Pope Francis' First 100 Days

Jesus' Seven Last Words - Part 7 - On Good Friday 2015, Fr. Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, delivered a homily at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC on Jesus’ Seven Last Words.

Jesus' Seven Last Words - Part 6 - On Good Friday 2015, Fr. Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, delivered a homily at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC on Jesus’ Seven Last Words.

Jesus' Seven Last Words - Part 5 - On Good Friday 2015, Fr. Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, delivered a homily at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC on Jesus’ Seven Last Words.

Jesus' Seven Last Words - Part 4 - On Good Friday 2015, Fr. Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, delivered a homily at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC on Jesus’ Seven Last Words.

Jesus' Seven Last Words - Part 3 - On Good Friday 2015, Fr. Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, delivered a homily at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC on Jesus’ Seven Last Words.

Jesus' Seven Last Words - Part 2 - On Good Friday 2015, Fr. Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, delivered a homily at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC on Jesus’ Seven Last Words.

Jesus' Seven Last Words - Part 1 - On Good Friday 2015, Fr. Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, delivered a homily at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC on Jesus’ Seven Last Words.

By Doris Yu Against the backdrop of MAGIS and World Youth Day 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, National Jesuit News sat down with Jesuit scholastics Eric Sundrup and Sam Sawyer, associate editors of The Jesuit Post, to talk about their experience interviewing Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Jesuit Father Adolfo Nicolás. Sundrup and Sawyer took the opportunity to interview Fr. Nicolás during his appearance at MAGIS at Colégio Antônio Vieira, the Jesuit high school in Salvador, Brazil. Speaking about his impressions of Fr. Nicolás, Sundrup said, “It’s very clear Fr. General speaks profoundly and in great depth. … When he talks to Pope Francis, he talks to him like he talks to any other Jesuit. I think he did the same thing with me and all of us that were present for the interview. He just talks to us like he would talk to any other Jesuit. ” Sawyer said, “I think what strikes me about him is, more than some particular program or strategy for the Society, what he has is a very clear sense of what we need to pay attention to, and he keeps calling us to pay attention to it.” Sawyer added about Fr. General’s dry sense of humor, “We laughed a lot when we got to talk to him off-camera and we got to interact with him that way.”

In his first 100 days on the job, Pope Francis has created many meaningful moments, according to Father Thomas H. Smolich, S.J., president of the Jesuit Conference.  In this podcast for National Jesuit News, Father Smolich talks about the importance of first impressions, Pope Francis’ Jesuit spirituality and a renewed sense of hopefulness.

After graduating from Creighton University in 2010, Molly Mullen joined Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Asia Pacific working with refugees and telling their stories. Two years later she is a communications consultant for JRS International and travels to different regions setting up communications programs that empower refugees and others to bring to light the issues and needs of displaced people. "Creighton and the Jesuits have been a part of my life forever," says Mullen, whose mother is a professor at Creighton (Dr. Barbara Harris) and whose father earned his BA and JD from Creighton "With a journalism background and Jesuit background, coming to JRS seemed like a no-brainer." Interviewed by Jeremy Langford, director of communications for the Chicago-Detroit Province Jesuits, in the JRS office in Rome on April 23, 2013. To learn more about Jesuit Refugee Service and find out how you can help, please visit www.jrs.net.