When Jim Scanlan heard that the priest who raped him and so many others had died, he was surprised at his own reaction.

The Rule of St. Augustine offered monks a firm structure for their daily lives of work and prayer, even before the mendicant ...

Pope Francis prays near the tomb of Father Pedro Arrupe, SJ, superior general of the Society of Jesus between 1965 and 1981, during a Mass at the Jesuit Church of the Most Holy Name of Jesus ...

Jesús Malverde is both a folk hero and a controversial figure in Mexican religious life. Revered by drug traffickers and the ...

His views do not represent the position of the entire Society of Jesus.

(In case you missed it: Never before had a member of the Society of Jesus been elected to the papacy.) Less remarked upon—though just as historic—is another precedent he quietly overturned ...

AP Francis was ordained a priest in 1969 and made his final profession with the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits, in 1973. The same year, he was appointed as a provincial for the order.

His affiliation with the Augustinians echoes Francis’s Jesuit commitments. He was the first member of the Society of Jesus to reign as pope. Pope Leo XIV appears to share with his predecessor a ...

In the 400-odd years of its existence, the Society of Jesus has been suppressed, at one time or another, in nearly every nation in which it has labored. In Spain the Jesuits have been expelled or ...

Arturo Sosa, S.J. the superior general of the Society of Jesus, said in a press conference on April 10 that he supported the decision by Lourdes to cover up the Rupnik mosaics but added ...

Ad majorem Dei gloriam is the Latin motto of the Society of Jesus. Shown above, a 10-foot bronze sculpture on the Boston College campus portrays St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order, as a ...