Those Jesuits who remain, he said, now face the “fundamental concern” of expulsion or detention if relations between the Society of Jesus and the government of former Sandinista comandante President Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, grow any worse.

The latest moves by the Ortega regime came close to a direct expulsion of the Jesuits without actually stepping over that line, according to an expert on Latin American revolutions.

Nicaraguan officials ratcheted up a harassment campaign targeting Jesuits in Managua over the weekend.

A Nicaraguan judge described the Jesuit university as a “center of terrorism,” accusing its administrators and educators of “betraying the trust of the Nicaraguan people” and of “transgressing against the constitutional order.”

Parsing the numbers and understanding the implications can be challenging. Are we learning anything new?

Sadly, the church of El Salvador can offer any number of priests, men and women religious and lay people to choose from to hold up as modern exemplars of Christian self-sacrifice.

A Reflection for Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke

In an email exchange between a Texas state trooper and his supervisor, the trooper reported receiving orders in encounters with migrating people that he called “inhumane.”

What obligation does the United States still owe these Christians and other Iraqi religious minorities? What is it willing to do to assist and protect them?

A Reflection for Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke