RIPFr George Croft SJ24 June 1925 – 5 November 2023 George Sebastian Croft was born in Hornsey London, the second of two sons who both became Jesuits. He was educated at Jesuit St Ignatius College and entered the Society in 1942 at St Beuno’s, North Wales, where the novitiate was located for much of the …
Last week, when speaking to his weekly audience, Pope Francis urged the world to take “only one side” in the Israeli-Palestinian war – the one “of peace”. He added, “War does not solve any problem, it only sows death and destruction, increases hatred, multiplies revenge. War erases the future”. He called for a day of …
RIPFr Oskar Wermter SJ26 January 1942 – 12 October 2023 He was in his 81st year of life, 62nd year in the Society, 52nd year of Priesthood and he celebrated 44 years of Final Vows before he died, in the early hours of Thursday, 12th October, 2023 Oskar Walter E Wermter was born in East …
RIPFr Brian Enright SJ2 July 1937 – 3 October 2023 He was in his 86th year of life, 68th year in the Society, 55th year of Priesthood and he celebrated his Golden Anniversary of his Final Vows (50 years) eight months before he died, in the early hours on the Feast of St Francis Borgia. …
RIPFr Klaus Cieszyński, SJ, RIP30 July 1938 – 18 September 2023 Klaus Peter Cieszyński was born in Lucienhof, Pomerania (Germany) of August Cieszyński and Gertrud Holder-Kotzung on 30 July 1938. After schooling he entered the Polish novitiate in Kalisz in 1957 as a brother. His first assignment was to be part of the Warsaw Province …
RIPSch. Belmiro Molande SJ8 December 1994 – 23 August 2023 The Society of Jesus mourns the loss of scholastic Belmiro Molande SJ. Belmiro Carlos Francisco Molande, was born on December 8, 1994 in Matewere, Angonia District, Tete Province, Mozambique. He had a twin brother, Rachid, and three other siblings, Cátia, Cremildo de Sousa and Carina …
RIPFr Daniel Kamuzyu SJ20 August 1982 – 23 August 2023 Daniel had a full and extraordinary life even before entering the Society of Jesus. Throughout his life he had three loves: the Church, priesthood and religious life. These were loves nurtured from his early years at his secondary school, Mukasa Minor Seminary which, at that …
RIPBr Paul Desmarais SJ9 March 1945 – 16 August 2023 The Society of Jesus mourns the loss of Br Paul Desmarais SJ. Paul Desmarais was born on 9 March 1945 in Windsor, Canada of a farming family. He went to Tilbury District High School form 1958-1963. Immediately afterwards, in 1964, he entered the novitiate in …
RIPBr Gabriel McKinney SJ27 February 1934 – 1 August 2023 The Society of Jesus mourns the loss of Br Gabriel McKinney SJ. Gabriel McKinney was born on 27 February 1934 in Derry, Northern Ireland, of Thomas and Mary (née Crossan) McKinney. He went to primary school at St Eugenes and then finished off at St …
By Fr Christopher Chatteris SJ Today is International Water Day. Fr Rampeoane Hlobo, the Provincial’s Delegate for the Social Apostolate and Environmental Justice, has sent this article “Water is Life, but Water is Scarce”, written by Fr. Christopher Chatteris, S.J., so that we might remember this day with greater conscientiousness. Johannesburg is now a city experiencing water …
