Pope Francis was elected in 2013 as the first member of the Jesuit order, the Society of Jesus ... Augustinians were among ...

For Vatican experts, the election of American Robert Francis Prevost Martinez as the new pope sends clear political and ...

The world receives a message of ‘peace and justice’ from the Vatican amid global turmoil and a long shadow of abuse in the church ...

There, he directed his students to embrace teachings and practices that had been adopted from the Jesuits’ early missions in Latin America: an “option for the poor” expressed in manual labor ...

The death of Pope Francis marks the end of an era for the Catholic Church in Latin ... of Jesuits inclined toward Marxist theology, who sent him “to a very remote place, where his main mission ...

More from Explainers Pope Francis: First from Latin America, who reformed Vatican ... Ignatius emphasised the missionary, international reach of the order. The Jesuits have spent the next hundreds of ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world ... He entered the diocesan seminary but switched to the Jesuit order in 1958, attracted to its missionary tradition and ...

He was also the first Jesuit to be elected to the throne of ... would help rejuvenate the Vatican and reinvigorate its holy mission. But within the Vatican bureaucracy some of Francis's attempts ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff ... In 1958, he switched to the Jesuit order, attracted by its missionary tradition and militancy.

“For decades, he served the most vulnerable across Argentina and his mission of serving the poor never ... and in 2013 he became the first pontiff from Latin America and also the first Jesuit pope. He ...