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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Accusations of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse of adult women over a 30-year period have led to the expulsion of prominent Slovenian Jesuit priest Marko Ivan Rupnik, accused of abusing ...

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 ...

‘I don’t think of Pope Francis as a reformer. I think of him as someone who continued the reform that the Church has always carried out.’ The superior general of the Society of Jesus, said Pope ...