Academic formation of young Jesuits proved a popular topic in advance of the 31st General Congregation, as historian John Padberg notes that some 600 postulta (or petitions) were received from across the Society of Jesus (see Jesuit Life & Mission Today (2009), pg. 19–20). The delegates responded with the following decree, which begins with the statement […]
An two-day international symposium on famed Jesuit missionary to Tibet Ippolito Desideri (1648-1773) begins on October 13 in Pistoia, Desideri’s birthplace. The interdisciplinary conference is entitled, “The humane, religious, and scientific value of the Pistoian missionary’s great enterprise, three hundred years later.” It takes place at the Biblioteca San Giorgio. The program is
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Edited by Thomas Worcester, S.J., The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Jesuits is now available in print. The encyclopedia, according to the publisher, “opens up the complexities of Jesuit history and explores the current life and work of this Catholic religious order and its global vocation.” The single-volume work totals 930 pages. In all, 110 authors contributed
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The newest addition to the Jesuit Studies book series at Brill is Crossings and Dwellings: Restored Jesuits, Women Religious, American Experience, 1814-2014. The volume emerged from a 2014 conference at Loyola University Chicago, held on the 200th anniversary of Pope Pius VII’s restoration of the Society of Jesus. It is edited by Kyle B. Roberts
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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
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Loyola University Chicago hosted a Jesuit Studies Roundtable in advance of the annual Renaissance Society of America conference. Organized by Emanuele Colombo (Depaul University) and Stephen Schloesser (Loyola), the workshop consisted of presentations of current and future scholarly and digital projects. Presenting were: Scott Hendrickson, SJ, on “Continued Research on Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, SJ (1595-1658)”;
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The Cardinal of State, replying to Pedro Arrupe, provided the responses of Pope Paul VI to the decrees of the 32nd General Congregation. After “carefully” examining the decrees, the pontiff found some “somewhat confusing and could, because of the way they are expressed, give grounds for misinterpretation.” Therefore, Cardinal Jean-Marie Villot provides Arrupe with Paul VI’s “Particular
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Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu has published the first volume of Kilian Stumpf’s The Acta Pekinensia or Historical Records of the Maillard de Tournon Legation. Edited by Paul Rule and Claudia von Collani, the book presents, for the first time in English, the account of the first years (December 1705-August 1706) of the visit to China
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Oxford University Press has published The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context: Causes, Events, and Consequences, edited by Jeffrey Burson (Georgia Southern University) and Jonathan Wright (University of Oxford). Contents of this volume include: Plots and rumors of plots: the role of conspiracy in the international campaign against the Society of Jesus, 1758–68, by Dale K. Van
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