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Slaveholding and Jesuit Recordkeeping in the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus, 1717–1867   Elsa B. Mendoza Georgetown University   Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.11     On November 5, 1755, Nanny, a woman enslaved by the Maryland Jesuits, gave birth to a boy named John at Bohemia plantation. The records show

A Spiritual Inheritance: Black Catholics in Southern Maryland   Laura E. Masur The Catholic University of America   Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.10     An old negro, the white-washer about St. Thomas’, told me a nice story of Father Hunter. One night, it was pitch dark, two young men came from Virginia

Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia has edited a new volume of essays in A Companion to the Early Modern Catholic Global Missions, now available through Brill.   The collection of fourteen essays, according to the publisher, “offers not only a global view of the organization, finances, personnel, and history of Catholic missions to the Americas, Africa, and Asia,

In the following homily from 1973, Pedro Arrupe asks that people embrace the most authentic expression of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by sharing effective love with one another. Such sharing would be a suitable response to the “sign of love” Jesus gave from the cross. For more sources from Arrupe, please visit The

On November 10, 1972, Father General Pedro Arrupe delivered the following address to a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Jesuit Secondary Education Association in the United States of America (JSEA) held at Fordham University in New York City. These remarks were one of two on the state and future of Jesuits and

The following is a partial transcript—as translated by Jerome Aixala and published by Jesuit Sources—of an interview Pedro Arrupe had an Italian television program “Encounter” in September 1975. Among the interviewer’s admittedly “provocative questions” to the Jesuits’ superior general are those on Arrupe’s own personal history (he provides a vivid account of the bombings and