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America is a monthly Catholic magazine published by the Jesuits of the United States and headquartered in midtown Manhattan. It contains news and opinion about Catholicism and how it relates to American politics and cultural life. It has been published continuously since 1909, and is also available online.
The Jesuit provinces were first organized into an "assistancy" (a regional grouping of provinces), [16] called the Jesuit Conference of the United States, in 1972. [17] A new, consolidated assistancy was created in 2014, called the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, under which all the provinces in the two countries are ...
It is sometimes said that in 2013 the first Jesuit pope was elected, Pope Francis, however Pope Leo XIII is an earlier contender. The following is a complete list of contemporary living Jesuit cardinals. [2] Three of them are above 80 years of age and thus are ineligible as a papal elector.
The Rev. Marko Ivan Rupnik remains a Catholic priest but is no longer a Jesuit priest, after he didn’t appeal his June expulsion decree, said Rupnik’s former superior, the Rev. Johan Verschueren.
The Jesuits said Thursday they had provided the diocese of Koper, Slovenia an “extensive letter” outlining the allegations against the Rev. Marko Ivan Rupnik and notice that he had been conv
The Jesuits’ Office of Justice and Ecology at the Conference engages with "legislators, public officials, corporations and the Jesuit network on issues including immigration and economic, criminal, juvenile and environmental justice." [14] It also carries worldwide news on ecological initiatives, especially Jesuit initiatives. [15]
Prior to the Civil War, Jesuit plantations in the United States owned African-American slaves and participated in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. In 1838, to raise funds Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. sold 272 African-American slaves to plantation owners in Louisiana for the current-day equivalent of three million dollars. Jesuits ...
Thomas J. Reese, SJ (born 1945) is an American Catholic Jesuit priest, author, and journalist. He is a senior analyst at Religion News Service, a former columnist at National Catholic Reporter, and a former editor-in-chief of the weekly Catholic magazine America.