In the middle of the Sixteenth Century the Catholic Church seemed in grave danger of disintegration. Northern Europe, including England, Germany and the Scandinavian countries, had openly revolted ...

In August 1761 the Parlement of Paris declared the doctrine of the Jesuit Order “meurtrière et abominable ... when a royal edict dissolved the Society of Jesus in France. This act of suppression was ...

Pope Francis, the first member of the Society of Jesus to be elected to the papacy, reflected on the Jesuits’ prayerful response to suppression. “Today, remembering its restoration, we are called to ...

Dissolution, or suppression, of a pontifically recognized religious movement is a major undertaking for a pope, all the more so for a Jesuit pope given the Jesuit religious order was itself ...