuit for retreats for both laity and clergy. and its guests, ever since. Because Retreat House. Bishop Jeanmard was very Fr. Ray was fluent in French, besides - Fr. Louis J. McCabe, SJ devoted to the Blessed Mother. Anglos, he recruited many Cajun Aware of her recent apparitions at retreatants, whose first language was Fatima, he wanted the new retreat French. In its first full year of opera- house named for her. With the tion, 1939, the Oaks hosted some house located in the middle of a 600 retreatants; that number was

Fall 2018 | Jesuits 25 profile Joan Gaulene: Caretaker of the Mission

by John Fitzpatrick

conversation with Joan Gaulene is like suspending time. Once the Astories begin to flow, the hours pass in the blink of an eye. Ms. Gaulene has served as the curator of the former New Orleans Province Archives since 1997 – all as a volunteer. Her “tenure” there began as a detour, but became a ministry, a true labor of love. “The New Orleans Province Archives houses many treasures; one of the greatest is Joan,” said John Armstrong, SJ. “She is modest about her contribution, but she has played a crucial role to preserve and organize the materials that make up the history of the men and works of the province. “If it had not been for her tireless and meticulous work, it is not possible to calculate what might have been lost.” Ms. Gaulene first met the Jesuits between her junior and senior years of high school. She planned on attending college in Maryland; her parents had different ideas. They persuaded Ms. Gaulene to visit Loyola University New Orleans, where she met Fr. Bernard Tonnar, SJ. During their interview, Ms. Gaulene spoke of how she might pursue a degree in education, which was her mother’s choice for a young woman at the time. Father Tonnar said, “That is all well and good, but what is it that you really want to do?” Ms. Gaulene confided that her true desire was to become a journalist. Father Tonnar took the time to review the coursework she

26 Jesuits | Fall 2018 would need to do to complete a degree in One day while walking across journalism. As she recalls, “He could see that campus, she encountered I had a desire beyond education, and even former New Orleans though it wasn’t very common at the time for Provincial Thomas a woman to pursue a degree in that field, he Clancy. He inquired about encouraged me to follow my heart.” her future, and Ms. Gaulene told Ms. Gaulene entered Loyola University him of her plan to become a full-time New Orleans in 1953. volunteer at the new National WWII Some years later, she reconnected with Museum that was due to open in the Jesuits when she became director of 2000. Father Clancy asked her university relations at her alma mater. Her to consider working with the president was James C. Carter, SJ, who she New Orleans Province archival credits as the most influential of the three collection for a couple of months. Jesuit presidents she would work with during As she says, “He was very diplomatic “Working in her communications career. and asked me to simply lend a hand as they “Father Carter never lost sight of the would soon be receiving many boxes from the Archives core mission of Jesuit higher education and Grand Coteau, Louisiana. He said I was the of the former nurtured that dedication in his staff,” Ms. best person for the task because I ‘spoke New Orleans Gaulene said. “It’s easy and very satisfying Jesuit.’ I offered to help out for a while, to do a job when you understand and and here we are nearly 21 years later!” Province embrace the goals of a vision.” For her spirit of philanthropy and dedica- increased my Nine years later, her career took her to tion to the preservation of Jesuit history, personal Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles. There Ms. Gaulene was recognized by both the she worked with two Jesuit presidents and former New Orleans Province and Loyola spirituality. her public relations skills were stretched University. During her time at the Archives, Most people into crisis management after the on-court Ms. Gaulene served five provincials and view an archive death of a basketball player. She retired cared for countless books, papers and records. from Loyola Marymount on the Feast of She recently oversaw the transfer of the as a place for St. Ignatius in 1996. New Orleans archival collection to the new storage: boxes, However much she enjoyed her career, Jesuit Archives & Research Center in letters, papers Ms. Gaulene’s heart remained in her native St. Louis. She freely admits to some sense New Orleans. She was born and raised in of loss as the collection was cataloged, boxed and books. It is New Orleans’ Third Ward and attended up and moved, but considers their new so much more.” St. Joseph’s Parish School. She remembers location every archivist’s dream. –Joan Gaulene with great fondness that it could take an As she explains, “Working in the archives hour to get home from Mass. She explains, of the former New Orleans Province “In those days, Tulane Avenue was lined increased my personal spirituality. Most with homes, and as we walked by, Mom people view an archive as a place for storage: would stop and say hello to a dozen or so boxes, letters, papers and books. It is so friends and neighbors. It was a great place much more. The history of the Society of to grow up.” Jesus is in the archives. I think back on the Upon her return to New Orleans, Ms. wonderful Jesuits I have known and served. Gaulene was quickly recruited to teach And now, so many others that I never met part-time in Loyola’s Communications Dept. but know from the records of their inspiring John Fitzpatrick is the The classes were “History of Mass Media” lives in the Society. They are all very special, provincial assistant for and “Communications Writing.” She loved and I was privileged to be part of preserving advancement for this province. being in the classroom. their stories.”

Fall 2018 | Jesuits 27 man in formation

Chris Farrell, SJ: God’s Plan is So Much Better

t has to be said: Chris Farrell, SJ, from Farrell’s spirit of adventure as looks like a lumberjack. With well as his call to teach. For the past a full beard and shoulders that two summers, he has led pilgrimages Ican only come from hours in the to places of significance in Jesuit weight room, his physical presence is history. Last year, he and Fr. Joseph striking. But there is so much more Hill, SJ, led a group of 11 De Smet to this thoughtful, prayerful Jesuit and SLUH students on a Canadian who studied accounting but teaches canoe pilgrimage, following in the English, leads high school students footsteps of St. Jean de Brébeuf. This on pilgrimages in the wilderness and summer, he and Fr. Aaron Pidel, SJ, looks forward to where God will led 11 students on a backpacking bring him in years ahead. pilgrimage in the mountains of Beginning his senior year at Wyoming, where Fr. Peter De Smet, Washington and Lee University, SJ, served as a missionary. Farrell seemed to have successfully On both trips, Farrell wore the locked up the future he’d been long black cassock familiar to his working for: a great job in a great “On our Jesuit forebears. He could have fit city and the potential for starting a journey to god, right in with De Smet or Brébeuf family someday. Instead of feeling or any generation of Jesuits who satisfied and eager for his future, it's easy to wanted nothing more than to bring though, he wondered, “Is this all be distracted – souls to God. there is?” often by things “On our journey to God, it’s Farrell began considering reli- easy to be distracted – often by gious life. “I did exactly what you that are things that are beautiful and good. shouldn’t do,” he said ruefully. “I beautiful and In a Church that can seem irrelevant discerned on my own.” The turning good. to teens, who are all about adventure point came when he unknowingly and their physical bodies, how do followed one of St. Ignatius’s methods Chris Farrell, SJ we channel this physicality to a holy of discernment: he envisioned him- end? I want to give them an avenue self at the end of his life – one with a to recognize their energy can be a family and a career in accounting – “All these things I was passionate gift from God.” and asked himself if this was his best about seemed to be fulfilled in Jesuit Farrell is in his last year of possible life. “I knew I would wish I life,” he said. “God was calling me to Regency, teaching English and had returned more to God.” fatherhood in a different sense than theology to sophomores at De Smet. As he prayed and discerned, all I had anticipated. I believe good A powerlifter himself, he also helps the “puzzle pieces” of his life – his fathers teach their children what it students with their workouts. He enthusiasm for education, the joy he means to live a good life, and I came will apply for theology studies derived from his college fraternity, to understand that God was calling during the course of this year. “God his hope to be a father and his me to form young men to become knows where I’ll be after that,” he striving to do something noble with good, holy men.” says. “I like being surprised by God. his life – all began to fit together in Students at De Smet Jesuit High His plan is so much better than an unexpected way that made his School and St. Louis University my own.” path clear. High School (SLUH) are benefiting

28 Jesuits | Fall 2018 man at work

John Fava, SJ: Blessed to Serve

f they need a ride, I’m their police station, of course, with prayers “ guy,” Brother John Fava, SJ, and fist bumps before officer says of retired Jesuits who can deployment, but also at weddings requestI his help in getting to their and funerals. His ministry embodies destination from the Jesuit Hall the Ignatian impulse to be all things community at Saint Louis University. to all people, because “You never Living his ministry from the know when something is going to front seat of a car may seem very pop up; you have to be ready for different from the inside of a chapel, anything.” but Br. Fava’s ministries are just a He is grateful for the flexibility little out of the ordinary. Not only the brotherhood allows, which does he help transport older Jesuits, allows him to be available for a he has also spent decades riding conversation, a prayer or a ride, at along with police officers on their almost any time: “That’s why I do it.” calls in St. Louis and Denver. Brother Fava sought out the During his time at Regis Jesuit, Society of Jesus, compelled, initially, when students attended a two-week “Brothers can by the desire to teach and to be a mini-course at the Police Academy, do anything priest. During his regency, he was Br. Fava was invited to ride along called to become a brother. Through for the first time. He enjoyed it so and everything. his 20 years as a Spanish teacher at thoroughly, he kept volunteering to they're not Regis Jesuit High School in Denver, ride along for nine years, even before limited by being he felt a strong desire to meet the there was a chaplaincy position needs of friends and family, asking available. When a position opened, a brother.” him to celebrate weddings, funerals he applied and served 13 years as the Br. John Fava, SJ and baptisms. Answering God’s call, police chaplain in Denver. When he he was also ordained a permanent moved back to St. Louis, he imme- deacon. diately sought out a way to continue Brother Fava is joyfully aware this ministry. for department ceremonies. Among of the “limitless opportunities for As a volunteer police chaplain, these is the annual candlelight vigil brothers.” Recalling the Jesuit Br. Fava rides with officers as often and memorial for officers killed in brothers who were role models for as he can. That way, he knows the the line of duty in Missouri, at which him, and his own varied ministries, officers who serve the city, and the he has offered the invocation for Br. Fava said, “Brothers can do any- officers know him. His is truly a nearly a decade. thing and everything. They’re not ministry of presence. He has served Brother Fava tries to meet limited by being a brother.” To any as a St. Louis City Police Chaplain officers wherever they are in their young Jesuit discerning the brother- for 15 years; two years ago, he began spiritual life, but he never forces hood, he encouraged, “Go for it.” serving as chaplain for the Saint his religion or beliefs upon them. Living his vocation back in his Louis University Department of As a St. Louis native, he says, “I hometown, Br. Fava humbly affirms, Public Safety. never bring up anything except the “This is my way of serving God, the “I consider this a great, great Cardinals!” Church, the Society; this is what honor,” Br. Fava says of his chaplaincy, He carries out a ministry of God has called me to do, and I feel especially doing the benedictions presence at other times, too: at the blessed to serve.”

Fall 2018 | Jesuits 29 in memoriam

We give thanks for the Jesuits who have gone home to God.

Father John G. Valenta, SJ, Father Kenneth A. Father John G. “Jack” Valenta, Buddendorf, SJ SJ, was 95 years old, a Jesuit for Father Kenneth A. Buddendorf 68 years and a priest for 56 years was 88 years old, a Jesuit for 70 when he died July 10 in St. Louis. years and a priest for 57 years A gentle and kind man, he served when he died Aug. 3 in Grand most of his apostolic life at Coteau, La. Remembered by his Rockhurst University. He taught chemistry for more Jesuit brothers as joyful and enthusiastic, his ministries than 20 years, then, after training, he served as a included work in secondary and higher education and as counselor for eight years. the first full-time vocation director for the former New In 1996 he returned to his hometown of St. Louis Orleans Province. He was committed to the Christian to serve as chaplain at the Fusz Pavilion, the community Life Community. While director of Our Lady of the for senior Jesuits. He also served as substitute priest in Oaks Retreat House in Grand Coteau (1997-2008), parishes around the area. He continued in this work he helped develop a program to train directors of the until 2011, when he retired to an assignment of praying Spiritual Exercises, reflecting his desire to make them for the Church and Society. At the time of his death, he more widely available. He was a strong believer in the was the senior member of the Fusz Pavilion community. Gospel’s message of justice and compassion, and these were often the focus of his preaching. Above all, he was available for many works of the Society, embracing every Father Martin Whealen, SJ mission given him. Father Martin Whealen, SJ, spent more than three decades of his Jesuit life teaching in high schools; Father Nicholas Schiro, SJ 27 of those years were at Kapaun Father Nicholas Schiro High in Wichita, Kansas, beginning considered the religious education in 1965. His care for students and and spiritual formation of students sense of humor made him a valuable part of the faculty. as the special ministry to which he While carrying a full schedule of classes, he also served had been called. He will doubtless be as a nearly full-time assistant pastor at St. Thomas remembered with great affection by Aquinas Parish. two generations of students at Jesuit High School in New After his years in Wichita, he taught for two years at Orleans, where he served for 40 years. He also taught at St. Teresa’s High School in Decatur, Ill., and later, three Jesuit College Preparatory in Dallas for 14 years, 1964 more years at De Smet Jesuit High School in St. Louis. to 1978. His greatest satisfaction was the prayer class he He worked in pastoral ministry for 11 years in Denver, developed and taught. Those who took the class often at St. Thomas More Parish and at Xavier Jesuit Center. found it made an impression that stayed with them their He saw his pastoral ministry as a continuation of his entire lives. He was not only a skillful teacher and popular work as an educator. He moved to the Fusz Pavilion in with students, he also helped shape the theology cur- St. Louis in 2010. He was 87 years old, a Jesuit for 68 riculum for Jesuit high schools through his work with years and a priest for 56 years when he died July 19 the Jesuit Secondary Educational Association (JSEA). in St. Louis. He died Aug. 4 in Grand Coteau, La. He was 90 years old, a Jesuit for 73 years and a priest for 61 years.

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30 Jesuits | Fall 2018 What will your legacy be?

Antonio (Tony) and Cindy Prado-Gutiérrez are members of St. Ignatius Loyola Church in Denver. They have formed strong bonds with several Jesuits and support a number of Jesuit ministries, especially those focused on the migrant population. “Our parish is built around Ignatian Spirituality, including its focus on teaching the principles of welcome and Catholic social Ateaching so important to Tony and me,” Cindy said.

Tony sums it up this way, “As Cindy and I created our will, it was our firm intention that our monetary resources be available to invest in and support the mission of each ministry that is important to us.”

Cindy and Tony Prado-Gutiérrez support several Jesuit ministries. Their impact will continue beyond their lives through their will.

Father Tom Prag, SJ, and Br. Alois Dorsey are two of the Jesuits who inspired Tony and Cindy Prado-Gutiérrez. Father Prag was one of the early supporters of Escuela de Guadalupe in Denver.

You, too, can create a lasting legacy. “The greatest gift For more information please contact the Jesuits USA Central and Southern Province is a portion of thyself.” Advancement Office at (800) 325-9924 or email ~Ralph Waldo Emerson [email protected]. Jesuits Central and Southern Non Profit Org 4511 West Pine Boulevard U.S. Postage St. Louis, Missouri 63108-2191 Paid St. Louis, MO

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