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Pedro Arrupe issued the following position paper at a meeting of the Union of Religious Superiors General in Rome in February 1974. Arrupe believes that it is “clear that religious life must be an evangelizing force,” one that adapts in order to help the Catholic Church adapt as well. The “effectiveness” of an evangelizer, then,

On April 10, 1972, Pedro Arrupe delivered the following remarks in Rome to a meeting of the Vatican officials, superiors, priests, and professors (these periodic meetings were organized under the Approdo Romano). To these leading figures in the Catholic Church, Arrupe speaks about the religious superior in the modern context. He cites the reasons why

The Major Superiors Conference of India was held at Bombay, India, in April 1971. Pedro Arrupe participated in that meeting. The father general also delivered an address to a large gathering of Jesuits—including those who were attending the conference, members of Bombay Province, and others who traveled to hear the speech—at the St. Stanislaus’ School

Pedro Arrupe, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, spoke before the Episcopal Synod held in Vatican City in 1974. In the following remarks, Arrupe discusses public opinion (“one of the great forces in today’s world”). He stresses how the Catholic Church can use “the mass-media of social communication” as a means to “fulfill

At the International Colloquium of Jesuit Alumni held in Padua in August 1977, Pedro Arrupe delivered the following address. The frank remarks begin with the admission of the Superior General of the Society of Jesus that, while he feels “very much whatever touches the alumni, both as individuals and as a body,” there have been

“This task of direct evangelization by the preaching of Jesus Christ remains essential today and must be continued,” stated Decree 4 from the 32nd General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, “since never before have there been so many people who have never, heard the Word of Christ the Savior.” Four years after that gathering

All Jesuits, according to the following decree from the 34th General Congregation, “are servants of Christ’s mission,” and all Jesuits have experienced a “time of testing” and a “time of grace” since the general congregations of the 1960s and 1970s.  The delegates at the 34th General Congregation note here now the previous decades have made

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