Father General

Father General Arturo Sosa, continuing his visitation of Jesuit works in the Holy Land, had a unique experience of the cultural and ministerial diversity of the region. Six Christian Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel – four men and two women from Jerusalem and the north of Israel...

More than 500 years ago – on September 1, 1523 – Ignatius of Loyola made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. It was his fervent desire to live and work there as a simple servant of God until his death. However, with war in the region looming he was forced to return to Europe where he would...

Father General has appointed Fr Francys Silvestrini Adão as the new Provincial of the Province of Brazil. Born in Iconha (Espírito Santo) in 1979, Fr Adão entered the Society of Jesus in 1999 at the Novitiate of Our Lady of Grace in Feira de Santana (Bahia) and was ordained a priest...

Father General Arturo Sosa visited four schools of the Mediterranean Apostolic Platform as part of his visit to the Province of Spain. The school tour included Escuelas San José in Valencia, Colegio Borja in Gandía, and two schools in Alicante – Colegio Inmaculada and Colegio Nazaret...

The visit of the Superior General of the Society of Jesus to Gandía puts the spotlight back on the birthplace of San Francisco de Borja and on a relationship – spiritual, cultural, and educational – that spans five centuries. Father Sosa’s itinerary...

A year after the torrential rains that devastated the Valencian Community on October 29, 2024, the Society of Jesus continues to maintain an active support network that was born during the emergency and today continues to sustain processes of social, educational, and spiritual...

The works of the Society in the Valencian Community will play host to Father General Arturo Sosa during part of his visit to Spain. During his stay, he will visit places such as the Escuelas San José, the Centro Arrupe in Valencia, and the Colegio Nazaret in Alicante...

“The parable we have just heard, coming at the close of the meeting of Major Superiors, makes me think of the Meditation on the Two Standards and the first paragraphs of Decree 2 of General Congregation 32 (GC 32). Reminding us of our identity, Decree 2 asks...”

Over the past days, the Jesuit leaders reflected deeply on themes that shape the life-mission of the Society today: the Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs), collaboration, Cura Apostolica and Cura Personalis, safeguarding, structures of governance, promotion of vocations...

“The Society of Jesus has long been present where humanity’s needs meet God’s saving love.” Pope Leo XIV affirmed this during his audience on 24 October with global Jesuit leaders gathered in Rome for a 10-day meeting...

Yesterday evening, in the chapel of St Francis Borgia at the General Curia in Rome, Fr General Arturo Sosa officially opened the 3rd Meeting of Major Superiors (MMS). From every corner of the world, Jesuits have come to discuss, with their brothers, the challenges that...

After months of preparation, the opening days of the Meeting of Major Superiors (MMS) are here. The General Curia has come alive with the sound of rolling suitcases in its corridors and greetings exchanged in many languages, as Jesuits arrive from every corner of the world...