Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus on July 21, 1773. In the preceding decades, the Jesuits had suffered expulsions from the Catholic empires of Portugal (1759), France (1764), and Spain (1767), where they had become handy scapegoats for kings or princes under civic pressure. In Portugal, for example, charges against the Society included […]
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Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (IHSI) has published an important new book on the Jesuit Irish mission. The Jesuit Irish Mission: A Calendar of Correspondence, 1566–1752, edited by Vera Moynes, is the first inventory of the correspondence between the Jesuit missionaries and the Jesuit leadership at the Curia. According to IHSI, the single-volume book serves as
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The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies calls for applications for its in-residence fellowships to facilitate the completion and/or publication of academic work related to the Society of Jesus. Applications are now welcomed from scholars in the fields of history, spirituality, and pedagogy, among others. The submission deadline is January 15, 2018. The Institute
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On December 6, 2017, the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana di Scienze Lettere e Arti hosts a conference to mark the bicentennial of the death of Jesuit scholar Juan Andrés (1740-1817). Andrés, born in Spain, was a prominent Christian humanist and literary critic. The conference in Mantua, Italy features nine presentations over two sessions. A program, appearing below,
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The Macau Ricci Institute has launched a new, bi-annual publication — the Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute. Dedicated as a “Journal of Moral Leadership, Social Innovation and Comparative Spirituality,” the Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute is edited by Stephan Rothlin and co-edited by Dennis P. McCann and Mike J. Thompson. Thierry Meynard is the associate
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The fifth of six decrees promulgated by the 35th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus concerned the order’s “governance structures and ways of proceeding.” The decree, appearing below, is a highly technical and internally focused document. Among its measures, the decree directs the new superior general “to undertake a comprehensive review of the central
The third of six decrees promulgated by the delegates at the 35th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus articulated some of the main challenges facing the Jesuits and their works. The decree, appearing below, reaffirms the Society’s mission in the face of challenges, places that mission the new context of the dawn of the
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In the degree below, the delegates of the 34th General Congregation grant certain powers and responsibilities to their order’s new superior general, Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, with those powers mainly concerning the issuance of the congregation’s decrees and recommendations. They also require Kolvenbach “to complete the work on the Complementary Norms and the Notes to the Constitutions
This decree demonstrates the concern among the delegates to the 34th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus for “immediate and decisive action” to support the “interprovincial works entrusted to us by the Holy See.” Those Jesuit houses and works included the Pontifical Gregorian University, the Pontifical Biblical Institute, the Pontifical Oriental Institute, and the
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The 34th General Congregation issued the following decree on the Jesuits’ work at universities, where “teaching, research, and scholarly publication” had continued “almost since the foundation of the Society.” In the text below, the delegates acknowledge that “Jesuit higher education has undergone very rapid development” in recent years—such as with the decreasing number of Jesuits
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