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Acosta, Jose de
Alumni
A.M.D.G.
Amaladoss, Michael
Apostle
Aquaviva, Claudio
Arrupe, Pedro
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Addresses & Keynotes

Presidential Inaugural Addresses

The Spirit of Creighton: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Timothy R. Lannon, SJ
Creighton University, September 30, 2011
Presidential Inaugural Address
Scott R. Pilarz, SJ
Marquette University, September 23, 2011
Presidential Inaugural Address
David W. Burchum
Loyola Marymount University, March 8, 2011
Presidential Inaugural Address
Thayne McCulloh, Ph.D.
Gonzaga University, October 22, 2010
Presidential Inaugural Address
John Hurley, J.D.
Canisius College, October 16, 2010
A Noster Modus Procedendi
Fred P. Pestello, Ph.D.
Le Moyne College, April 24, 2009
Presidential Inaugural Address
Michael E. Engh, S.J.
Santa Clara University, April 24, 2009
Presidential Inaugural Address
Eugene Cornacchia, Ph.D.
St. Peter's College, October 20, 2007
In Ten Thousand Places: The Jesuit University and Humanism in a Pluralistic Age
Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J.
Inaugural Celebration Introduction at Loyola University New Orleans, October 15, 2004
Presidential Inaugural Address
Gerard Stockhausen, SJ
University of Detroit Mercy, October 1, 2004
Engaging the Tensions, Living the Questions
President John J. DeGioia
Inaugural Address, October 13, 2001
Scholars, Saints and Citizen-Servants
Michael Graham, S.J., President of Xavier University
Inaugural Address at Xavier University, September 8, 2001

Other Addresses and Keynotes

The Place of Sustainability and the Environment within Roman Catholic Thought
Sustainability Day 2011
Michael J. Graham, S.J., President.
Xavier University, November 7, 2011
Challenges to Jesuit Higher Education Today
Superior General Adolfo Nicolas, S.J.
Mexico City, April 23, 2010
Companions in Mission: Pluralism in Action
Superior General Adolfo Nicolas, S.J.
Loyola Marymount University, February 2, 2009
Remarks by Pope Benedict XVI to Catholic Educators at Catholic Universities
The Catholic University of America
April 17, 2008
Michael Graham, S.J., President of Xavier University
Keynote Address at the 18th annual Salute to Catholic School Alumni
Louisville KY, March 4, 2008
The Influence of the Spiritual Exercises on Six Dimensions of Jesuit Education
Michael Graham, S.J., President of Xavier University
Academic Day Address at Xavier University, October 2, 2006
The Catholic University of the 21st Century: Educating for Solidarity
Paul Locatelli, S.J., President of Santa Clara University
Keynote Address at Commitment to Justice Conference at John Carroll University, October 15, 2005
Justice in Higher Education
Dean Brackley, Ph.D. Universidad Centroamericana
Keynote Address at Commitment to Justice Conference at John Carroll University, October 14, 2005
Who Are Our Leaders?
Chris Lowney, author of Heroic Leadership
Chicago Province Luncheon at Xavier University, February 16, 2005
Cura apostolica
Howard Gray, S.J., John Carroll University
Keynote at the Jesuit Secondary Education Association, June 23, 2004
Ignatian Spirituality: What are We Talking about and Why?
Howard Gray, S.J. at John Carroll University
Staff Services Address, May 1, 2002
The Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice in American Jesuit Higher Education
Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., Superior General of the Society of Jesus
Keynote Address at Santa Clara University's Justice Conference, October 6, 2000
Lectures and Special Clips from Fordham University

Acosta, Jose de (1540-1600)

Spanish Jesuit; missioner to Latin America; cultural anthropologist

Jose de Acosta went to the University of Salamanca and entered the Jesuits at an early age. At 17, he was writing poetry and plays and teaching grammar and humanities. As a student at the University of Alcala, then the intellectual hub of Spain, he came into contact with some of the most brilliant minds in Europe. He was nominated to succeed the famous Cardinal Toledo in the chair of theology at the Gregorian University, the intellectual headquarters of the Jesuits.

Instead, he volunteered to work in the New World and was sent to colonial Peru, a far more difficult front for his intellectual and pastoral activities. This new world of native peoples and (supposedly Christian) conquistadores challenged him with a host of intellectual and moral problems, shaking his ideas at their very foundations and forcing him to new understandings.

Gradually, Acosta undertook the most systematic, enlightened and compassionate study of Latin America made during colonial times. After 14 years in Peru and several more in Mexico, he returned to Europe and published two great volumes, one on the culture and customs of the American natives and the other on how to present the gospel to them. With the perspective of four centuries, we can say that Jose de Acosta deserves to be called a founder of the discipline of cultural anthropology and one of the most important interpreters of the new world to the old.

In his later life back in Spain, he was drawn into contact and action with the small but powerful group of dissident Spanish Jesuits that sought to remove superior general Claudio Acquaviva from office.

(Taken from Traub, Xavier magazine [Winter 1991]. There is a biography of Acosta: Claudio Burgaleta, Jose de Acosta [1540-1600]: His Life and Thought [Loyola, 1999].)

Alumni

Julie Isphording The 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States have educated over one million living graduates to be people of competence and compassion. See some of the famous, influential, and noteworthy alumni from Xavier University and elsewhere.

IMAGE RIGHT: Julie Isphording, seen here, graduated from Xavier University in 1983 and went on to become a member of the first-ever women's U.S. Olympic Marathon team.

A.M.D.G.

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (Latin)

"For the greater glory of God." Motto of the Society of Jesus.

Amaladoss, Michael (1936- )

Indian Jesuit; theologian

Michael Amaladoss grew up in an Indian Christian family in South India and joined the Jesuits in 1953. In addition to the regular course of Jesuit formation and education, he studied South Indian classical music, art, and culture. He wrote a doctoral dissertation at the Institut Catholique in Paris on the variable and invariable elements in sacramental rites.

After returning to India, he founded an interreligious dialogue group with the creative British Benedictine Bede Griffiths, and he taught on the Jesuit theological faculty in Delhi with his former teacher, Jacques Dupuis. Next, he spent twelve years as a counselor to superior general Peter-Hans Kolvenbach with special responsibility for Jesuit missions. He dislikes being called a missiologist, however, and wants to be known as “an Indian theologian who is also interested in mission and dialogue, inculturation and liberation” (“My Pilgrimage in Mission,” International Bulletin of Mission Research, 31 [2007]).

^{See Hinsdale, “Jesuit Theological Discourse since Vatican II," Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits (2008).}

Apostle

Apostle/apostolate/apostolic

Apostle is the role given to the inner circle of 12 whom Jesus "sent out" (on mission) and to a few others like Saint Paul. Hence apostolate means a "mission endeavor or activity" and apostolic means "mission-like."

Aquaviva, Claudio (1543-1615)

Italian Jesuit; 5th superior general

Elected superior general at the age of 37, when he had been a Jesuit for only 14 years. Served in this office for 34 years, by far the longest term of any superior general. (A group of dissident Jesuits in Spain lobbied to remove him from office; some also favored secession of Spanish Jesuits from the order. Neither goal was realized.)

During his generalate, the Society grew from 5,000 to 13,000. He codified Jesuit educational practice with the definitive edition of the Ratio Studiorum [The Plan of Studies] (1599) and did the same for the collected practices and guidelines for giving the Exercises with the Official Directory of 1599.

He was concerned about questions of missiology and the adaptation of the gospel to non-European cultures (e.g., India, Japan, China). Within the order, he promoted the yearly making of some week-long version of the Spiritual Exercises (earlier it was assumed that making the full Exercises once was good for life).

Arrupe, Pedro (1907-1991)

Basque Jesuit; 28th superior general of the Jesuits (1965-81)

Pedro Arrupe was the central figure in the renewal of the Society after Vatican Council II, paying attention both to the spirit of Ignatius the founder and to the signs of our times. From the Basque country of northern Spain, he left medical school to join the Jesuits, was expelled from Spain in 1932 with all the other Jesuits, studied theology in Holland, and received further training in spirituality and psychology in the U.S. Arrupe spent 27 years in Japan (where among many other things he cared for victims of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima) until his election in 1965 as superior general. He is considered the founder of the modern, post-Vatican II Society of Jesus.