Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Billions are mourning Pope Francis, who died on April 21, and as people reflect of his life's work as the first Jesuit pope of the ...

The Society of Jesus, goes an old Jesuit joke, is “a monarchy limited only by the incompetence of its superiors and the insubordination of their subjects.” Since the death last October of the Very Rev ...

For centuries, the Jesuits have worn many hats: missionaries, educators and preachers; writers and scientists; priests with the poor and confessors to the royal courts of Europe. But the Jesuits are ...

(RNS) Jesuits are bound by oath not to seek higher office in the Roman Catholic Church, and now one of them has been elected to its highest office: Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Christ, Pontifex Maximus.

Father Miguel Almeida, S.J., the provincial of the Portuguese Jesuit province welcomes pilgrims to MAGIS 2023. Photo credit: MAGIS 2023 This article first appeared in Portuguese on Ponto SJ, the ...

Archbishop Robert Casey announced Church of the Resurrection in Bond Hill will shift from a parish group overseen by the archdiocese to the Jesuits.

There are few things in life that one ought to count on as certain. But, unless there were some very unforeseen difficulties, “the move” will be over by the time this essay appears in print. After ...

ROME — Starting on Oct. 2, Jesuit leaders from around the globe have been gathered in Rome at the 36th General Congregation of the Jesuit Curia. At the general congregation — the 36th such meeting ...

Pope Francis was the first pontiff elected from the Society of Jesus — also known as the Jesuits. It's one of the most prominent religious orders in the Catholic Church, with approximately 15,000 ...

Passionate Uncertainty Inside the American Jesuits by Peter McDonough and Eugene C. Bianchi University of California Press, 380 pp., $29.95 “MY DEAR FELLOW, we all see the difficulties that beset any ...