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Pope Francis Gives Another Revealing Interview to His Fellow JesuitsPope Francis, who belongs to the Jesuit order, periodically meets with Jesuit magazine editors to discuss the direction of the Church. These interviews are invariably newsworthy. In 2013, he made headlines after telling Jesuit editors that the “dogmatic and moral teachings of the Church are not all equivalent” and that “pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently.” He gave a similarly significant interview to Jesuit editors last month, telling them that the Church needs to reject “restorationism.”“The number of groups...

The general postulator of the Society of Jesus said he had begun compiling all of the writings of Jesuit Fr Pedro Arrupe and seeking eyewitnesses who can attest to the holiness of order’s late superior general. The massive task of compiling a list of 120 witnesses, especially those who personally knew Fr Arrupe, should “be finished in about a year,” Jesuit Fr Pascual Cebollada, the postulator, told the Catholic News Service. ... Pope Francis “gave several examples of Fr Arrupe as a person who helped us Jesuits rediscover our spirituality in the 1970s,” Fr Cebollada said. Despite the Pope’s admiration...

The M+G+R Foundation Divine Protection at Hiroshima or why out motto isIn God we trust and everyone else must prove himself firstPURPOSE The purpose of this document is to share certain dramatic events which occurred im Hiroshima that may help some see the importance of sincere prayer in order that Psalm 91(1) becomes a reality in one's life. INTRODUCTION We requested one of our frequent visitors to research the mostly ignored manifestation of the Divine protection for certain individuals in Hiroshima when the A-bomb was dropped there by the allied forces. We do not need any proof to live what...