The Portal’s editors welcome collaborative partners to provide free online access to the some of the richest content associated with the history, spirituality, educational heritage, and pedagogical approach of the Society of Jesus. The Portal’s editors are very pleased to acknowledge the collaborative assistance they receive from the following institutions: Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (ARSI) […]
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The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History has relocated from the University of San Francisco to Boston College. The institute’s new website is: https://www.bc.edu/ricci The Ricci Institute has also issued a call for fellowships, including for its doctoral and Luce Postdoctoral programs. The doctoral program is open to all doctoral candidates who have completed all course work and
Exploring the Apostleship of Prayer Collection at the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (ARSI): Between Archival Analysis and Research Perspectives Sergio Palagiano Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.32 The Apostleship of Prayer Collection, kept by the ARSI, constitutes a highly valuable source for research on several different
FBK Press in Trento has published a new source, the annotated history of the the Jesuit college in Gorizia, Italy. The publication is the result of a collaboration between the Bruno Kessler Foundation and the Istituto di Storia Sociale e Religiosa di Gorizia. Historia Collegii Goritiensis: Gli Annali del collegio dei gesuiti di Gorizia
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Christopher Rivers, a professor of French at Mount Holyoke College in the United States, has launched a new website containing his translations of selected letters on slavery written by Jesuit missionaries. French Jesuit Letters on Slavery: ‘No Less an Object of Our Zeal’ is open-access resource available at https://jesuitlettersonslavery.wordpress.com. The collection presents Rivers’ translations of late-seventeenth
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The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies is pleased to announce the program for its 2019 International Symposium on Jesuit Studies. This event will be the institute’s fifth annual gathering of scholars from around the globe. It will be hosted at Boston College. The event has previously taken place in Boston, Nairobi, and Seville. This
On April 12, the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies presents a scholarly colloquium on the Chinese Rites Controversy. Hosted in collaboration with Burns Library of Boston College, the colloquium features presentations by Elisa Frei and Eugenio Menegon. Frei, a fellow at the Institute, and Menegon, a collaborative scholar at the Institute and an associate
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On May 22, 1965, the delegates at the 31st General Congregation of the Society of Jesus elected Pedro Arrupe as the Jesuits’ 28th superior general. Like the order’s first general, Arrupe was a native of the Basque region of Spain, born in Bilbao on November 14, 1907. He attended medical school in Madrid at the
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Pedro Arrupe delivered the following remarks to the 1971 Episcopal Synod with Pope Paul VI in attendance. The Jesuits’ superior general—speaking more in his role as president of the Union of Superiors General—uses the occasion to speak on the need for better collaboration between religious orders and diocesan priests. Acknowledging the fraught history of relations
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Speaking in his role as the head of the Union of Superiors General (rather than strictly as the Superior General of the Society of Jesus), Pedro Arrupe delivered the following remarks to the Episcopal Synod of 1969. The gathering took place in Rome, and Pope Paul VI was in attendance for this address. Arrupe declares
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