Enslaved people lived in the crowded log cabin in the left foreground of this picture. They built the white frame building, which served as the St. Regis Indian School in the 19th century, and later ...

Mulledy Hall, also known as Freedom Hall, center, on the campus of Georgetown University April 4. The building will be renamed after Isaac Hawkins, the first enslaved person listed in the Jesuit ...

The suppression and subsequent restoration of the Society of Jesus shows the importance of discernment and trusting in God even in tribulation, rather than relying on one's own cunning or dwelling on ...

Pope Francis was the first pontiff elected from the Society of Jesus — also known as the Jesuits.It's one of the most prominent religious orders in the Catholic Church, with approximately 15,000 ...

They numbered 20,408 at the start of the 21st century, and their 400-year history is marked by crisis, accomplishment and persecution. They are the Jesuits, the Society of Jesus founded by Ignatius of ...

The Jesuits are the single-largest Catholic order, known for their dedication to education and devotion to the poor. But in the past, they have... Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio's ascendency to Pope Francis ...

University of Hamburg history professor Friedrich (The Birth of the Archive) delivers a fast-paced and richly researched history of the Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits. Starting with ...

Monday, I started my review of Jesuit Fr. David Collins' wonderful new book, The Jesuits in the United States: A Concise History. Today, we will pick up where we left off, in the early 19th century, ...

Jesuits established a trust to answer for their history of enslaving Black people. But frustrated descendants tell Rome the order is “not delivering in deed.” By Rachel L. Swarns A prominent order of ...

The Society of Jesus is a religious order founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola in 1540 as a means of helping to restore the Roman Catholic Church in the wake of the Protestant Reformation. In the ...

VATICAN CITY While the Vatican has picked the highly disciplined Jesuits as advance men for planning papal pilgrimages and to run its worldwide broadcasting network, the notion of a Jesuit pope is ...