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Decree 19: “Parish Ministry,” General Congregation 34 (1995)

The following decree describes a Jesuit parish’s goals and characteristics (among them a parish “energized by Ignatian spirituality, especially through the Spiritual Exercises, and by individual and communal discernment”). The delegates of the 34th General Congregation also state that a parish provides “a favorable context to live with the poor and to be in solidarity […]

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Decree 27: “Pastoral Services, Residences, and Parishes,” General Congregation 31 (1966)

The delegates at the 31st General Congregation of the Society of Jesus chose to address three pastoral institutions—and how they might change, “under the present circumstances of the Church”—namely pastoral services, residences, and parishes. The following decree urges Jesuits to renew and to “energetically” promote some pastoral works and also to cease those that “cannot

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October 2025: Circa Missiones: Jesuit Unders tandings of the Mission Through Centuries (ISJS 2023) is now online

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The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies hosted its seventh annual International Symposium on Jesuit Studies in June 2023 at Brotéria in Lisbon. The theme for the event was “Circa Missiones: Jesuit Understandings of Mission through the Centuries.” The essays below are revisions of presentations, as invited by the Institute. Each essay was subjected to a single-blind

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Jesuit Domiciles

Jesuit Domiciles Map Navigate the interactive map Database Search the corrispondences Introduction In 1892, Alfred Hamy, S.J. (1838–1904), published Documents pour servir à l’histoire des domiciles de la Compagnie de Jésus dans le monde entier de 1540 à 1773 (Paris: Alphonse Picard, 1892). According to Hamy, this volume aimed to “spare those who study the

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April 2021: Frankfurt Lectures on Pathways through Early Modern Christianities

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The POLY research group — Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities (circa 700–1800 CE) — is hosting an online lecture series between April 2021 and June 2021.   The purpose of the the Frankfurt Lectures on Pathways through Early Modern Christianities is to facilitate the discussion of “the fascinating nature of early modern religious life,” with

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October 2020: Online Conference — Empires connectés. Les missionnaires comme agents impériaux

On October 15 and 16, the Université de Bretagne-Sud hosts a virtual conference examining missionaries of 16th to the 19th centuries. Hélène Vu Thanh, of the Université de Bretagne-Sud, is the conference organizer.   “Empires connectés. Les missionnaires comme agents impériaux (XVIe-XIXe siècles)” [Connecting Empires. Missionaries as Agents of Empire, 16th-19th c.] features fourteen presentations over the two-day

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April 2020: Fourth Season of the Jesuit Studies Café Series Closes with Jean-Pascal Gay

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The popular Jesuit Studies Café series closes its fourth season on April 24 with a presentation led by Jean-Pascal Gay of the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Gay speaks on “Why Theology Should Matter to Historians. Knowledge and Agency in the Early Modern Society. Around Théophile Raynaud (1583–1665).” Registration for the event is required. The deadline is

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January 2020: New History of Spiritual Direction in 17th-Century France

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Patrick Goujon, SJ, a theology professor at l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Centre Sèvres in Paris, has a written a new history of the changes to French Jesuits’ spiritual direction in the 17th century. Les politiques de l’âme: direction spirituelle et jésuites français à l’époque moderne has been published by Classiques Garnier as part the 57th

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November 2019: Conference on Early Modern Jesuit Vocations

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The Università degli Studi di Padova hosts a two-day conference with scholarly presentations considering vocations to the Society of Jesus in the early modern period.  The event is sponsored by the Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Giuridiche e Studi Internazionali.   The conference considers the theme of “vocation”–and in particular the “religious vocation” in its historical, religious,

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October 2019: Sangelli Institute Hosts International Workshop on Education and Culture

A three-day workshop begins October 2 at the Istituto Sangalli in Florence. The event features a number of scholars from around the world to present on the topic “Entangled Knowledges: Education and Culture in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (XIIIth-XIXth C).”   This is the fifth international workshop hosted by the Istituto Sangalli, allowing emerging scholars

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