Welcoming refugees has long been a part of American ethos, argues Guest Columnist Kelly Ryan. In the Jesuit Refugee Service, we strive to be welcoming as part of our Catholic identity. Refugees also ...

The Jesuits arrived in the colonies in 1634, fleeing religious persecution in Europe, and by the early 1700s were known to rely on forced labor. All Catholic religious orders operating in the ...

The Jesuit missionaries, called the "soldiers of Christ", focused on converting pagans. (As portrayed by Paul Doucet in Canada: A People's History) The Recollet friars were the first to arrive.

For more than 450 years, education has been the focus of work for Jesuits. Indeed, after his conversion, Ignatius spent seven years studying at the University of Paris. His own educational vision was ...

At first, no single activity defined the new religious order. The early Jesuits preached in the streets, led men and women through the Spiritual Exercises, taught theology in universities, instructed ...

The college closed after the English conquest of Quebec in 1760. There was worldwide suppression of the Society of Jesus in the late 1700s, and the Jesuits were not to return to Canada for more than ...

The fur trade was based on the barter system and in the late 1700s a blanket was worth seven ... In 1634, Father Paul le Jeune, the superior of the Jesuits at Quebec observed, "I heard my (Indian ...