A cause has begun in the Diocese of Rome for the beatification of Fr. Pedro Arrupe SJ, former superior general of the Society of Jesus. The priest, who served as a mentor to the future Pope Francis, ...

An investigation into the potential sainthood of a former Jesuit leader and early mentor to Pope Francis will conclude its diocesan-level phase in mid-November, after which the Vatican can start ...

Pedro Arrupe was born in Bilbao in 1907 and entered the Society of Jesus twenty years later. He was expelled from Spain with all his fellow Jesuits in 1932, ordained a priest in 1936, and left for ...

Pope Francis, who belongs to the Jesuit order, periodically meets with Jesuit magazine editors to discuss the direction of the Church. These interviews are invariably newsworthy. In 2013, he made ...

One of Boston College’s hallmark service-immersion programs has resumed for the first time since January 2020, affirming for a new cohort of Boston College students the deep ties of the Jesuits to El ...

The ceremony will take place on what would have been Father Arrupe’s 117th birthday. Pope Francis prays near the tomb of Father Pedro Arrupe, SJ, superior general of the Society of Jesus between 1965 ...