Sr. Teresa Rejadell was a Benedictine nun of the convent of Santa Clara in Barcelona. In this letter, Ignatius gives her detailed advice on the discernment of spirits, including the distinction between true and false humility (a favorite theme of Ignatius), evil under the appearance of good, and the proper treatment for scruples. His remarks […]
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The Irish Jesuit Archives has begun a new online catalogue, starting with the catalogue of St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Offaly. Catalogues for two other collections are also now available: one for the Waterford-born Jesuit and Irish language scholar Michael McGrath (1872-1946), and another on the Isle of Man Mission (1826-1837). Further collections will be added as time
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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
A call for papers is now available for the Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education Conference, to be held at Georgetown University on June 3-6, 2020. The event marks two decades, according to organizers, “since the first Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education Conference, held at Santa Clara University in 2000, when Fr. Peter-Hans
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Jesuit Sources announces a discounted bundle of 10 books on the governance of the Society of Jesus. The collection includes every decree from every General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, a copy of the Constitutions, and scholarly commentary and analysis on Jesuit governance. Supplies are limited. The 10 books are offered for only
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Yale University Press has published Reform Catholicism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits, 1554-1791 by Dale K. Van Kley, professor emeritus at the Ohio State University. Van Kley argues how “Reform Catholicism, not a secular Enlightenment, provided the justification for Catholic kings to suppress” the Society of Jesus, “a society instituted by the papacy.”
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In June 1965, the Church of the Gesù in Rome, the Jesuits’ mother church, celebrated the Feast of the Sacred Heart with the newly elected Superior General of the Society of Jesus presiding. The 31st General Congregation, which had elected Pedro Arrupe as general, was still in progress as was the Second Vatican Council. It
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Pedro Arrupe delivered the following homily at the Shrine of the Great Promise (Santuario de la Gran Promesa) in Valladolid, Spain, on May 8, 1970. The celebration took place on Arrupe’s first visit to Spain after his election as the Jesuits’ Superior General in 1965. The shrine marks the location of a former Jesuit theologate’s church
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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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Pedro Arrupe delivered the following homily, in Rome, in 1979. The remarks foreshadow much of what Pope John Paul II articulated the following year in his encyclical “Dives in misericorida,” which examined God’s mercy and man’s need for mercy. For Arrupe, the heart “is the abode of the Trinity,” and the Sacred Heart of Jesus
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