Fr. Chris Manahan, SJ entered the Society of Jesus in 1993 at the age of 37 after a 15-year career as a newspaper reporter and editor in Minnesota and Iowa. After his ordination in 2003 he served two years as a parish priest on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota; spent a year working with Jesuits in the Philippines and northeast India; served eight years on the staff of the Jesuit Novitiate where men discern whether to profess vows; and, for seven years was director of the Jesuit Retreat House on Lake Winnebago at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Fr. Manahan currently assists the provincial in caring for Midwest Jesuits awaiting final vows and for the province’s senior Jesuits who are 70 and older. He is a member of the Taylor Street Jesuit Community in Chicago.