From Ignatius to Francis: The Jesuits in History by Michael Walsh, Michael Walsh

From Ignatius to Francis: The Jesuits in History
Michael Walsh, Michael Walsh
Page: 328
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ISBN: 9780814684917
Publisher: Liturgical Press
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Pope Francis is the first member of the Society of Jesus, the Catholic Church’s largest religious order of men, to be elected to the papacy in its nearly five-hundred-year existence, even though the Society is known for the special vow of obedience to the papacy taken by its leading members. Yet despite that oath of loyalty, Jesuits and popes have frequently been at loggerheads, eventually leading to one pope imprisoning the Jesuit superior general and entirely abolishing the Society. While recounting the more significant events in the history of the Jesuit order, this book pays particular attention to the controversies that have surrounded it, especially those concerning human freedom.

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