Managing, organising and maintaining a community, these are the constant concerns of the ministerial fathers and bursars of the communities of the Society of Jesus, yesterday as today.
It has passed its four-thousandth issue, it is 170 years old this year, and it is the oldest magazine in the Italian language: today we deal with La Civiltà Cattolica
If today, for employees and workers, we speak of thirteenth month pay, Christmas bonuses and other financial considerations typical of the month of December, we can also identify some forms… Read more
The issue of heating in a community is a theme that recurs several times in the diaries of a home or boarding school, arousing various reactions… some of them quite… Read more
The former provinces, which merged into the Province of Italy in 1978, were responsible for several missions. Even in previous centuries, both the Society and other religious orders had missions,… Read more
On the occasion of 2 November, the feast of the dead, we dedicate an in-depth look at tomb epigraphs.
In Rome, in the modern age, several Confraternities were responsible for praying for sinners, for souls in purgatory, for children who had died prematurely, for those who had suffered a… Read more
The affection and esteem reserved for the Jesuit by his contemporaries contributed to the birth of a magazine ‘Friends of Fr Picco’, which over time has updated its readers on… Read more
Our archive today once again offers us objects, owned by a Jesuit, that have survived a century of history and come down to us. In fact, the fonds of the… Read more
The dress of the Jesuits, not exempt from rules, changed over the centuries and the Society always drew up rules for the clothing and composition of the wardrobe at home.
On the feast of the Assumption of 15 August, we remember a Congregation that is no longer active, less known than the Marian Congregations or the numerous confraternities present in… Read more
The Society of Jesus, like many religious orders, has had many benefactors since the time of Ignatius of Loyola, some able to endow the Society with real estate or to… Read more
