Pedro de Ribadeneira and the Use of Sources: Critical History and Hagiography in the Early Society of Jesus Robert E. Scully, S.J. Le Moyne College Originally published: April 20, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.02 Where can and should one draw the line between fact and fiction, norms and ideals, history and hagiography? The […]
Knowledge and Personal Expectancies: Jesuit Intellectual Culture and Missionary Experience in the Early Jesuit Province of New Spain Hugo Zayas-González Central Michigan University Originally published: April 20, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.28 On October 28, 1575, Superior General Everard Mercurian (in office 1573–80) explained to Antonio Cordeses, provincial of Aragon, that his decision
The Materiality of Catholic Resistance in Sources for the English Jesuit Mission Aislinn Muller Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.21 The Society of Jesus played a critical role in preserving the material culture of English Catholicism, which came under assault following the Reformation of the
The Voices of Memoria: Diaria, Historiae, and Annuaria as Records of Experience in the Pre-suppression Society Paul Shore University of Regina Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.01 One or more underlying values or principles may lie behind many of the documents produced by the pre-suppression Society, the identification of which can aid us in understanding
The Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu has published a new book by Frank Sobiech — Jesuit Prison Ministry in the Witch Trials of the Holy Roman Empire: Friedrich Spee SJ and his Cautio Criminalis (1631). Sobiech’s book is the first study of prison ministry of Jesuits during the witch trials of the early seventeen century. According to
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From October 18–20, the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco and Mary’s Shrine in Ontario co-sponsored an international symposium entitled “Life and Death in the Missions of New France and East Asia: Narratives of Faith and Martyrdom.” The symposium began with remarks by Thomas Worcester, S.J., the president
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“The Apostleship of Prayer can and ought to be a great force for transforming the world,” declares Pedro Arrupe in the following address. His remarks closed the 1978 International Congress of National Secretaries of the Apostoleship of Prayer in Rome. It was the organization’s first meeting since new statutes were approved after the Second Vatican
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The following are notes, rather incomplete yet intimate ones, written by Pedro Arrupe before his stroke in August 1981. The Jesuits’ Superior General describes celebrating Mass, alone, in his private chapel reserved at the Curia in Rome. He provides glimpses of his passionate intimacy with the Eucharist and of his burdens of his office: “the
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French Jesuit Jean-Claude Dietsch interviewed Pedro Arrupe in 1981, before Arrupe suffered a debilitating stroke, and their conversation was published the following year. The following is a selection of that interview as published by Jesuit Sources. Here Arrupe speaks to the beginnings of his devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He notes how, during
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In the 1740s, Feodosii Smorzhevskii, a Russian hieromonk in Beijing, reported to his superiors on the work of Jesuit missionaries in China. Both the Russian Orthodox and Catholic missionaries attempted to navigate the labyrinthine world of the Qing imperial court. In the selection below, the Russian hieromonk reveals—in vivid detail—the precarious position of Christians in
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