Peter Balleis, S.J., International Director of JRS, addresses Mission and Identity of JRS. Slides of a new work as Peter, Tony Calleja, S.J., and Sr. Irene Guia, ACI, establish an office/residence to serve the refugee camps in Goma, in the Congo.


Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo - 05/10/2008

Sr. Irene Guia, ACI, narrates this SoundSlide [3:24 min] show of Jesuit Refugee Service's work in the Kibiza Camp where over 18,000 refugees have lived since 1996.


Kibiza Refugee Camp, Kibuye, Rwanda - 05/02/2008

Many boys and girls at the very young ages of 11-13 were conscripted to be soldiers or sex-slaves of various guerrilla groups. They are now being rehabilitated in a camp run by the Jesuit Refugee Service in Uvira, a city in eastern Congo, across the border from Bujumbura the capital of Burundi.


UVIRA in the Congo - 05/01/2008

The choir sings as Jonathan Haschka, S.J., says mass and preaches in Swahili. Jonathan was instrumental in building this new church on the shores of Lake Victoria in Mwanza, Tanzania.


Mwanza, Tanzania - 04/30/2008

Frs. Tony Wach, S.J., and Jim Strzok, S.J., are building a new regional high school to be named: Oche Campion College. Both Tony and Jim graduated from the original Campion located in Praire du Chien, Wisconsin, which closed in the early seventies.


Gulu in northern Uganda - 04/29/2008

The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel featured my photographs at Marquette University's Haggerty Art Museum.

Check the opening paragraph: "No man can serve two masters, the Gospel of Matthew declares, but a Jesuit photographer is proving that some men can make two vocations work together nicely.

The work of photographer Don Doll is featured in "The Grandeur of God: Photographs by Don Doll, S.J." on exhibit January 30 through April 13 at Marquette University's Haggerty Museum of Art."

When I was in Rome last month to photograph the General Congregation 35, my friend, Tom Rochford, S.J., interviewed me for his Jesuit Voices site - MP3, 24 min, available on Magis.


MARQUETTE University's Haggery Art Museum - 02/24/2008

The newly elected Superior General of the Jesuits, Fr. Adolfo Nicolas, S.J., offer his inaugural mass of thanksgiving at the Gesu church in Rome.


ROME: Jesuit Gesu Church - 01/21/2008

"Murmuratio" as it is known in Latin is the process by which the GC35 delegations basically pray and fast as they discuss with one another possible candidates for the head of the Jesuit order.


Rome at the Jesuit Curia [headquarters] - 01/18/2008

Today the delegates of GC 35 accepted the resignation of Fr. Peter Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., as Superior General of the Society of Jesus.


- 01/14/2008

A walk, sometimes a run, through the streets of Rome. This is one of my favorite cities.



Rome — Bella Roma! - 01/12/2008

At the Jesuit Church of the Gesu in Rome, Cardinal Franc Rode celebrated the opening mass with over 300 Jesuits concelebrating.



ROME: Jesuit Gesu Church - 01/09/2008

On Saturday, Fr. Peter Hans Kovenbach, S.J., met with his counselors to make final preparations for GC 35.




Rome at the Jesuit Curia [headquarters] - 01/06/2008

Today I did photos in the renovated Aula where over 225 delegates from around the world will gather for almost two months to elect a new superior general, and produce documents on issues facing Jesuits and the church in the modern world.




Rome at the Jesuit Curia [headquarters] - 01/04/2008

Ernesto Travieso and I caught a train to Robert Cook's studio in the countryside about an hour north of Rome. We had met in 1977 in my first visit to Rome. Jenny, his daughter, cooked a wonderful, healthy pranzo, the noon meal. Bob showed his studio created in a former basement wine cellar.



North of Rome - 01/03/2008

On New Year's Day, I photographed the dedication of the new chapel in the Writer's house which features newly created murals by Fr. Marko Rupnik, S.J., who gave the homily [Listen in Italian (15 min)] explaining the symbolism he had used. Fr. Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Superior General of the Jesuits, said the mass and blessed the altar.



Rome - Peter Canisius Jesuit Community Chapel - 01/02/2008

My good friend Ernesto Travieso met me at Leonardo DaVinci airport, and brought my photographic gear and me to the Curia, i.e., the Jesuit Headquarters, in Rome.

On New Year's Eve, Ernesto and I went one city block over to St. Peter's to see the life sized Nativity scene. We then walked over to Piazza Navone, and the Pantheon. Later that evening from the fifth floor roof we joined the community to watch the fireworks as Romans around the city welcomed in the New Year!

On New Year's Day, I photographed the dedication of the new chapel in the Writer's house which features newly created murals by Fr. Marko Rupnik, S.J., who gave the homily [Listen in Italian (15 min)] explaining the symbolism he had used. Fr. Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Superior General of the Jesuits, said the mass and blessed the altar. See the slide show.

After hearing Pope Benedict’s noon address at St. Peter’s, I was invited by Fr. Kolvenbach and Jim Grummer, the American assistant to the general, to pranzo, the main noon meal,

In the afternoon, I joined two other Jesuits, Bill Oulvey and Tom Rochford, for walk along the Tiber river to Piazza Populo to see a variety of circus-like performers.

Later in the evening, Ernesto and I walked to the Jesuit Church, St. Ignatius, to listen to a choral concert by an American group. A full day indeed.



Rome on the roof of Canisius House - 01/02/2008

The Betty Strong Encounter Center opened the first week of December, 2007, with three exhibits, the Missouri River, the children of St. Augustine 2008 Calendar, and a Corn exhibit with photographs by Sioux Falls photographer Greg Latza.

The exhibits were designed by Magis Productions, ie, Carol McCabe and Don Doll, S.J.. The 60' Missouri River Wall from Yankton, SD, to Omaha, NE, was designed by Pat Osborne.

View a SoundSlide presentation of the gallery exhibits by clicking on 'more.'


Sioux City, Iowa - Exit 149 on I-29 - 12/13/2007