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 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) described as “senseless” a lawsuit filed on Oct. 2 by a group of former students of the John XXIII School in Bolivia against the order’s provincial, Father Bernardo ...

Editor's Note: This is Part I of an analysis of the current state of the Jesuits. Part II, covering some Jesuits’ quest for renewal and the significant roadblocks they face, is available here.

Father Marko Rupnik’s former superior in the Society of Jesus, Father Johan Verschueren, denied that the Jesuits facilitated the incardination of the priest, who is accused of sexual abuse, in the ...

Catholics attend Mass at the Maria Auxiliadora Catholic church in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, May 26, 2023. Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Bolivia are acknowledging that the institution has been ...

"I don't want to hurt Jesuit Prep," said one former student alleging abuse by a priest at the Dallas high school. But he and ...

Mike Pedevilla, who also says the Rev. Patrick Koch sexually abused him while he was a student at Jesuit Dallas, points to a picture of Koch in a 1980s yearbook. Ryan Michalesko / Staff Photographer ...

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.

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 Catholic Church, his funeral has been set for April 26. Not only was ...

Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Society of Jesus, celebrates Mass at the Church of the Gesu in Rome in this Oct. 16, 2016, file photo. (CNS photo/Don Doll, S.J.) On March 8—International ...

“How can you openly disagree with the church,” I asked my ethics professor at the end of class in 2001. I was an undergrad at Boston College, a Jesuit school. The professor, a Jesuit priest, had just ...

St. Ignatius and Juana of Austria, one of few female members in the history of the Society of Jesus, and the only woman to die a Jesuit. Portrait by Alonso Sánchez Coello, circa 1557 (Wikimedia ...