Below are transcriptions of two events during Pedro Arrupe’s visit to Manilla in September 1971. The first item contains some of the reactions to remarks Arrupe had delivered, reactions from Father Vincente San Juan, Bishop Felix Perez, and others. Jerome Aixala, in providing this selection for a book published by Jesuit Sources, notes that these
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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
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Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits & Modern Rhetorical Studies is now available through Fordham University Press. Cinthia Gannett and John Brereton edit what the publisher describes as a “groundbreaking collection explores the important ways Jesuits have employed rhetoric, the ancient art of persuasion and the current art of communications, from the sixteenth century to the
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