Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, the superior general of the Society of Jesus, delivered the following remarks, over three days, to open the Jesuits’ 34th General Congregation. Kolvenbach reminds the delegates that their gathering had its “source and origins in the spiritual experience of Ignatius and his first companions,” that, in the words of Ignatius, theirs was “a […]
General Congregation 32 signified a major transition in how the Jesuits understood the connection between their mission and the service of faith and promotion of social justice. That connection was articulated in the congregation’s fourth decree, “Our Mission Today.” “In short,” as the decree’s introduction observes, “our mission today is to preach Jesus Christ and
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On March 1, Daniel Greenberg, lecturer in Asian Art and East Asian Studies at Smith College, visits the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies to present on “Landscapes of Power: Mongol Ritual, Jesuit Painting, and the Construction of Eighteenth-Century Chinese Empire.” Greenberg’s remarks at Boston College consider the meaning behind paintings completed by the Jesuit missionary
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