in Weston, formerly of St. Ignatius Loyola Parish, Chestnut Hill on September 18, 2017. Beloved son of the late Kenneth J. & Joanne M. (Murphy) Loftus. Brother of John F. Loftus and his wife Laura of Salem NH, Thomas J. Loftus and his wife Michele of Newton, Rev. Robert A. Loftus of Leicester, Michael J. Loftus and his wife Pamela of Clifton Park, NY, Timothy F. Loftus and his wife Karen of Scituate, Richard E. Loftus and his wife Mary of Holden, Anne M. Demerjian and her husband Paul of Cary, NC. Kathryn M. Slattery and her husband Robert of Old Orchard Beach, ME. and Joanna M. Loftus and her fiancé Joseph Griffin of Worcester. Father is also survived by 21 nieces and nephews, 5 great nieces and nephews as well as his many Jesuit Brothers. Reposing at Campion Center 319 Concord Rd. WESTON. Visiting hours Monday September 25 from 2-5 pm with a prayer service at 4:30 pm. Concelebrated Funeral Mass in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Campion Center on Tuesday September 26 at 10 am. Relatives and friends are invited. Interment will follow in the Jesuit Cemetery, Campion Center. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Jesuit Community, Campion Center 319 Concord Rd. Weston MA 02493 to support its ministry of care for elderly and infirm Jesuits. Ken Loftus was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on February 14th, 1951, and baptized in St. Ignatius Loyola Church, in Chestnut Hill, where he would spend the final years of his Jesuit ministry. He was the oldest of ten children of Kenneth and Joanne (Murphy) Loftus. He graduated from Wachusett Regional High School. He graduated from Worcester State College in 1978. He entered the novitiate of the New England Province, St. Andrew House, in Boston, in 1982, and took first vows in 1984. That same year, he went to Loyola University Chicago for a year of philosophy studies. From 1985 to 1987, he was an assistant editor on the staff of America magazine in New York City. He did theology studies in Berkeley, from 1987 to 1991, where he earned an M.Div. degree, and was ordained a priest at the College of the Holy Cross, in 1991. He spent a year directing retreats at Campion Renewal Center, in Weston, Massachusetts, and then, in 1992-1993, did the year-long program in spiritual direction at the Center for Religious Development, in Cambridge. Jesuits who knew him well said he was a gifted spiritual director. From 1993 to 1995, he was assistant director of novices and minister of the novitiate community at Arrupe House, in Jamaica Plain. In 1995, he moved to the University of Scranton, where he was a campus minister and student counselor, until 1999. In that year, he joined the staff of St. Ignatius Loyola Parish, in Chestnut Hill, where for three years he served both on the parish staff and as assistant director of novices. Thereafter, his work was entirely at St. Ignatius, where he was a much sought out spiritual director and pastoral counselor. In 2012, he moved to Campion Center, where he continued to direct retreats and offer spiritual direction as a member of the Renewal Center staff.