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A picture of St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), the founder of the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits, who became the society's first superior general in 1541. (Photo: Goergetown) When a young ...

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Speaking at a campus forum on Jesuit and Catholic education, University President William P. Leahy, S.J., extolled the far-reaching vision of Jesuit founder Saint Ignatius of Loyola that continues to ...

The Ignatian Society of Boston College serves to promote the spirit and tradition of St. Ignatius of Loyola and the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) by fostering a campus culture rooted in reflection, ...

A friend from my undergraduate years at Loyola Marymount University who went on to become a Jesuit priest once said, “God likes to play hide and seek.” We were discussing the unexpected ways we ...

SAINTS & ART: For helping to keep the Jesuits alive during their 18th-century suppression, St. Joseph Pignatelli is regarded as the second ‘founder’ of the Society after St. Ignatius of Loyola 1893 ...