Robert J. Sawyer

Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer

Monday Spotlight: Jesuit Brothers

by Rob - March 6th, 2006.
Filed under: Uncategorized.

I used to make my living writing nonfiction. Twenty-one years ago this month, an article I wrote appeared in, of all things, Compass: The Jesuit Journal. I’d been hired by the Jesuits of Upper Canada to write an article about what it’s like to be a Jesuit Brother; back then, I didn’t know any, although today Vatican astronomer Brother Guy Consolmagno is a friend of mine. To do the aritcle, I spent a “Day with the Jesuit Brothers” — two decades on, it’s still a day I fondly remember.

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