In October, Father General Arturo Sosa SJ, visited various Jesuit locations in Germany. During the week of October 5-12, Fr. Sosa traveled to Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Munich, and St. Blasien in the Black Forest. He was a guest at the Jesuit institutions in these cities, including the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology and the Jesuit Future Workshop in Frankfurt, the international aid organization Jesuits Worldwide and the Ukama Center for Socio-Ecological Transformation in Nuremberg, the Munich School of Philosophy, and St. Blasien College with its boarding school in the Black Forest.

“This week’s encounters invite us to further develop our mission in light of our times and their needs,” said Father Thomas Hollweck SJ, Provincial of the Jesuits in Central Europe and host of Father Sosa. “At the same time, this visit makes us aware that we are part of a worldwide religious order, a community in which Jesuits and lay people are on a common mission in the name of Jesus.”

The topics of the meetings and discussions were based on the Universal Apostolic Preferences, the worldwide priorities of the Jesuits: They show paths to God, stand alongside the disadvantaged, accompany young people on their journey to a hopeful future, and advocate for the preservation of creation.