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Notre Dame historian reveals institutional flaws and failures within Jesuit order behind current scandals

March 20, 2024

The pattern of behaviour shown by Jesuit leadership in the management of the high-profile Rupnik scandal has centuries of institutional practice behind it. That’s according to Ulrich Lehner, a prominent historian at the University of Notre Dame, who has just published a German-language study of the Jesuits’ historical handling of abuse in their ranks. In

Lifting the lid on the Jesuits

May 27, 2022

Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy Camilla Russell Harvard University Press, £39.95, 256 pages What makes this book so impressive is the quality of Camilla Russell’s research into the substantial volume of documents produced by Jesuits of the Society’s five Italian provinces during the later 16th and early 17th centuries. This documentation is housed in

Among 20th Century Jesuits, two heroic holy men stand out

September 15, 2017

Frs Rupert Mayer and Walter Ciszek were heroic, holy men, who suffered greatly for their witness to their priestly vocation

Why I’ll never doubt the Devil’s existence

June 15, 2017

The Devil is not a symbol, but a being, says Matthew Walther

Morning Catholic must-reads: 31/10/16

October 31, 2016

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Venezuelan Fr Arturo Sosa Abascal is named new leader of the Jesuits

October 14, 2016

He becomes the 30th successor of St Ignatius of Loyola

The Jesuits’ next chapter

September 29, 2016

The new superior general must be holy, humorous, a good administrator and able to lead the Society's worldwide efforts for justice

Jesuits prepare to elect new leader

September 26, 2016

The Society is holding its first general congregation since 2008

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