On the feast of the Assumption of 15 August, we remember a Congregation that is no longer active, less known than the Marian Congregations or the numerous confraternities present in… Read more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
In Florence, in an area, today, not far from the city centre where there are almost exclusively blocks of flats, many people remember that in the place of one of… Read more
Let us virtually enter the Jesuit refectory today by reading an ‘approved Leviticus’ or a real weekly menu dispensed to homes, in this case from the Collegio Romano, a bit… Read more
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Versailles peace treaty, in this edition of the column we recall the First World War as recounted in… Read more
We have already seen that future presidents, scientists and leading figures of 19th and 20th century society from different social and geographical backgrounds studied in Jesuit schools. Today our column… Read more
Royal weddings, recent chronicles prove, are always events that attract media attention, the last one was celebrated in England, in Windsor Castle. Our archive could hardly give an account of… Read more
An in-depth look at Father Pirri, on the occasion of the conference to be held on 10 May at the Sala Assunta of the Residenza del Gesù in Rome to… Read more
In the Colleges of the Society of Jesus, today as in the past, it was customary to have a uniform for all boarders, an element that avoided the use of… Read more
Scholars, teachers, sometimes so young as to be only students… there are many different ‘careers’ or assignments undertaken by Jesuits before entering the Society, one of them was even a… Read more
Today we take a closer look at the life and work of one of the Maltese fathers who, a century before the birth of the current province, worked in great… Read more
Astronomy, didactics, spirituality, ancient literature, there are many fields of knowledge in which Jesuits have distinguished themselves over the centuries and made their contribution as scholars and disseminators of their… Read more
