Fifteen years later, the missionaries of the Society of Jesus arrived, also known as the Jesuits and the "soldiers of Christ". They had had great success in converting pagans in Asia, Africa ...

A Moroccan man is facing charges after the mysterious death of a Massachusetts priest in Spain. The Rev. Richard Gross, 80, ...

The roots of Boston College lie in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, the 2,000-year Catholic intellectual tradition, and the faith experience of St. Ignatius Loyola, who founded the Society of ...

Recent discussions of Jesus' social class try to locate him within the social structures of Mediterranean society generally, or Galilean society, in the first century. And there seems to be a ...

The Ignatian Society of Boston College serves to promote the spirit and tradition of St. Ignatius and the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits). Our work focuses on two key areas: Keeping graduates from ...

Q. Who are the Jesuits? A. Jesuits are members of the Society of Jesus, an international, Roman Catholic religious order founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola in the 16th century. Today, the best-known ...

The Irish Province of the Society of Jesus is the local branch of the Society of Jesus, one of the largest religious orders in the Catholic Church. The Irish Province is a registered charity. It ...

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, ...

In this view, a "historical Jesus" became mythologized. For over 200 years, a wide ranging array of theologians and historians grounded in this perspective have analyzed ancient texts, both those ...