"To the Jesuits, Amerindian society was really shocking, " says Marie Coulombe, one of the park's guides.
The Jesuits in my high school were full of tips for good intellectual hygiene.
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The Jesuits are not only the largest religious order in the Church but also the most revolutionary.
In an interesting twist the Jesuits were expelled from all of the Americas in the mid-18th century.
The Jesuits were careful not to promote the Copernican system, still controversial in Europe after the condemnation of Galileo.
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If one thing defines the Jesuits, it is their reputation for rigorous intellectual discussion and their lack of dogmatism.
Cardinal Bergoglio is a Jesuit and the Jesuits were founded by St.
Throughout their history, the Jesuits have enjoyed a reputation for their intellectual acuity and have played a leading role in Catholic education.
Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, celebrated his first Mass.
The head of the Jesuits worldwide essentially was an anti-Semite himself, and it only got to the pope in his very last days.
These communities, inspired in part by the Jesuits and Liberation Theology, embodied a self-reliant form of development, divorced from the paternalism of the past.
In 1548, eight years after the creation of their organization, the Jesuits found the particular form of action that would become their trademark: education.
He was ordained by the Jesuits in 1969 and became co-archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1997, sole archbishop of that city one year later.
But the Jesuits managed to survive in Russia and Prussia, whose rulers refused to obey the papal bull which was eventually rescinded in 1814.
Through their almost five hundred years of history, the Jesuits have at times had difficult relations with the papacy, which saw them as rivals.
The Jesuits are the largest single order in the Catholic Church.
After school in Poland, Prince Sapieha was educated in trade by the Jesuits in Belgium, and in the tricks of it by the Jews of Antwerp.
In November 1989, the duly-elected president of El Salvador displayed a courageous, personal commitment to seeing justice served in connection with the tragic murders of the Jesuits.
The Jesuits led the Catholic vanguard into the New World, and millions of Americans have been educated at their high schools and such universities as Marquette and Georgetown.
The Jesuits also have a reputation for bold missionary activities.
It is worth remembering that it was a previous "Black Pope", Father Hans Kolvenbach, who first broke the tradition that the general of the Jesuits, just like the Pope, was a lifelong appointment.
So we have the first pope to be elected from the Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuits, who were founded by Ignatius of Loyola in the 16th century while Catholicism reeled from Protestant challenges.
Perhaps in the next few years, in the grand tradition of his own order, the Jesuits, Pope Francis will inspire a new generation of seminarians to go into the sciences before they take their Holy Orders.
The Jesuits, missionaries and educators, are trained to be expert communicators and it is significant that among the first people summoned to meet the new Pope at his hotel suite this morning was fellow Jesuit Father Lombardi - official Vatican spokesperson, head of Vatican Radio (run for many years by the Jesuits) and of the Vatican Press Office.
The spiritual mission helped doom the enclave's material prosperity, when the Jesuits' spreading influence finally prompted Japan to shutter itself from the world by the early 1640s. (The Dutch cut off trade from the other direction by seizing Malacca in 1641.) But over the next century the effort gave Macau a purpose, as a center of learning and a bridge to the Middle Kingdom.
Pope Francis was the head of the Argentine Jesuits during the country's brutal 1976-1983 military dictatorship, during which tens of thousands of suspected subversives were killed, including several Jesuits.
But Ignatius and the original Jesuits continued to have an open mind, giving themselves the freedom to evolve.
Though governed independently of church authorities or the order, Jesuits have been officially involved in the school since 1805, and the institution defines its identity in significant part through its religious heritage.
The first Latin American Pope - and the first from the fiercely independent order of Jesuits - the former archbishop of Buenos Aires chose the name of Francis after St Francis of Assisi, the 13th-Century Italian reformer, who spurned a life of luxury to live in poverty.
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