Jesuit Education

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Introduction The Jesuit mission from its very beginning has been oriented by a global vision. In the 16th century, Saint Ignatius and his diverse group of companions from the University of Paris became involved in the educational apostolate to aid students, “…to the knowledge and love of God and to the salvation of their souls." . The early Jesuits experienced how a profound a conversion of heart can occur when one’s love of God leads one to engage suffering and injustice. Furthermore, they understood that their call to be ‘men for others’ expanded beyond cultural, economic and national boundaries. In 1975, the 32nd General Congregation (GC 32) further elaborated on the mission of Jesuit education as "the service of the faith and the promotion of justice.” This proclamation challenged Jesuits and all who worked at their institutions to work on behalf of the poor and youth. A few years later, former Father General Pedro Arrupe recognized the transnational dimensions of the refugee issue and founded Jesuit Refugee Services (JRS) to coordinate the Society’s efforts on a global scale. Today JRS work to serve and educate refugees on 5 continents in over 50 countries. Jesuits began to coordinate some of their educational apostolates transnationally. In the 1970’s and 80’s Venezuela Fe y Alegría (Faith and Joy) rapidly developed from being an isolated network of Jesuit schools educating the rural poor to become an organization operating schools throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Throughout the second half of the 20th century financially well-off Jesuit provinces in Europe and the United States invested heavily in developing universities and high schools in Africa and Asia. While European and US universities educated t... ... middle of paper ... ...& sons, 1901), 240-241. See Mary Louise Gill and Pierre Pellegrin, A Companion to Ancient Philosophy (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006), 549-558. Thomas Massaro, S.J., “Globalization & Economic Justice,” in , 2005, 4, http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:8Q62pVwyaCAJ:usf.usfca.edu/lanecenter/pdf/Massaro_Globalization_USF.pdf+Thomas+Massaro,+%E2%80%9CJudging+the+Juggernaut:+Toward+an+Ethical+Evaluation+of+Globalization,%E2%80%9D+Blueprint+for+Social+Justice+56:1+(September+2002)+3.&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShxu7VWxlH6E-us8cKfMd5I6VPv7sEhOmd17HOtRSgSFInkhj0nT9384X6rgiz_1SL532ziII0JqOg10wcveSoqbLmSlVqS_MqwQJ7sNH3_Zutz19g1WgkvcSZ7YNJNnQQWPUv3&sig=AHIEtbSoPdbm7ToqxEmenQe27wWlNdXlGg. Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider, “Memory Unbound: The Holocaust and the Formation of Cosmopolitan Memory,” European Journal of Social Theory 5, no. 1 (February 1, 2002): 1.

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