Pope Francis, the Catholic Church's 266th pontiff, was the first Jesuit to lead the church in its nearly 2,000-year history. More than 200,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square April 26 to ...

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In Spain the Jesuits have been expelled or disbanded five times since 1776. The last dissolution of the order was in 1932, when the Spanish Government deprived the Society of its title to $ ...

Georgetown University and the Jesuits are pledging $27 million in donations to support the descendants of hundreds of enslaved people who were sold in the 19th century to fund the university ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — As news of Pope Francis' death spreads around the world, there's one particular word that keeps getting mentioned, Jesuit. That's the name for members of an order or ...

His election was “doubly surprising,” both because he was a Jesuit — Jesuits take a special vow not to seek out higher offices in the church and none had ever been elected pope before ...

Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Francis also was the first Jesuit pope of the Catholic Church. The Society of Jesus, commonly called the Jesuits, are an order of "priests, brothers ...