,

Jesuit University Students Respond to Recent Racial Violence

Students at Jesuit universities engage in public demonstration, prayer, and reflection in light of recent racial violence.
Our Lady Mother of Ferguson and All Those Killed by Gun Violence
,

Black Lives Matter: Weeping with Mary at the foot of the Cross

The conditions of the possibility of transformative solidarity concern the level of presence with and for ourselves, Jesus, and the most despised of God’s children in our time and place. Mary, along with Diamond Reynolds and too many others, still weeps in our midst.
,

A Letter to My White Ignatian Family

Editor's Note: Today's reflection is written by Kristen Trudo, a 15-16 Jesuit Volunteer, and was inspired by her recent experiences working in St. Louis, Missouri. Read her previous reflection about her JV experience here. Dear You, Writing about race scares me. I’m intimidated by the misconception that my words represent the experience of an entire race of people. I know they don’t. But I also know that some people will assume that they do. You are white. So perhaps this does not resonate with you. I believe that one must write anyways, though. And my objective is simple: I once heard that “justice is the minimum of love.” So I suppose I am challenging you, as a person of the Ignatian family, to not speak of love until you can first work for justice.