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The 34th General Congregation issued the following decree on the Jesuits’ work at universities, where “teaching, research, and scholarly publication” had continued “almost since the foundation of the Society.” In the text below, the delegates acknowledge that “Jesuit higher education has undergone very rapid development” in recent years—such as with the decreasing number of Jesuits […]

The delegates at the 34th General Congregation recognized the “distinctive importance” of the tradition within the Society of Jesus for “intellectual labor.” They note in the following decree that this contemporary work was of great importance since “present needs and challenges” require not only a Jesuit’s “ongoing acquisition of knowledge” but “the ongoing development of

At the close of the 20th century, the delegates gathered for the 34th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus asked their fellow Jesuits to note the technological changes underway and to “become critical consumers and, even more, critical practitioners of social communication.” In the decree below, the delegates argue that “the new communication environment

The delegates of the 34th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus argued that Catholic Church of the 21st century was to be “unmistakably…the ‘Church of the Laity.’” To praise, foster, and guide further collaboration with the laity, the Jesuits at the congregation issued the following the decree. It considers what the Society can offer

“A faith doing justice must necessarily lead to ecumenical and interreligious dialogue,” contends the following decree issued by the 34th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus. Because of this relationship, the congregation’s Jesuit delegates declare their reaffirmation of “the Society’s commitment to ecumenism in the most vigorous and explicit terms.” Since this decree does

The “long and permanent tradition of service proper to the Society” is reaffirmed by the following decree from the 34th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus. The decree notes that Jesuit service can be “the dangerous commitment of witness and struggle against the forces of injustice and persecution, both social and religious, a witness

The delegates of the 34th General Congregations, in the decree below, declare further vocations are necessary for the fulfillment of the mission of the Society of Jesus and urge “all our companions to work vigorously” for them. The responsibility for this work falls on “each Jesuit and each Jesuit community.” The decree observes that vocation

“In order to ‘feel’ [sentir] the anxieties and aspirations of the dispossessed in an Ignatian way,” the following decree from the 34th General Congregation declares that Jesuits “need direct personal experience” of poverty.  The decree explains poverty’s “apostolic and prophetic dimension” (it serving as the “unequivocal condition of our credibility”), offers guidelines to “renew our

The following decree from the 34th General Congregation is a lengthy discussion of chastity within the context of the Society of Jesus: the call to chastity, its apostolic character, the meaning of the vow of chastity, and some normative principles and guidelines for a chaste lifestyle). The delegates, in approving this decree, did so as

Ignatius accepted men at different grades when they were admitted into the Society of Jesus. Traditionally, the status of a “brother” was the most popular alternative to the priestly status. The delegates of the 34th General Congregation responded to “a substantial number of” requests from their Jesuit confreres and depicted the Jesuit brother’s role with