This document, a chapter from the Part IX of the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus, articulates the desired qualities in the Jesuits’ superior general. Though the Constitutions were not approved until the first General Congregation of 1558, the first Jesuits elected Ignatius as their superior general in April 1541. Ignatius collaborated with Juan Alfonso […]
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The Society of Jesus—much like “all well-organized communities or congregations”—appoints a person “whose proper duty,” according to the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus, “is to attend to the universal good.” For the Jesuits in particular, the superior general’s “duty is the good government, preservation, and growth of the whole body of the Society.” (Rather
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Jesuit Sources formally launches the first volume published since its move from St. Louis to Boston College. Jesuit Pedagogy, 1540-1616: A Reader is edited by Cristiano Casalini and Claude Pavur, SJ. As the publisher summarizes: “Once they had begun educating youth, the Jesuits never stopped thinking about pedagogy. The Ratio studiorum (1599), widely celebrated for
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On April 13, the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies welcomes Eugenio Menegon, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute, and Jorge Flores, professor of Early Modern Global History at the European University Institute in Florence, to Boston College as they present papers on the “‘Global Courts’ of Early Modern India and China: Jesuit Accounts of Imperial
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Eugenio Menegon, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, delivers a talk at Boston College entitled “The Man and His Image: Art & Propaganda at the Court of the Qianlong Emperor of China and the Jesuits’ Role.” The talk, co-sponsored by the Department for Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures and the
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