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Pedro Arrupe’s first official visit to England and Scotland as the Jesuits’ superior general took place in January 1970. This was not the first visit to England by a leader of the Society of Jesus, as Arrupe notes in the homily below. Arrupe delivered these remarks at the Farm Street Church in London, a Jesuit […]

In 1872, Superior General of the Society of Jesus Pieter Jan Beckx stood in the Church of the Gesù in Rome and consecrated the Jesuits’ order to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. One hundred years later, Pedro Arrupe renewed the Act of Consecration, explaining the reasons for his decision in the following letter that he

The Jesuit International Congress of 1974 was held in Loyola, Spain, the birthplace of the order’s founder, Ignatius of Loyola. The gathering had a theme of “The Spiritual Exercises and the Constitutions as Instruments for Renewal in the Society.” Pedro Arrupe delivered remarks to the congress, a portion of which appears below (as it did

Rome hosted a meeting of some 70 rectors and presidents of Jesuit universities and colleges in August 1975. In addition to receiving remarks from Pope Paul VI and Cardinal Gabriel-Marie Garrone (the prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education), the delegates heard two homilies by Pedro Arrupe. The Jesuit superior general delivered the following homily

Six months after the conclusion of the 32nd General Congregation of the Society of Jesus in 1975, Pedro Arrupe hosted representatives from provinces and other Jesuit organizations to discuss the issue of collaboration. The meeting was particularly sparked by the congregation’s Decree 4, “Our Mission Today.” Below appears the text of Arrupe’s remarks to the

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

Pedro Arrupe delivered the following message to the 1976 General Assembly of the Executive Council of World Federation to celebrate the service provided by the Christian Life Community (CLC). The CLC is an international group of lay Christians that receives inspiration from Jesuit spirituality and receives guidance from Jesuits themselves. Arrupe focuses his remarks on

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.”

The 32nd General Congregation of the Society of Jesus ended on March 7, 1975, having met for 96 days and approved 16 decrees. Arguably the most important of these decrees was Decree 4: “Our Mission Today,” one of four decrees focused on the “Society’s Response to the Challenges of Our Age.” The Jesuits’ Superior General,

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.