Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jesuit headquarters in Borgo Santo Spirito near St. Peter's Square, the modern men in wool met in Extraordinary General Congregation, the sixth since Loyola's death, to settle pressing business facing the Society of Jesus, largest and most powerful order in the Roman Catholic Church...
...Issue. For years, it has been plain that the top command job in the Jesuit order was too much for one man, that ailing Father Janssens' personal decisions were meticulous but sometimes slow. Toughest problem: every day Janssens must appoint from two to five new rectors or heads of globally scattered missions. Under the present system, the order's Provincials (roughly equivalent to local field commanders) submit names to Janssens' eight Assistants* (staff officers), but Janssens himself reviews all cases, makes all final decisions...
...Order. Whatever form the organizational change takes, the need for it is plain merely in the statistics of Jesuit growth and activity. Numbering 15,000 at the turn of the century, the Society of Jesus has since more than doubled in size, now stands at a record 33,732. Largest single contingent: the 8,156 Jesuits of the U.S. In various parts of the world, Jesuits...
...Publish 1,320 periodicals in 50 different languages, including 24 U.S. magazines, e.g., America, Jesuit Missions. ¶Administer 174 houses of retreat...
...Whether his eye is fixed on a plant or a planet, a chemical retort or a dialectical retort to Communist propaganda, every Jesuit everywhere owes his unswerving obedience to his tactful, affable and unassuming Superior General. Belgian-born Jesuit Janssens wryly credits his painstaking, lifelong concern for accuracy to the fact that his father was a tax collector. A precocious youngster, young Janssens was first in his class at school every year from the age of nine through 15, won a gold medal and the title primus perpetuus, i.e., everlasting first. At 17, he entered the Society of Jesus, took...