Born into a devout Catholic family of four sons, Father Bernard (Bernie) Carroll, SJ knew he wanted to join the Jesuits as early as high school. “I admired and appreciated the Jesuits’ spirit and zeal,” says Fr. Carroll. “Priesthood was not the first motivating factor, but the Jesuits’ zest for life.” That enthusiasm for life …
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By Fr. Michael J. Rogers, S.J. | Photos by Michael Rosinski, S.J. May 25, 2020 – In two of the more memorable and elegantly simple ceremonies in recent history, Terrence Prendergast, SJ, Archbishop of Ottawa-Cornwall, ordained Christopher Kellerman, SJ (UCS), Trevor Rainwater, SJ (UMI), Oshish Tirkey, SJ (DAR), Jean Francky Guerrier, SJ (CAN), and Adam …
May 25, 2016 — For more than 25 years a lone figure has been quietly present on Canada’s Parliament Hill, in Ottawa. His raison d’être is not nuclear proliferation, tax reform, or climate change, but something he feels is much more pressing — the protection of unborn children and the protection of human life from conception to natural death. “Worldwide …
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“It would be stupid not to take advantage of the formation that a man brings to the Society,” said the Director of Vocations of Fr. Adam D. Hincks, “And I can tell you one thing: we are not stupid!”. This is one of the memories that this Jesuit recalls in an article about the beginnings of his religious vocation, part of the latest edition of the magazine Canadian Jesuits.