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Two Jesuit priests have been killed inside a church where a man pursued by gunmen apparently sought refuge in a remote mountainous area of northern Mexico, the religious order’s Mexican branch ...
Joseph O'Rourke – American pro-choice activist and former Jesuit priest; dismissed from the Jesuits and later laicized over his unauthorized baptism of a child whose mother publicly supported abortion rights; remained Catholic while strongly criticizing church teaching on sexuality; Derry O'Sullivan – Irish-French poet and former diocesan ...
Jesuit priests at the time of their solemn and final profession in the Society of Jesus promise to "never strive or ambition, not even indirectly, to be chosen or promoted to any prelacy or dignity in or outside the Society; and I will do my best never to consent to my election unless I am forced to do so by obedience to him who can order me under penalty of sin."
James Aloysius Martin SJ (August 30, 1902 – October 1, 2007) was an American Jesuit priest, professor and athletic director. Martin was the world's oldest Jesuit priest at the time of his death at the age of 105 at the Georgetown University Jesuit Residence in Washington, DC [1]
A famous priest-artist who was thrown out of the Jesuits after being accused of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse of women has been accepted into a diocese in his native Slovenia, the ...
A statement from the Jesuits, obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday, said the Rev. Marko Ivan Rupnik was dismissed from the Jesuit order by decree on June 9 “due to stubborn refusal to ...
Donald McGuire (July 9, 1930 – January 13, 2017) was an American Jesuit priest and convicted child molester. Prior to his conviction, McGuire was a prominent member of the Jesuit Order and had served as confessor to Mother Teresa. He died in 2017, while serving a 25-year prison sentence.
Jesuits were a target for Gestapo persecution, and many Jesuit priests were deported to death camps. [208] Jesuits made up the largest contingent of clergy imprisoned in the Priest Barracks of Dachau Concentration Camp. [209] Vincent Lapomarda lists some 30 Jesuits as having died at Dachau. [210]