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Honorable Mention
Color: Amateur
Beginnings: Birth and Conversion

The Loyola crest adorns the outer wall of the family castle in Spain. Recuperating from his battle wound there, Ignatius underwent conversion while reading a life of Christ and the lives of saints. Photographer Fr. Kenneth Overberg, SJ, is professor of theology at Xavier University in Cincinnati.

Honorable Mention
Black & White: Amateur

"Gesu Church is a landmark of my college, Marquette University. It was designed by Henry C. Koch and dedicated in 1894. In 1975 it was designated a Milwaukee landmark. Capturing its architectural beauty best exemplifies the Jesuit tradition at Marquette," says photographer Angie Wolfe, a senior at Marquette who's majoring in visual communications.

3d Place
Color: Professional

The Ignatian ideal of academic excellence is exemplified each year at the Parents' Weekend Honors Convocation at Loyola College in Baltimore. Student Jos‚ Vargas, class of '99, receives the congratulations of his parents, Elida and Danilo. Photographer Bob Stockfield has been doing freelance photography for Loyola College since 1986.

Honorable Mention
Black & White: Professional
Palm Sunday

Fr. Bob Voss, SJ, walks in a Palm Sunday procession in Victoria, Honduras. "Right before I took this picture he climbed up on a roof with a machete to harvest some palm branches for the procession," says photographer Fr. Mike Harter, SJ, one of the novice directors at the Jesuit novitiate in St. Paul. Fr. Harter worked for ten years in communications, on staff at the Review for Religious, and as an editor at America magazine.

Honorable Mention
Color: Professional

Frs. Karl Kiser, Brian Lehane, and Edward Siebert give their first blessing to Bp. George Murry, SJ, who ordained them in Cleveland in 1997. Photographer Michael Sarnacki has taken many pictures of Detroit Province Jesuits and their works. He goes to Sri Lanka this summer to continue work on a photo project on a Buddhist ceremony.

Honorable Mention
Black & White: Professional

Fr. Greg Bonfiglio, SJ, associate pastor at Dolores Mission in Los Angeles, translates a homily into Spanish for Sunday mass. Santa Clara University photographer Charles Barry took this picture for a story about Fr. Bonfiglio, a Santa Clara alumnus.

Honorable Mention
Color: Professional
Baby in a Bathtub

Fr. John Quinn, SJ, took this picture while working in hillside barrios surrounding Tijuana. "I helped build the one-room casita in which this baby lived with his mother and nine brothers and sisters," he said. Fr. Quinn, communications coordinator at Jesuit High School in Sacramento, graduated from the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara with an MS in professional photography.

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