Jesuit Fr. Arturo Sosa Abascal, a member of the Jesuits' Venezuelan province, was elected the first non-European superior general of the Society of Jesus Oct. 14. The 212 voting delegates to the ...

Fr. Arturo Sosa, S.J., a former visiting researcher at Georgetown’s Center for Latin American Studies, was elected the 31st superior general of the Society of Jesus and the first non-European superior ...

Father Arturo Sosa, SJ, superior general of the Society of Jesus, reflected on the first Jesuit pope in a press conference on Thursday, saying Francis “did not seek to please everyone” or to measure ...

School of Theology and Ministry Dean Thomas Stegman, S.J., served as a delegate to the 36th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus (GC36), where Arturo Sosa, S.J., of Venezuela was elected the ...

Pope Francis is flanked by Jesuits' superior general Arturo Sosa Abascal, left as he leaves the Church of the Gesu', mother church of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), after presiding a mass on March 12 ...

Founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola in the 16th century and now with some 16,000 members in 112 countries, the Society of Jesus is Catholicism's largest religious order. The Jesuits, as they are known, ...

Pope John Paul II with Pedro Arrupe, S.J., in a 1991 photo. (CNS photo/courtesy Jesuits Global) The Society of Jesus announced on Feb. 29, 2024, that the sainthood cause of Servant of God Pedro Arrupe ...

NEWS ANALYSIS: Although estranged from his own religious order for more than two decades, Pope Francis reconciled immediately after his election and remained a committed Jesuit until his death. Pope ...

On April 26, 1703, a Jesuit in his twenties, recently recovered from an illness, wrote from Palermo, Sicily, to Tirso González de Santalla, SJ, the Jesuit superior general in Rome: “The [Indies] ...