Slovenian Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik, whose mosaics decorate chapels in the Vatican, all over Europe, in the United States and Australia, has been barred from hearing confessions or offering spiritual direction after what the Jesuits described as complaints about his ministry.
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Jesuit Father John W. O'Malley, whose perspectives and expertise on church history and the Second Vatican Council attracted audiences that included undergraduate students and well-educated theologians, died at the Jesuit community in Baltimore Sept. 11. He was 95.
A prolific author whose books
The unity of the Catholic Church's bishops is fundamental in correcting past wrongs and in confronting challenges today, Pope Francis said.
Meeting with a group of Jesuits in Canada July 29, the pope said his visit was made possible by the unity of
Pope Francis gave the editors of 10 Jesuit magazines a glimpse into how he makes decisions, background on one of his more controversial comments about the war in Ukraine and insight into what he sees as the refusal of some bishops to
Monsignor Owen Campiion tells the story of Father Walter Ciszak, an American who was ordained a Jesuit priest and crossed into communist Soviet Union in order to find Catholics and minister to them: “In 1941, the authorities caught him. He underwent severe
The decrease of vocations to religious life, including in the Society of Jesus, is a lesson in humility and a reminder that a calling to religious life depends on God, Pope Francis told Jesuits in Greece.
"The Lord sends the vocations," the pope
The Catholic Church suffers from a temptation to attempt to return to attitudes and practices of the past, an attitude that blocks pastoral outreach to many of those who are marginalized, Pope Francis told Jesuits in Slovakia.
"We are suffering this today in
The new leader of Jesuits in the western United States is both a champion and student of migrants.
Jesuit Father Sean Carroll, 55, was founding executive director of the Arizona-based Kino Border Initiative, a humanitarian aid ministry serving on both sides of the
Kathryn Jean Lopez remembers the life of Jesuit Father Joseph Koterski, a priest, author and professor at Fordham University. Father Christopher Cullen put it in his homily at Father Koterski’s funeral Mass: “For many years, I had thought that it was only
Caritas Italy announced the suspension of charitable activities in Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban's takeover of the country.
In a statement released Aug. 15, Caritas said the "instability of the situation has led to the suspension of all activities" and has