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Jesuit order - a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen; it is strongly committed to education and scholarship

monastic order, order - a group of person living under a religious rule; "the order of Saint Benedict"

Jesuit - a member of the Jesuit order

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ASTALOYSIUs' spokeswoman said: "We would urge anyone with any such allegations to get in touch with police." A spokesman for the Jesuit order insisted it takes claims of abuse seriously and employs a safeguarding officer.

Number of people coming to us about abuse-claim school is unprecedented. It's really struck a chord; FOUR MORE ALLEGE THEY WERE VICTIMS; More witnesses speak out as college scandal grows

In a question-and-answer session with members of the Jesuit order in Panama in January, the text of which was made public for the first time Feb.

Francis reveals he concelebrated Mass with Muller, Gutierrez

Mark Falvey and how the Jesuit order paid $16 million as settlement on complaints of sexual abuse against him.

Palace: Unfortunate that Gabriela can't tell reality from rebuke

Earlier this month, officials of the Jesuit order of the Catholic Church overseeing at least 40 US states released the names of more than 240 members accused of abuse dating back to the 1950s.

US Catholic Bishops Face Pressure Amid New Sex Assault Revelations

Cline explores how the Ignatian spirituality and spiritual exercises of the Jesuit order can play a role in promoting inter-religious understanding globally.

A World on Fire: Sharing the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises with Other Religions

He also is the first from South America, the first from the Jesuit order, the first to be elected after a papal resignation, (his immediate predecessor Benedict 16th resigned in 2012, citing poor health), and the first from outside Europe since the Syrian Gregory III, who reigned in the 8th century.

Pope faces acid test as he fights to rid church of sex pests

It was an apostolate viewed with suspicion not just by secular, but by religious authorities; many of these Jesuits, for example, would find their work leading them to seek a dispensation from Rome to either leave the clergy, or the Jesuit order.

Father Fritz the fighter

Besides, history says he is the first personage among the Jesuit Order founded by Ignatius Loyola in the 16th Century to bailout the then Universal Church after the Reformation, to be so elected Pope.

Bible review: Unique call by Pope Francis

1534-49), who approved the foundation of the Jesuit order in 1540.

The Church resurgent: Linda Wolk-Simon on the art of the Gesu, the Jesuits' mother church in Rome

How rare to see an event whose purpose was not political gain, but the quest of peace; Pope Francis's own Jesuit order was founded to defend the faith against what Catholics believed were Luther's "heretical" reforms.

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