Anniversary of St Ignatiusâ encounter with a cannonball
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20 May marks the five hundredth anniversary of a chance event with large consequences. In 1620 a stray cannonball ricocheting off a castle wall in a minor skirmish broke the leg of a knight defending the castle. The cannonball, a symbol of the knightâs culture, also represented in its errant path the fracture of the ties that bound him to that culture. It had large consequences for him and for the world. The long convalescence of Ignatius Loyola after the siege of Pamplona changed the direction of his life and shaped the church and world that we inherited.
De Spaanse anti-protestant Ignatius van Loyola (1491-1556) is nu ook onder protestanten geliefd
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Bishop invites Catholics to explore life, legacy of St Ignatius
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Activists fear jailed Indian Jesuit faces Covid death sentence
May 19, 2021 rome bureau chief
Jesuit Father Stan Swamy, pictured in a screenshot from a video, has been incarcerated in an Indian jail since his Oct. 9, 2020. Father Swamy marked his 100 days in prison with a letter highlighting the cases of poor people languishing in jail who begin their trials without even knowing their criminal charges. (Credit: CNS screenshot/YouTube.)
ROME – Father Stan Swamy, a 84-year-old Jesuit priest with advanced Parkinson’s disease who spent his life serving indigenous peoples in India and who was imprisoned last October after being accused of “terrorism”, reportedly is suffering from COVID-19 symptoms in a country that counts some 4,000-daily death due to the