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School in Nairobi
March, 2006
St. Aloysius Gonzaga High School is located in the largest slum
in Africa and serves AIDS-affected teens. Fr. Terry Charlton, SJ,
co-founded the school which is currently looking to build a permanent
school building so that it may serve more students.
Fr.
Jim Collins, SJ on Chicago Tonight
November,
2005
Fr. Jim Collins was recently featured in a program called “The
Vow of Poverty” on Chicago Tonight, WTTW channel 11. The program
explored the vow of poverty through the lens of Collins’s
Jesuit vocation and his ministry
at St. Procopius parish.
Cristo
Rey Jesuit High School on CBS 60 Minutes
October,
2004
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School's remarkable development was profiled
in 60 Minutes story late in 2004. The story takes viewers into the
work world with the Corporate Internship Program. Alexandra Macias,
then a Cristo Rey senior, is featured prominently in the video.
Alex is now a first-year student at Xavier University in Cincinnati.
Chicago
Province 75th Anniversary
October, 2003
The Chicago Jesuits teamed with Jesuit-run Loyola Productions to
produce this 43-minute recap of the first 75 years of the Chicago
Province. The video traces its way from Marquette's arrival in Chicago
in 1673, to the creation of the Province, to the opening of Cristo
Rey Jesuit High School. All the while, the video provides fascinating
recollections into life as a Jesuit and how life as a Jesuit has
changed over the last 75 years.
Mission
of the Delhi Jesuits
2003
A production of the Delhi Jesuit Society.
A
Millennium Perspective
2001
Explaining the bond between the Jesuits overseas and the benefactors
back in the United States, one missionary perhaps puts it best,
when he says "We give by going; they go by giving." In
this spirit, "The Jesuits: A Millennium Perspective" pays
tribute to those who have gone, and to the benefactors who have
given so generously to the international missions of the Chicago
Province of the Society of Jesus.
The
Jesuits
1998
This program describes in touching detail the lives and ministries
of Fr. Don Nastold, SJ, a Chicago Province Jesuit, and Fr. Pat Casey,
SJ, a missionary to Peru. The video, which also includes a guest
appearance by Eppie Lederer (Ann Landers) gives viewers an opportunity
to take a trip through four decades of service to the Church and
the Society of Jesus.
NBC
Today Show Featuring Br. James E. Small, SJ
January 1997
NBC correspondent Mike Leonard visited Loyola Academy, where he
produced this touching profile of Br. James E. Small, SJ, Loyola's
resident carpenter and artist. In 1997, when this segment was produced,
Br. Small had raised somewhere between $300,000 and $400,000 through
the sale of his art. In 2005, the total raised for Loyola has climbed
to nearly $1,000,000.
A
Share In Creation
1997
This video features the work of Fr. Thomas Gafney, SJ, who founded
the St. Xavier's Social Service Center in Kathmandu, Nepal, to care
for the physically and mentally disabled as well as those suffering
from various addictions. In January, 1997, Fr. Gafney, who had repeatedly
challenged Kathamndu drug dealers was murdered in his bedroom.
Cristo
Rey Jesuit High School - CBS News
April, 1997
Near the end of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School's first year of operations,
CBS News profiled the school and its innovative work-study program
on the evening news. Gustavo Rodriguez, Cristo Rey's first student
and one of its first graduates, is featured throughout the segment.
Gustavo later graduated from Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH,
and now teaches and San Juan Diego Catholic High School, a Cristo
Rey model school in Austin, TX.
Cristo
Rey Jesuit High School - WTTW's Chicago Tonight
January 1996
Fr. John P. Foley, SJ, Cristo Rey's founding president, Sr. Judy
Murphy, founding principal, and G. Preston Kendall, SJ, founding
director of the Corporate Internship Program discuss Cristo Rey
with WTTW's Phil Ponce months before the school opened.
This
Extraordinary Life
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