Ignatius Loyola to Pope Francis: The Jesuits in History

by Michael J. Walsh

The Jesuits, or the Society of Jesus, to give the proper name, has been a controversial part of the Catholic Church since its inception, both to those inside and those on the outside. At one point, one Pope sought to suppress it entirely, but it survived, oddly enough, in the Tsarist Russia of Catherine the Great. And now it is more in the news than ever, since the election of the first Jesuit pope - Pope Francis. What does the Society stand for,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745980236
• ISBN13: 9780745980232
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Lion Hudson
• Length: 352 Pages