This year, 25 March marks 385 years since Fr Andrew White and his companions landed on St Clement’s Island on the Potomac River, Maryland. This date marks the birth of the colony of the Province of Maryland and the anniversary is celebrated annually state-wide as Maryland Day.
Jesuit novice Paolo Beltrame gave up his career as an astrophysicist to join the Jesuits. He tells his vocation story and reflects on faith and science.
With the Jubilee year for the 450th anniversary of the birth of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga coming to a close, we decided to highlight the work done by Fr Cyril Martindale SJ, the man in charge of organising the English Province’s celebrations for the bicentenary of the canonisation of the young Saint in 1926.
As we approach the Feast of St John Ogilvie SJ, Kensy Joseph SJ considers the extreme nature of his witness to the faith in seventeeenth century Scotland.