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In 1972, Pedro Arrupe delivered the following address in Rome. The Jesuits’ superior general points to the way in which knowledge was fragmenting into ever more disciplines. Arrupe pushed scholars within the Society of Jesus to fight this fragmentation by pursuing “interdisciplinary research” accompanied by theological reflection, which the latter “direct object is the study […]

Journalist Renzo Giacomelli of the Vatican Radio Station conducted an interview with Pedro Arrupe in December 1976. A transcript of that exchange appears below. Among the topics considered is how men and women from religious orders can evangelize and develop man, especially when, as Giacomelli notes, “the crisis of religious institutes is widespread and profound.”