The Second Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops took place in Rome in 1971, gathered to consider two topics: the ministerial priesthood and justice in the world. On the latter topic, a report on justice and peace was published in spring of 1972. Pedro Arrupe, in his positions as the Superior General of the […]
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The 1979 General Assembly of the National Federations of Christian Life Communities took place in outside of Rome, organized on the theme of “Towards a World Community at Service of One World.” Pedro Arrupe, as superior general of the Society of Jesus, addressed the group, largely of laymen, which took its inspiration from the Jesuits’
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Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus on July 21, 1773. In the preceding decades, the Jesuits had suffered expulsions from the Catholic empires of Portugal (1759), France (1764), and Spain (1767), where they had become handy scapegoats for kings or princes under civic pressure. In Portugal, for example, charges against the Society included
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Pierre-Antoine Fabre and Flavio Rurale have edited a new collection of essays on Claudio Acquaviva, the long-serving Superior General of the Society of Jesus. The Acquaviva Project: Claudio Acquaviva’s Generalate (1581—1615) and the Emergence of Modern Catholicism examines both the expansion of Jesuit works and “the consolidation of the Jesuit institute.” This volume addresses a significant
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The 132nd annual meeting of the American Historical Association (January 4–7 in Washington, D.C.) is centered on the themes of “Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in Global Perspective.” The conference features the following academic panels and presentations, among others, related to the field of Jesuit Studies: Thursday, January 4, 1:30PM Panel: “The Digital
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The annual Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) is held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from October 26 to October 29, 2017. The SCSC “promotes scholarship on the early modern era, broadly defined (ca. 1450 – ca. 1660).” The 2017 conference commemorates the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s “95 theses.” Included below are some of the panels and
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Academic formation of young Jesuits proved a popular topic in advance of the 31st General Congregation, as historian John Padberg notes that some 600 postulta (or petitions) were received from across the Society of Jesus (see Jesuit Life & Mission Today (2009), pg. 19–20). The delegates responded with the following decree, which begins with the statement
An two-day international symposium on famed Jesuit missionary to Tibet Ippolito Desideri (1648-1773) begins on October 13 in Pistoia, Desideri’s birthplace. The interdisciplinary conference is entitled, “The humane, religious, and scientific value of the Pistoian missionary’s great enterprise, three hundred years later.” It takes place at the Biblioteca San Giorgio. The program is
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Edited by Thomas Worcester, S.J., The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Jesuits is now available in print. The encyclopedia, according to the publisher, “opens up the complexities of Jesuit history and explores the current life and work of this Catholic religious order and its global vocation.” The single-volume work totals 930 pages. In all, 110 authors contributed
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The newest addition to the Jesuit Studies book series at Brill is Crossings and Dwellings: Restored Jesuits, Women Religious, American Experience, 1814-2014. The volume emerged from a 2014 conference at Loyola University Chicago, held on the 200th anniversary of Pope Pius VII’s restoration of the Society of Jesus. It is edited by Kyle B. Roberts
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