The lieutenant governor of Washington announced on Thursday that he will not seek re-election and instead will enter the Society of Jesus this autumn. 

Bill McJannet found advocacy service, spiritual community, through Jesuit Volunteer EnCorps

VATICAN CITY - The quest to find life on other planets got a boost when astronomers confirmed the existence of at least seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a red dwarf star just 40 light years away.

WASHINGTON - Actor Andrew Garfield underwent the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, as part of his preparation for playing a Jesuit priest in Martin Scorsese's new film, "Silence."

WASHINGTON - More than 70 presidents at Catholic colleges and universities have signed a statement pledging their support for students attending their schools who are legally protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA.

SEATTLE – In 1891, Seattle was a distant logging town with a splendid harbor, a growing population and a humble parish school that one day would become Seattle University.

TACOMA - Heart surgery hasn’t stopped 80-year-old Jesuit Father Pete Henriot from raising money to pay for construction of a school in Malawi, a poor country in southern Africa.

I don't think I can call it "the mysterious case of the handprint in the night," but it did jolt me awake.