The Jesuit order was established in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola, a Basque courtier who experienced a religious conversion when he was 30 years old. Believing that God is active in history, Ignatius ...

The cause for the canonization of Pedro Arrupe, S.J., 28th superior general of the Society of Jesus, took an important step ...

The Vatican Film Library holds microfilms of approximately 13,000 manuscripts from a variety of libraries and archives relating to activities of the Society of Jesus in North, Central, and South ...

The Society of Jesus – more commonly known as the Jesuits – is a Catholic order of priests and brothers founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, a Spanish soldier-turned-mystic who worked to find “God in all ...

At first, no single activity defined the new religious order. The early Jesuits preached in the streets ... Two hundred years later, there were more than 800 in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. They ...

The Society of Jesus, a Catholic order committed to advancing ... and the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., that are Catholic but not Jesuit. “What makes a Jesuit university ...

Here on the semi-arid frontier of Spanish South America now known as Chiquitanía the Jesuits and their indigenous charges blended European architecture with local traditions. The six historic missions ...

Vatican reporter Nicole Winfield held Pope Francis’ Jesuit order to account by challenging the superior general to come clean with the truth about a famous Jesuit artist accused of sexual and ...