May, 2025

On 8 May 2025, Pope Leo XIV was elected as the Bishop of Rome and the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church. Father General Arturo Sosa addresses this letter offering prayers for the Pope, and reaffirming the Society’s historic availability for service to the Church.

In a historic moment for the Catholic Church, white smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in the evening of 8 May, signaling the successful election of a new Pope. Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost...

The Jesuit Global Network of Schools (JGNS) continues to take significant steps toward deeper collaboration and a shared mission. A testament to this commitment was the recent visits of Fr John Ravi, SJ and Fr Leonardus Winandoko, SJ...

The world turns its eyes towards the Vatican with expectation as the Catholic Church stands at a historic threshold – the beginning of the papal conclave to elect the next Supreme Pontiff...

Let us pray that through work, each person might find fulfilment, families might be sustained in dignity, and that society might be humanized.

From his election on 13 March 2013 to his final Easter blessing, Pope Francis embodied the Jesuit ideals of the magis (the greater good). His radical humility and his actions ad maiorem Dei gloriam (“for the greater glory of God”) were seen throughout his papacy...

“A flame is perhaps the image that best conveys the essence of Francis’ inspiration... There is a flame that has always moved him from within: the ‘peace of restlessness’, which is the oxymoron par excellence of the Jesuits, the fruit of ‘discernment’...”