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In this address the annual meeting of the Union of Superiors General, held in Rome in May 1974, Pedro Arrupe raises what he calls a “relatively recent” question on the future of religious life led by members of the religious orders: “Is there a future for Religious Life?”  Answering that question, Arrupe argues, is impossible. […]

At a meeting of the major superiors in the Jesuits’ African Assistancy in March 1972, Pedro Arrupe delivered the following remarks on the missionary vocation within the Society of Jesus. The group had gathered in Cameroon, just a year after the establishment of the African Assistancy. A Jesuit missionary, Arrupe argues, had a two-fold purpose:

Pedro Arrupe, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, issued the following letter to every Jesuit in the world on April 14, 1968. Arrupe uses the letter to express concern about some of the problems as related to a Jesuit’s vow of poverty. He also references the Statutes on Poverty, released in September 1967.

At the Congregation of Procurators, held in 1978, Pedro Arrupe provided a comprehensive report, The State of the Society. The survey included a summary of the advances made by the apostolate of the Society of Jesus. As presented in a collection of Arrupe’s letters and addresses published by Jesuit Sources, the text below is the

In September 1980, Jesuit officials gathered at the Jesuit Curia in Rome to consider two elements within Jesuit secondary education: how to genuinely collaborate with the laity and how to apply Decree 4 from the 32nd General Congregation to their work. Pedro Arrupe offered the remarks to conclude the assembly. The Jesuits’ superior general used

In February 1980, a group of sixteen European Jesuits representing the “Mission Ouvière” (MO) met in Rome. MO members had devoted themselves to assisting workers. The meeting in Rome was intended to provide Pedro Arrupe with firsthand accounts of the conditions experienced by these workers. His remarks to the MO gathering, as appearing below, outline

Pedro Arrupe, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, delivered the following remarks at the 4th International Congress of Jesuit Ecumenists, which was held in Dublin in 1971. “Ecumenism is not a separate field of apostolate,” notes Arrupe, “but is a dimension of all the Church’s mission and therefore of all our apostolates.” In

United Nations Secretary-General U Thant welcomed Pedro Arrupe to his New York City office on May 4, 1971. Arrupe’s visit to the United Nations was the first made by the Jesuits’ superior general. The text of the men’s public exchange appears below. Arrupe speaks on behalf of his fellow Jesuits (“relatively few but active in

The extended selection below is one of four papers Pedro Arrupe wrote and asked be circulated among the members of the Society of Jesus following his meeting with North American provincials in the spring of 1971. Arrupe’s time in California was part of larger visit to the Jesuits’ American Assistancy. The letter by the Superior

In November 1967, every Jesuit in the United States received the following letter from Pedro Arrupe, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus. Arrupe issued this letter after conversations with Whitney Young (a leader in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States) and after the country experienced nearly 160 race riots in what