Jesuit is a Catholic High School and has a large group of Catholic students. However, there are also some students who go to the Jesuit that are of different religious backgrounds. Since we have this religious diversity, it's important to recognize it. After all, non-Catholic students at Jesuit are still part of its Catholic community, even though they may...
Thursday, November 19 and Saturday, November 21. Remember those dates, for what occurred on those days has only been documented in Dallas Jesuit history on three separate occasions.
Two weeks ago, a total of thirteen Dallas Jesuit students basked in the halls of Southern Methodist University’s (SMU) Meadows Museum, indulging and learning about multiple pieces from the museum’s art gallery....
At 9:01 a.m. on November 10th, two junior theology classes jumped on a bus and drove through the morning mist to an unforgettable experience. Their destination was an Eastern Byzantine Church in Irving, where the classes intended to examine the differences between the Roman Rite of Catholicism and the Byzantine Rite. In order to supplement their study of the...
Every school year, sophomore teachers in the theology department plan a field trip strictly for the sophomores to the Holocaust Museum of Dallas, located on 211 Record Street in downtown Dallas. The day includes several presentations created by various teachers to reflect on the horrors of the Holocaust. “The trip allows students to reflect upon real world events and...
How does an I-day address social issues within our school and abroad?
I-days have been much improved since their debut last year, and on October 18th and November 15th, the Jesuit community took a day off to participate in the first two Ignatian Days (I-Day) of the year organized by the Jesuit faculty. This year, however, brought notable changes to the...
On November 8, 2011, Jesuit’s Star Wars and Theology Department put on an excellent presentation displaying the correlation between the Star Wars film franchise and Catholic theology. The presentations took place in Hughes Hall during the 4th, 5th, and 6th period lunches in front of a packed crowd of students and faculty.
A theology teacher showed clips from some of...
The United States leads the world in new incarcerations. The United States confines over 2 million individuals, the most in the world, and an increase of 500% since the 1980s (¦). 97% of federal-level convictions result from plea bargains. 94% of state criminal convictions result from plea bargains (¨). The recidivism rate in the United States is among the...
In the past few weeks, the Jesuit Roundup has been working on several articles dedicated to the multitude of new teachers who have arrived at Jesuit Dallas. Filled with a passion to inspire a desire to learn in their students, these new teachers are working across all academic departments.
At Jesuit, the theology department is tasked with helping students to...
