Comings and Goings

Fr. Jim Grummer, SJ, former Wisconsin Province provincial, was named to succeed Fr. Frank Case, SJ of the Oregon Province as one of four general assistants to Jesuit Fr. General Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, SJ in Rome. In Vatican City, Pope Benedict XVI named 15 prelates to become cardinals in March – among them was French Jesuit Albert Vanhoye, SJ, 82, former rector of the Pontifical Biblical Institute and secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission.

Fr. Jack Treloar, SJ will become Wisconsin Province Society of Jesus provincial assistant for higher education and bookkeeper for theological studies effective Sept. 1. He will also serve as the provincial’s delegate for conduct in ministry.

Kim Sang-yong Dominque, SJ, of the Korean Province, has joined the Arrupe House Jesuit Community in Milwaukee. He is studying English as a second language at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee before beginning theology studies at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley in August. Another international guest is Fr. Richard Jarain, SJ. He comes from the Kohima Region and will be living with the Creighton University Jesuit Community while mentoring with Fr. Larry Gillick, SJ in Ignatian Spirituality with the goal of becoming Kohima’s novice director. In August, Fr. Jarain will move to Loyola University-Chicago to begin work on a degree in pastoral counseling.

Beginning with the fall 2006 semester, Fr. Michael G. Lee, SJ (left ) joins the Theological Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles as an associate professor. Fr. Thomas A. Simonds, SJ, is finishing his tertianship assignment in Central America and, effective Aug.1, will teach in the Creighton University Department of Education.

Rick Ralphson, SJ (left ) and Ben Osborne, SJ have been approved for advancement to theological studies beginning this fall. They are currently completing their regency assignments at Marquette High School and Creighton Prep respectively.

Congratulations are in order to Wisconsin Province Jesuits who received minor orders and were installed as lectors in recent months: P.J. Shelton, SJ (top, left) and Nathan Wendt, SJ in February at Loyola-Chicago, Charlie Olsen, SJ (middle, left) in March at Fordham University in New York, and Jeremy Cramer, SJ in April in St. Louis. Also in February, Paddy Gilger, SJ (bottom, left) and Joe Hoover, SJ were installed as acolytes at a ceremony in Chicago.

Fr. Willard J. Dressel, SJ has been missioned to the St. Camillus Jesuit Community in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin to pray for the Church and Society. He will continue some additional duties at the Arrupe House Jesuit Community on a limited basis.

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