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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

The following document, based on points issued to various provincials’ conferences, was issued to all members of the Society of Jesus by their superior general in 1971. Pedro Arrupe addresses the kind of spiritual life that he believes is necessary to support Jesuits’ works. For more sources from Arrupe, please visit The Arrupe Collection.    

Less than three months after writing a letter to the entire Society of Jesus to explain his actions, Superior General Pedro Arrupe delivered the following homily at a Mass to renew the Jesuits’ devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1972. Appearing after selections of Arrupe’s address below is the text of the Act

In 1972, Pedro Arrupe delivered the following address in Rome. The Jesuits’ superior general points to the way in which knowledge was fragmenting into ever more disciplines. Arrupe pushed scholars within the Society of Jesus to fight this fragmentation by pursuing “interdisciplinary research” accompanied by theological reflection, which the latter “direct object is the study

Pedro Arrupe wrote the following letter in response to a request by Vincent D’Souza, the provincial of the Jesuits’ Goa-Poona vice province. D’Souza had asked the Superior General of the Society of Jesus his thoughts on poverty and on the importance that the practice of poverty should have on Jesuits. Arrupe observes that “poverty is

An assembly of alumni of Jesuit schools, attracting from 400 delegates in all, met in Padua, Italy, in August 1977. The official congress had the theme: “Is the Church still the Bearer of Men’s Hopes?” Addressing those delegates and that theme, Superior General of the Society of Jesus Pedro Arrupe delivered the following remarks. Perhaps

Journalist Renzo Giacomelli of the Vatican Radio Station conducted an interview with Pedro Arrupe in December 1976. A transcript of that exchange appears below. Among the topics considered is how men and women from religious orders can evangelize and develop man, especially when, as Giacomelli notes, “the crisis of religious institutes is widespread and profound.”

On January 15, 1977, Pedro Arrupe delivered the following homily at the Mass marking his 50th anniversary as a member of the Society of Jesus. Such occasion, the Jesuits’ superior general notes, often marks the “dialectic between a man’s smallness and limitations and the greatness of the Creator.” Yet, each individual has his own story.

To mark his 70th birthday in 1977, Superior General Pedro Arrupe conducted a brief interview with the Vatican Radio Station (operated since its establishment in 1931 by the Jesuits). In the text appearing below, Arrupe explains why he remains an “incorrigible optimist,” what changes might be necessary given the decrease of Jesuit vocation, and what