French Jesuit Jean-Claude Dietsch interviewed Pedro Arrupe in 1981, before Arrupe suffered a debilitating stroke, and their conversation was published the following year. The following is a selection of that interview as published by Jesuit Sources. Here Arrupe speaks to the beginnings of his devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He notes how, during […]
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Appearing below are the concluding paragraphs of the letter Pedro Arrupe sent to all the members of the Society of Jesus following his debilitating stroke in 1981. The letter emerged from an address he had given earlier that February at the end of a program hosted by the Ignatian Center of Spirituality at the Jesuit
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On May 4, Columbia University hosts “From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue: A Symposium on the History of Art, Science, and Religion in Jesuit China.” Daniel Greenberg and Mari Yoko Hara, both Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows at Columbia, have organized the event. Speakers at the symposium are: — Florence Hsia of University of Wisconsin,
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On April 24, the new Jesuit Archives and Research Center hosts a symposium on “Jesuits and the Sciences” as part of the bicentennial celebrations of St. Louis University. The symposium features a keynote address by P. David Brown, S.J., a Vatican Astronomer and the caretaker of the telescopes at the Vatican Observatory at Castel Gandolfo,
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Oxford University Press has published English translations of six sermons by Jesuit missionary António Vieira. Mónica Leal da Silva and Liam Brockey edited and translated António Vieira: Six Sermons. Vieira was born in Portugal in 1608 and worked in both Europe and Brazil as a Jesuit, long remembered for his sermons on “social and spiritual
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In 1540, Francis Xavier joined Simão Rodrigues in accepting the offer of the Portuguese king to serve as a missionary in Asia. Xavier took the place of Nicolás Alonso de Bobadilla, the man originally selected to travel with the Portuguese ambassador to Portugal. On March 15, before leaving Rome, Xavier wrote and signed the following
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The Jesuit Historiography Online features four new essays, all available in Open Access: — Moreno Bonda, “History-Writing and the Philosophy of Language: A Proposal for the Periodization of Early Modern Jesuit Historiography.” — Róisín Healy, “Jesuits in Germany—Post-Restoration.” — Teodora Shek Brnardić, “From Acceptance to Animosity: Trajectories of Croatian Jesuit Historiography.” — Chantal Verdeil, “The
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On April 12, the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies presents a scholarly colloquium on the Chinese Rites Controversy. Hosted in collaboration with Burns Library of Boston College, the colloquium features presentations by Elisa Frei and Eugenio Menegon. Frei, a fellow at the Institute, and Menegon, a collaborative scholar at the Institute and an associate
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Paschase Broët was born into a wealthy family in Northern France in roughly 1500. He traveled to Paris in 1532 to begin his university studies, where he met Ignatius of Loyola, Jean Codure, Pierre Favre, Claude Jay, Simão Rodrigues, and Francis Xavier. These seven men made the same vows together in a Montmartre church in
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In December 1551, Ignatius had his secretary Juan Alfonso de Polanco write to Antonio Araoz, the provincial of Spain, about the Society’s rapidly developing educational apostolate. What resulted was a concentrated epitome of the early Society’s thinking about this enterprise. Polanco swiftly covers issues of “method” (founding, administration, faculty, structure, content), and “advantages,” both for
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