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Jesuit Sources has published a new English translation of The Duties of a Teacher, a handbook issued by the National Education Commission of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1787. Duties was written by Grzegorz Piramowicz, a former Jesuit teacher who sought to guide how grammar school teachers could serve the larger society. According to the publisher, Piramowicz “lays out a […]

Brill’s Jesuit Studies book series has published its tenth volume, The Archaeology of the Jesuit Missions in Ethiopia (1557–1632). The text is published by four authors: Víctor M. Fernández  of Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Jorge de Torres of the British Museum, Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner of the University of Gondär, Ethiopia, and Carlos Cañete of the Centro de Ciencias

Barton Geger, SJ, and the Seminar of Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits host the second annual Faber Symposium from June 16-18 at Our Lady of Angels Mission in Chicago, Illinois.   In keeping with the efforts of George Ganss, John Sheets, Martin Palmer, and David Fleming to heed the Second Vatican Council’s call to

The Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (IHSI) and Brill have collaborated to publish The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1598–1606: “Lest Our Lamp be Entirely Extinguished” by Thomas McCoog. As the publishers note, the volume begins at a time when “Jesuit missions in Ireland, Scotland, and England were either suspended, undermanned, or under

The International Symposium on Jesuit Studies opens today at Boston College with a keynote address by Festo Mkenda, SJ, of Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa in Nairobi.   The event consists of five panels examining the theme of “Encounters Between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas.”   In addition to Mkenda, keynote addresses

In the current issue of the Journal of Jesuit Studies, historian Judith Rock examines the motivation, widespread production, and professionalism of ballets at Jesuit colleges in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. “The Jesuit college ballets,” she writes, “are a rich nexus of … art, theology, philosophy, and culture.”   Rock’s essay and the entire contents