The Society of Jesus — commonly known as the Jesuits — in the United States and Canada will bring together its five current novitiates spread throughout the continent into two new novitiates starting in 2028, with one of the new novitiates to be located in Detroit.
Hours after a terrorist gunman attacked a synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Detroit Archbishop Edward J. Weisenburger called for prayers and said Catholics in southeast Michigan “stand in solidarity” with their Jewish brothers and sisters.
The building-size mural of St. Joseph, working as a carpenter with a market in the background, is the newest addition of a series of murals that mark Detroit’s Eastern Market, one of the largest farmers markets in the Midwest.