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Jesuit global education programming includes responses to poverty and displacement as stated themes of institutional work. Some modern publications allege that from its founding the Jesuit order sought global political influence and involvement in major historical events.
Open the caseSociety of Jesus5
- Official · The Society of Jesus maintains a global network of schools coordinated in part through bodies such as ICAJE.
- Documented · The Society of Jesus maintains a global presence through education, social justice, and related apostolic work.
- Documented · The Society of Jesus maintains archival materials and public historical narratives concerning Jesuits during World War Two.
- Official · The Society of Jesus publishes materials describing apostolic preferences that include walking with the excluded, journeying with youth, and caring for the common home.
- Documented · The Society of Jesus was restored in 1814 by Pope Pius VII as a counter to anti-clerical influences in Europe.
Georgetown University1
- Documented · Georgetown University’s Berkley Center has published work on challenges of Jesuit global education in relation to poverty and displacement.
Jesuit global education1
- Documented · Jesuit global education programming includes responses to poverty and displacement as stated themes of institutional work.
Jesuit Global Network of Schools1
- Official · A Jesuit Global Network of Schools has been formally organized and publicly launched by Jesuit institutions.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio1
- Documented · Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the only Jesuit in the conclave that elected him pope.
Macau1
- Documented · Jesuit procurators participated in extensive commercial and missionary networks centered on Macau in the seventeenth century.
Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat1
- Official · The Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat has publicized and supported the Jesuit Global Network of Schools.
Other7
- Documented · Applied research centers have published quantitative profiles of Jesuit membership and geographic distribution worldwide.
- Documented · Commentators have long attributed to the Jesuits unusual prowess as political operators and as educators of intellectual elites.
- Documented · Experts and clergy have publicly rejected claims that the Jesuit order engineered or controlled the election of Pope Francis.
- Official · Jesuit universities and formation programs explicitly frame education in terms of global citizenship and a universal mission.
- Official · Official Jesuit communications present the order’s school network as a coordinated international structure rather than solely local institutions.
- Official · Official Jesuit teaching distinguishes the vow of poverty from ordinary material destitution, noting members may still have education, food, and healthcare.
- Contested · Some modern publications allege that from its founding the Jesuit order sought global political influence and involvement in major historical events.