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Midwest Province Promotions
The Midwest Jesuits have promoted Quentin Maguire to vice president of advancement & communications and provincial assistant, replacing Kristine Mackey, who retired in December of 2023.
Maguire previously led the communications team at the Midwest Province. He will continue to serve as editor of Jesuits magazine, which was named the Religious Order Magazine of the Year in 2022 and 2023 by the Catholic Media Association.
In the same move, the province promoted Patrick Kennedy to senior advancement director responsible for major gifts and Lauren Gaffey to senior associate director of communications.
Since joining the Midwest Province in 2018, Kennedy has excelled at reaching new constituencies in the Chicago and Cincinnati markets. Gaffey will continue to manage the website for the national Jesuit Friends and Alumni Network (JFAN) organization (jfanusa.org), and jesuitprayer.org, a website and email program utilized by readers in more than 140 countries, offering scripture, prayer and reflection 365 days a year.
Historic St. Xavier Church Reopens in Cincinnati
After a six-month interior renovation and restoration, St. Xavier Church is open again in downtown Cincinnati. Built in 1861, the structure was rebuilt after being gutted by a fire in 1882. Recently, the parish community raised $4.5 million to paint and plaster, restore stained glass, and renovate the sacristy. In 1840, the Society of Jesus was invited to take over what would become Xavier University and St. Xavier High School, and the parish has been under the direction of the Jesuits since 1845.
New Jesuit Roles in South Dakota and Wisconsin
Two Jesuits have new roles in their South Dakota-based missions and a third takes on a new assignment in Milwaukee.
Fr. David Mastrangelo, SJ, has been selected as the next president of Mahpíya Lúta (Red Cloud Indian School) on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and will begin on April 1, 2024. Mahpíya Lúta board members made the selection after a thorough search process.
At Rosebud Indian Reservation, Fr. Edmund Yainao, SJ, is now serving as pastor of South Dakota’s St. Francis Mission. Father Yainao, who is from the Kohima region of India, previously served for seven years as an associate pastor at Pine Ridge.
Fr. John Thiede, SJ, is the new vice president for mission and ministry at Marquette University, where the mission’s theme for the year is En Todo Amar y Servir, or To Love and Serve in Everything, a phrase from the Fourth Week of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola
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Photo: This painting of Pope Francis was created by Cincinnati artist Holly Schapker (www.hollyschapker.com), a 1992 graduate of Xavier University.