Father General

On 18 November, Father General Arturo Sosa appointed Fr. Daniel de Ycaza (55,) as the new Provincial of Ecuador Province. He was born in 1967 and joined the Society in 1986. He obtained his degree in philosophy...

He stares at us while his family is stressed and worried at the train station in Lviv, Ukraine. Blindness and sight, darkness and light are metaphors Christ often used to describe the spiritual realm. This piece bears the seal of the Society of Jesus...

The Jesuit world uses its own vocabulary that is sometimes not very accessible to outsiders. For example, the word “Socius”. The Provincial Superior always has a “Socius”, as does the Master of novices. From November 6-11, at the General Curia...

In 2021, Fr. Arturo Sosa invited the Jesuit artist Arturo Araujo to create a series of artworks to bring to life the corridor that runs alongside his office. Conversations between the Superior General and the artist led to the proposal of a graphic representation...

Father General has appointed Fr. Máximo Mendoza Coronel (59) as the new Provincial of the Province of Paraguay on the 21st of October 2022.

Father General has appointed Fr. Joseph Pham Tuan Nghia (49) as the new Provincial of the Province of Vietnam. He is currently the rector of the St. Joseph's Scholasticate in Thu Duc.

One of the main initiatives taken by the “Women’s Commission” of the Society has been to organize a worldwide survey. Here, the director of the project tells us more about the goals, methods and status of their enterprise.

It is certainly rare to have more women than men attending a meeting at the General Curia. This is the situation at the Curia from 22 to 29 October, when the Commission on the Role and Responsibilities of Women in the Society of Jesus is meeting in Rome.

On the last day of his visit to the Province of Madagascar, Fr. Arturo Sosa, Superior General, spent some time at the Centre Arrupe Madagascar. He is familiar with the social centres of the Society of Jesus in Latin America and...

“When the Bevalala Professional Training Centre was created in 1973, the aim was to provide training for young rural people who wanted to become entrepreneurs in agriculture and animal husbandry. In an effort to modernise and professionalise...”

During his visit to the Province of Madagascar at the beginning of October, Father General Arturo Sosa visited the shrine of St. Jacques Berthieu. He blessed the last ‘station’ of the Way of the Cross of Father Berthieu and...

Father General visited the novitiate in Analamahitsy, near Antananarivo, the capital of the country. He was able to talk with these young Madagascans who have been called to the Society of Jesus; he also met with the formation team.