Markus Friedrich is passionate about Jesuit history—how it is studied, how it should not be studied and about its larger importance today. A professor of history at the University of Hamburg, ...

Monday, I started my review of Jesuit Fr. David Collins' wonderful new book, The Jesuits in the United States: A Concise History. Today, we will pick up where we left off, in the early 19th century, ...

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, ...

Above: Rev. Francis G. Parker, S.J., Father Minister and Executive Vice President of the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, left, with Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe, Father General, Society of Jesus, ...

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 ...

Correction: The original version of this story used an estimate for the number of enslaved people in St. Louis provided by the Slavery, History, Memory and Reconciliation Project. After this story was ...