Perhaps a revealing question is whether the church will continue the radical novelty Francis brought as a pope from a ...

Although estranged from his own religious order for more than two decades, Pope Francis reconciled immediately after his election and remained a committed Jesuit until his death.

Not only was he the first Jesuit pope, he was the first pope from South America—the first pope from the Americas, in fact—and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere. He was just the 11th ...

Sacramento’s Jesuit High School, an all-boys private Catholic school. Longtime Sacramento philanthropist Agnes Anderson donated her family home to the school after her death in 2018, and Jesuit ...

In front of a roaring crowd at Jesuit High School, Crater’s Tayvon Kitchen crushed the Oregon high school record and maybe flirted with a national time — in the 3,200-meter race on Friday at ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re was set to preside over Pope Francis’s funeral service at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City before burial at the Basilica Papale Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.

I was an undergrad at Boston College, a Jesuit school. The professor, a Jesuit priest, had just argued in favor of physician-assisted suicide, which is anathema to Catholic teachings. I wasn’t ...

Bay Area lawmakers are throwing their support behind a new state bill to tighten rent control, a proposal cheered by tenant advocates but met with fierce resistance from landlord groups across ...

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 ...

While not the first pope to be buried in the basilica, his decision is steeped in his personal piety and Jesuit values. His devotion to the basilica was expressed at key moments throughout his papacy.

Pope Francis was the first pontiff elected from the Society of Jesus - also known as the Jesuits. It's one of the most prominent religious orders in the Catholic Church, with approximately 15,000 ...

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 ...