C.S. Collins, SJ	D.S. Hendrickson, SJ

Please join us in congratulating Christopher S. Collins, SJ (left) and Daniel S. Hendrickson, SJ who have been approved for ordination to the priesthood and will be ordained June 9, 2006 at the conclusion of the Wisconsin Province of the Society of Jesus annual Province Days celebration, which will be held next year in Omaha.

Until then, both men will be completing their theological studies – Collins at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass. and Hendrickson in California at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.

Fr. General Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, SJ has approved several recent appointments by Fr. Provincial G. Thomas Krettek, SJ. They include:

Fr. Gregory N. P. Konz, SJ as superior for the Arrupe House Jesuit Community in Milwaukee. Fr. Konz, assistant dean of the College of Business at Marquette University for the past two years, is presently in the Wisconsin Province Tertianship Program.

Fr. Edward G. Witt, SJ as new province consultor, replacing Fr. Chris Manahan, SJ who is doing his Tertianship in the Philippines. Fr. Gene Donahue, SJ will assume pastoral responsibilities on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota in White River and Mission. Fr. Rob Kroll, SJ, having recently completed his Tertianship in Australia, will join the pastoral staff on the Pine Ridge Reservation, working in the Kyle-Wanblee area.

In other activity, Fr. Tom Manahan, SJ has taken a position to do pastoral outreach to staff, students, parents, alumni, and friends of Marquette University High School. Fr. D. Edward Mathie, SJ assumed Fr. Manahan’s previous responsibilities at Marquette and is serving as interim president for the 2005-06 academic year while the high school conducts a search for a permanent president.

Fr. James P. Flaherty, SJ is the new rector of Marquette University Jesuit Community, and Fr. James J. Gladstone, SJ is the new superior of St. Camillus Jesuit Community.

Br. Jim Holub, SJ will be working with Fr. David Haschka, SJ in ongoing efforts to organize and open a Cristo Rey high school in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.

Andrew M. Jaspers, SJ has begun his first year of Regency this academic year at Creighton University where he is teaching philosophy and working in campus ministry. Fr. Stephen F. Mitten, SJ will also teach this year in Belize where he accepted an international assignment at St. John’s College in Belize City, Belize.

Fr. T. Michael McNulty, SJ is now associate director for peace and justice at the Conference of Major Superiors of Men.

Fr. John M. Ginsterblum, SJ and Fr. Charles C. Murphy, SJ have been assigned to the St. Camillus Jesuit Community in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, where they are missioned to pray for the Church and the Society.

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