by Tucker Redding, SJ | Mar 13, 2023 | Papal News, Pope Francis ~ Approx. 7 mins
Where were you when Pope Francis was elected on March 13, 2013? I was in Kingston, Jamaica. It was my second year in the novitiate (the first stage of Jesuit formation) and I was spending three months working at a Jesuit school there. As we were all waiting for the...
by Sullivan McCormick, SJ | Apr 6, 2020 | In the News, Pope Francis ~ Approx. 4 mins
“I can’t but help think God is punishing us,” my 87-year old great aunt from Rhode Island recently said to me over the phone. I was listening to her thick New England accent as we discussed a world shaken and upended by the Coronavirus. She then reminded me that in 10...