Father Julio Fernández Techera, a Jesuit priest and rector of the Catholic University of Uruguay, has written a widely circulated, critical essay about the Society of Jesus warning that the order, ...

The superior general of the Society of Jesus, Venezuelan priest Arturo Sosa, has convoked a meeting of all the Jesuit major superiors to be held this October in Rome to discuss various topics such as ...

Fr. Arturo Sosa, S.J., a former visiting researcher at Georgetown’s Center for Latin American Studies, was elected the 31st superior general of the Society of Jesus and the first non-European superior ...

Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Society of Jesus, celebrates Mass at the Church of the Gesù in Rome on Oct. 16, 2016. (CNS photo/Don Doll, S.J.) This article is a Cover Story selection, a ...

As the Jesuit leader in Central America, he pushed for justice when six priests were shot to death in the midst of El Salvador’s civil war. By Adam Nossiter Tania Tetlow, a laywoman and former law ...

Pope Francis was the first pontiff elected from the Society of Jesus or the Jesuits – one of the most prominent religious orders in the Catholic Church. Their reach extends from prestigious ...

It was time to elect a new “Black Pope.” Since 1942, when Polish Father Vladimir Ledochowski died, the Society of Jesus had been without a General. By last week, almost all the 200 electors had ...

The Nicaraguan regime has extinguished the Jesuits' legal status and ordered the expropriation of its assets, effectively making it illegal for the Society of Jesus to operate in the Central American ...

For four centuries at least, from the Council of Trent (1565) to Vatican II (1965), the Society of Jesus — better known as the Jesuits — dominated the spiritual and intellectual life of the Church.

Jesuit educational environments have inherited a distinctive characteristic directly derived from the spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola and the mindset of the earliest companions who co-founded ...

Tania Tetlow, a laywoman and former law professor, will take the helm this summer, breaking with a nearly 200-year tradition. By Liam Stack A former Jesuit priest and leader in bioethics, he believed ...