FILE - Pope Francis is flanked by Jesuits' superior general Arturo Sosa Abascal, left as he leaves the Church of the Gesu', mother church of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), after presiding a mass on ...

Founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola in the 16th century and now with some 16,000 members in 112 countries, the Society of Jesus is Catholicism's largest religious order. The Jesuits, as they are known, ...

Arturo Sosa, S.J., Superior General of the Society of Jesus, granted an interview to America in the Jesuit Curia in Rome on the eve of the launch of a new book published to coincide with the Ignatian ...

Venezuelan Father Arturo Sosa Abascal SJ has a specialized knowledge of politics and social justice. Venezuelan Father Arturo Sosa Abascal SJ has been chosen as the new head of the Jesuits. (photo: ...

The 36th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus has elected Father Arturo Sosa Abascal, of the Venezuelan Province, Superior General. Father Arturo Sosa was born in Caracas, Venezuela, on ...

The superior general of the Society of Jesus, Venezuelan priest Arturo Sosa, has convoked a meeting of all the Jesuit major superiors to be held this October in Rome to discuss various topics such as ...

ROME (RNS) The Rev. Arturo Sosa is the first Latin American to hold the post, much as Pope Francis, also a Jesuit, is the first Latin American elected to the papacy. ROME (RNS) The Jesuits, one of the ...

Fr. Arturo Sosa, S.J., a former visiting researcher at Georgetown’s Center for Latin American Studies, was elected the 31st superior general of the Society of Jesus and the first non-European superior ...

The new leader of the global Jesuit order has said the Catholic church should recognize that women are still not allowed to have a full participatory role in the church's structures. Jesuit Fr. Arturo ...

Father Arturo Sosa, SJ, superior general of the Society of Jesus, reflected on the first Jesuit pope in a press conference on Thursday, saying Francis “did not seek to please everyone” or to measure ...

Understanding the adage that personnel is policy, Pope Francis has been planting Marxists throughout the Church, including at the top of the troubled religious order to which he belongs. In 2016, the ...