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Bookmark or Share- Jesuits Worldwide - Jesuits.orgAlthough most people encounter Jesuits locally in schools and other ministries, the Society of Jesus is in fact a missionary order — the largest such order in the Catholic Church. Fr. Arturo Sosa, S.J., Superior General of the Jesuits, has said that, “You can find Jesuits, true Jesuits, in every region, in every color, in every activity.
- Our Mission - Jesuits.orgThe 14,000-plus Jesuits worldwide come from more than 110 countries and belong to over 60 provinces, but the order has “a universal character that transcends” these boundaries, according to one official Jesuit declaration.
- Jesuits Home - Jesuits.orgService and justice are key priorities of Jesuit education. Pedro Arrupe, a beloved Superior General of the Jesuits (from 1965 to 1983), said the principle objective of Jesuit education is to form “men and women for others, men and women who will not live for themselves but for God and his Christ.”
- About Us - Jesuits.orgWe are the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests and brothers founded half a millennium ago by the soldier-turned-mystic Ignatius Loyola. But most people just call us “the Jesuits.”
- Who are the Jesuits? - Jesuits.orgWho are the Jesuits? When they had finished their studies, Ignatius and his companions decided to offer themselves to the pope for whatever ministry he wished. They discerned that God was calling them to form a new religious order, the Society of Jesus.
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