Jesuit Service & Justice

Nicaragua Summer 2012: Part I

With the exception of Mexico and the Bahamas, I have never genuinely been outside the privileged first world, and even then I was ensconced within the pampered and tourist-friendly resorts and restaurants that are so radically different from the...

First Junior Service Day

Last week juniors embarked on the first ever junior service day designed to give juniors a chance to experience Catholic social justice and the future senior service days. On junior service day, students dispersed all over Dallas, serving at various...

Guatemala Mission Trip

On March 21st, the Jesuit Medical Society sent off six students and teachers to poverty stricken Guatemala to bring much needed medical supplies to doctors there. Within a make shift pharmacy, science teachers Ms. Jan Jones, Mr. Max Von...

Jesuit Students Honored by WFAA’s Good Morning Texas

Jesuit’s profile of The Graduate at Graduation highlights six important traits that all students ought to espouse in their four years: a Jesuit grad should be open to growth, physically fit, intellectually competent, religious, loving, and committed to social...

Relating to a Refugee: The JRSAAOS Experience

Each day middle class Americans wake up in an air conditioned room, peel out of bed to eat a healthy breakfast, and get in their cars to go to work where they will be paid well above minimum wage....

Foreign Exchange Students at Jesuit

Just across the border in a city named Guadalajara lies a Jesuit school much like our own. Instituto de Ciencias, as it is called there, welcomes around 3000 students each day, ranging from preschool to high school. This spring,...

Not For Sale Donation Drive Recap

Today, thirty million people are enslaved throughout the world, forced into human sex trafficking and other types of forced slave labor. In comparison, many notable countries—including Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Venezuela, and Sudan—do not even have populations over thirty...

Medical Society Set for Mission to Guatemala

As I pondered the hallways of Jesuit College Prep last week, I could not help but be drawn to the bustling clamor of room B216.  I poked my head in to find the Jesuit Medical Mission participants packing up...

Literally Giving From the Heart: Jesuit’s Annual Blood Drive

Despite what the cinematic embarrassment Twilight may imply, there are practical uses for the drawing of blood. This coming Wednesday, Jesuit will be hosting its annual blood drive to collect life-giving blood for the American Red Cross. David Pace, an...