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Decree 24: “The Ongoing Formation of Superiors,” General Congregation 34 (1995)

This brief decree contains the recommendation by the delegates to the 34th General Congregation that their newly selected superior general provide updated copies of guidelines for the formation of superiors in the Society of Jesus. For more from the 34th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, please consult this page.     In order to

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Decree 6: “On Powers Granted by the General Congregation to the Superior General,” General Congregation 33 (1983)

The delegates to the 33rd General Congregation empowered the superior general with certain authority to act after the congregation closed. The following decree articulates those areas, which are in keeping those given by previous congregations to the superior general. For more from the 33rd General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, please consult this page.  

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Decree 3: “Fidelity of the Society to the Magisterium and the Supreme Pontiff,” General Congregation 32 (1975)

The delegates of the 32nd General Congregation, in the following decree, reaffirm the “reverence and fidelity which all Jesuits should have toward the magisterium of the Church and in a special way toward” the pope. Their decree also regrets that “some members of the Society” had failed to adhere to the “long and venerable tradition

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Decree 54: “Prior Censorship of Books,” General Congregation 31 (1966)

Postulta (or petitions) sent by Jesuits in advance of the 31st General Congregation requested that the congregation’s delegates revise the norms that previously censored some books. The delegates, in the following decree, respond to those requests by giving the superior general the authority to later “adapt the particular norms of our own law in this

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The Kind of Person the Superior General Ought to Be (1558)

This document, a chapter from the Part IX of the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus, articulates the desired qualities in the Jesuits’ superior general. Though the Constitutions were not approved until the first General Congregation of 1558, the first Jesuits elected Ignatius as their superior general in April 1541. Ignatius collaborated with Juan Alfonso

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Jesuit Domiciles

Jesuit Domiciles Map Navigate the interactive map Database Search the corrispondences Introduction In 1892, Alfred Hamy, S.J. (1838–1904), published Documents pour servir à l’histoire des domiciles de la Compagnie de Jésus dans le monde entier de 1540 à 1773 (Paris: Alphonse Picard, 1892). According to Hamy, this volume aimed to “spare those who study the

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World of Jesuit Archives (WJA) is a collaborative project with Jesuit archives around the world and aims to raise awareness and appreciation of the documentary heritage of the Society of Jesus, the institutions responsible for the conservation of archival material, and the people involved in the management of the collections in which the Society’s history

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