Religious Vocations Ministry
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In collaboration with the Jesuits USA East Vocations Office, the St. Ignatius Catholic Community actively promotes religious vocations in general and vocations to the Society of Jesus in particular. Prayers for vocations are a regular part of the Sunday liturgy. In June 2025, the community was rededicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus – a devotion with deep historical and spiritual significance for the Society of Jesus. Intercessions will seek to promote religious vocations. St Ignatius’ videographers are interviewing its priests, sisters, and deacons to learn how they discerned their call to religious life and the greatest gift of that life. St. Ignatius' Parish Religious Education Program (PREP) includes attention to religious vocations and hosts visits by Jesuit scholastics. On the first Sunday of each month, St. Ignatius also commissions a PREP family to pray for vocations through the "Pass the Vocations Chalice" effort. -
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The Jesuit Way: Learning to Lead in the Heart of the Bronx
An inside look at how Jesuits are formed at Fordham, where philosophy and community engagement are a way of life
From left: Jesuit scholastics Noah Smith, Luke Olsen, and Jackson Graham outside of Ciszek Hall. Photos by Taylor HFor nearly 500 years, the Jesuits have been forming Catholic priests and brothers for leadership in education and service. Since 2021, a new model for a key part of that process has taken shape in a modest brick building in the Bronx.
Ciszek Hall is home to 17 Jesuits in formation—seminarians and brothers who completed the two-year novitiate and are taking Fordham graduate courses in philosophy and other disciplines through the Jesuits’ First Studies program. Crucially, Ciszek’s doors aren’t located on campus but on Belmont Avenue.
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Meet Our 2026 Jesuits Ordained to the Priesthood
On June 13, 2026, four Jesuits were ordained to the priesthood at the Fordham University Church. Pictured above are Fathers John J. “Jake” Braithwaite, SJ; John P. Pignone, SJ; Bryan P. Galligan, SJ; and Grégoire B. Kaboré, SJ (from the West Africa Province).
From different experiences and backgrounds, they entered the Society of Jesus and completed a decade of formation that began as a discernment and a call of the Holy Spirit. Please keep them in your prayers as they now embark on their vocations to serve the Catholic Church and the people of God as Jesuit priests.
View Video: Ordination Mass 2026
Meet Our New Ordinands
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