A 1992 interview with Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche.

Entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos talk about being “innovators” and “disrupters,” but really they are not—not in truly world-shaking ways. Imagine if they announced to the world: We are doubling the wages of our warehouse workers, increasing benefits. We are becoming, for God’s sake, a cooperative.

The lesson I take from Jesus’ washing of the feet is this: I do not decide which lives have value and dignity; God does.

From 1977: How Catholic journals covered the perilous journey of Jack and Jill up that treacherous hill in 1977.

The fee would be $27.20 per semester and the figure represents the 1838 sale of 272 enslaved individuals by the Maryland province of the Society of Jesus province for the benefit of Georgetown University.

Social entrepreneurs are ideally situated to help manifest the Jesuit mission to end poverty and protect the planet, writes the director of a training and mentorship center at Santa Clara University.