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May 2017: Conference in Rome on Catholic Missionaries

Going Native or Remaining Foreign? Catholic Missionaries as Local Agents in Asia (17th to 18th Centuries), a conference in Rome (30 May-1 June), seeks to “compare missionaries’ roles as local agents in different social environments across the Asian continent.”   Panels are centered on communicative settings for missionary work (urban, court, settings, and rural), and presentations include:   “Jesuit

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Cum Ex Plurium (1539)

“The founding of the Society of Jesus,” Jesuit historian Joseph Conwell has argued, “begins with a discernment process.” The fruits of that process of discernment appear in the following document, Cum ex plurim, written by Ignatius and his companions in 1539. The document articulates the founders’ vision for what became the Jesuit order. Indeed, five

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Five Chapters (1539)

The following text was first orally approved by Pope Paul III in 1539. More commonly known as the “Five Chapters,” the document serves the first foundational document of what became the Society of Jesus, stating the key purposes of the proposed religious order. The document was later revised in 1540 (approved in the papal bull

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Addresses at General Congregations

More famous for their promulgated decrees, the General Congregations also feature important addresses, homilies, and statements–remarks that help guide the work of the Jesuit delegates assembled at the congregations but also the subsequent work at the Jesuit apostolates around the globe. Below is a selection of those addresses from the most recent General Congregations. For

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  Author Document Title Date  Contributor Maruca, Dominic (translator) Deliberations of Our First Fathers 1539 Maryland Province, Society of Jesus Conwell, Joseph F. (translator) Cum Ex Plurium (Prima Societatis Iesu instituti summa) 1539 Oregon Province, Society of Jesus Costellone, M. Joseph (translator) The First Jesuits’ Vow of Obedience 1539 Institute of Jesuit Sources Five Chapters

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