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Entire [here published]
text
of
the
homily
of
Fr.
Arturo
Sosa,
SJ,
on
the
occasion
of
celebrating
and
giving
thanks
for
his
election
as
Superior
General
of
the
Society
of
Jesus.
Roma,
Chiesa
del
Gesù,
15/10/2016
Dearest
Brothers,
A
few
days
ago,
in
this
very
Church
of
the
Gesù,
where
the
remains
of
St.
Ignatius
and
Pedro
Arrupe
are
laid
to
rest,
Fr.
Bruno
Cadorè
invited
us
to
have
the
audacity
of
the
improbable
as
the
distinctive
stance
of
persons
of
faith,
who
seek
to
bear
witness
to
such
faith
in
the
complex
reality
of
human
life.
He
invited
us
to
leave
behind
our
fear
and
to
row
out
into
the
deep,
as
a
kind
of
attitude
for
being
at
once
creative
and
faithful
during
the
General
Congregation.
Certainly,
the
audacity
that
we
need
in
order
to
be
servants
of
the
mission
of
Christ
Jesus
can
flow
only
from
faith.
For
this
reason,
our
gaze
is
directed
first
of
all
to
God,
since
you
have
only
one
Father,
and
He
is
in
heaven
,
as
the
passage
from
the
Gospel
which
we
have
just
heard
reminds
us.
And
as
the
Formula
of
the
Institute
reminds
us
at
paragraph
no
.1:
“Let
(the
Jesuit)
have
before
his
eyes,
as
long
as
he
lives,
before
anything
else,
God,
and
then
the
form
of
this
his
Institute.”
In
fact,
it
is
the
whole
heart
that
we
wish
to
have
in
tune
with
the
Merciful
Father,
the
God
that
is
only
Love,
our
Principle
and
Foundation
–
the
heart
of
each
of
us
and
also
the
heart
of
the
body
of
the
Society.
If
our
faith
is
like
that
of
Mary,
Jesus’
own
mother
and
the
Mother
of
the
Society
of
Jesus,
our
audacity
can
go
even
further
and
seek
not
only
the
improbable,
but
the
impossible,
because
nothing
is
impossible
for
God
,
as
the
Archangel
Gabriel
proclaims
in
the
scene
of
the
Annunciation
(Luke
1:37).
It
is
the
same
faith
held
by
St.
Teresa
of
Avila,
or
St.
Teresa
of
Jesus,
whose
memorial
we
celebrate
today.
She
too,
without
fear,
entrusted
herself
to
the
Lord
in
order
to
undertake
the
improbable
and
the
impossible.
Let
us
ask,
therefore,
for
this
faith
from
the
Lord,
so
that
we,
as
the
Society
of
Jesus,
can
also
make
our
own
the
words
of
Mary
in
her
response
to
the
extraordinary
call
that
she
received:
“Behold
the
servant
of
the
Lord:
Be
it
done
to
me
according
to
your
word.”
Like
Ignatius
and
the
First
Companions,
like
so
many
Jesuit
brothers
who
have
fought
and
who
fight
today
under
the
banner
of
the
cross,
in
service
only
to
the
Lord
and
to
his
Church,
we
too
desire
to
contribute
to
that
which
today
seems
impossible:
a
humanity
reconciled
in
justice,
that
dwells
peacefully
in
a
well
-‐
cared
-‐
for
common
home,
where
there
is
a
place
for
all,
since
we
recognize
each
other
as
brothers
and
sisters,
as
sons
and
daughters
of
the
same
and
only
Father.
For
this
reason,
we
reaffirm
even
today
the
conviction
of
Ignatius
as
he
wrote
the
Constitutions:
“
Since
the
Society
of
Jesus
was
not
instituted
by
human
means,
it
is
not
through
them
that
it
can
be
preserved
and
increased,
but
with
the
all
-‐
powerful
hand
of
Christ,
our
God
and
Lord
;
in
Him
alone
must
our
hope
be
placed.”
With
our
hope
placed
in
God
and
in
God
alone
the
General
Congregation
will
proceed
with
its
deliberations
and
it
will
contribute
to
its
duty
to
preserve
and
grow
this
whole
body
(
Const.
719).
The
preservation
and
growth
of
the
body
of
the
Society
is
tightly
bound
to
the
depth
o
f
the
spiritual
life
of
each
of
its
members
and
of
the
communities
in
which
we
share
life
and
mission
with
our
companions.
At
the
same
time,
it
is
necessary
to
have
an
extraordinary
intellectual
depth
in
order
to
think
creatively
about
the
ways
in
which
our
service
to
the
mission
of
Christ
Jesus
can
be
more
effective,
in
the
creative
tension
of
the
Ignatian
magis.
To
think
about
ways
of
deeply
understanding
the
unique
moment
of
human
history
in
which
we
are
living,
and
to
contribute
to
the
search
f
or
alternatives
for
overcoming
poverty,
inequality,
and
oppression.
To
think
so
that
we
never
cease
posing
pertinent
theological
questions,
and
so
that
we
continue
to
deepen
our
understanding
of
the
faith
that
we
ask
the
Lord
to
increase
in
ourselves.
We
are
not
alone.
As
companions
of
Jesus
we
too
want
to
follow
the
journey
of
the
incarnation,
to
identify
ourselves
with
the
human
beings
that
suffer
the
consequences
of
injustice.
The
Society
of
Jesus
can
develop
only
in
collaboration
with
others,
only
if
it
becomes
the
least
Society
that
collaborates.
Let
us
be
attentive
to
the
linguistic
pitfalls
here.
We
want
to
increase
collaboration,
not
just
to
seek
that
others
collaborate
with
us,
with
our
own
works,
only
because
we
don’t
want
to
lose
the
prestige
o
f
the
position
of
who
has
the
last
word.
We
want
to
collaborate
generously
with
others,
inside
and
outside
of
the
Church,
in
the
awareness,
which
comes
from
the
experience
of
God,
of
being
called
to
the
mission
of
Christ
Jesus,
which
doesn’t
belong
to
us
exclusively,
but
whom
we
share
with
so
many
men
and
women
who
are
consecrated
to
the
service
of
others.
In
the
journey
of
collaboration,
with
the
grace
of
God,
we
will
also
find
new
companions
to
increase
the
number,
always
much
too
small
no
matter
how
great,
of
collaborators
who,
along
with
the
others,
are
invited
to
be
part
of
this
body.
There
is
hardly
any
doubt
about
the
need
to
increase
our
prayer
and
our
work
for
vocations
to
the
Society,
and
to
continue
the
complex
commitment
to
provide
the
formation
that
makes
of
them
true
Jesuits,
members
of
this
multicultural
body
that
is
called
to
testify
to
the
richness
of
interculturalism
as
the
face
of
humanity,
created
in
the
image
and
likeness
of
God.
Let
us,
therefore
,
today
make
our
own
the
words
of
the
Apostle
Paul:
may
the
God
of
patience
and
consolation
grant
you
to
be
like
-‐
minded
one
toward
the
other
according
to
the
example
of
Christ
Jesus,
so
that
you
may
give
glory
to
the
God
and
Father
of
Our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
with
one
heart
and
one
voice.
(Rm.
15
:5)
In
the
Church
of
the
Gesù
in
R
As reported by the Jesuit General Convocation 36 site:
The afternoon of Friday, October 14, after the election, the
congregation members were able to take a well deserved break. They met
this morning at the Gesù Church for the second time in two weeks. They
had the joy to be around their new Superior General, Father Arturo Sosa,
who therefore had the opportunity, in his homily, to offer for the
first time a spiritual message inspired by the Holy Scripture.
The first reading was taken from the wisdom tradition, the book of
Sirach. It emphasized how the search for wisdom provides the
intelligence and opens the way for just decisions. Whoever has this
wisdom coming from the Lord will spread it to all nations. Psalm 88
reminded that the Lord is pleased by the fidelity of his servant. An
excerpt from the letter of St. Paul to the Christians of Rome exhorted
them to avoid causing scandal and division, but mainly to show
perseverance and hope by doing everything for the good of their
neighbour. In the Gospel of St. Mark, Jesus invited his disciples to be
watchful at all times.
In his homily, the new Superior General first recalled that a few
days earlier, at the opening of the General Congregation, the Master of
the Dominicans had invited the Jesuits to the audacity of the
improbable, something that characterizes a person of faith. Fr. Sosa was
even more daring: referring to Mary, he opened the way to the audacity
not only of the ‘improbable’ but also of the ‘impossible’, because
“Nothing is impossible for God”, had said the angel Gabriel.
The General added: “We ask the Lord for that kind of faith, because
we can make it our own, as Society of Jesus, the faith expressed in
Mary’s words in response to receiving the extraordinary appeal: ‘Behold
the handmaid of the Lord, all be done according to thy words.’ As
Ignatius and his first companions, like so many brothers who fought and
lived under the banner of the cross in the service of the Lord and his
Church, we also want to contribute to what seems impossible today: a
humanity reconciled in justice, living in peace in a common house well
kept, where there is room for everyone because we recognize that we are
siblings, son and daughters of the same and unique Father.”
Father General then stressed the fact that we are not alone to
accomplish this task; we do it in collaboration. Not only that of
collaborators in our works, but by making ourselves collaborators of
people, inside and outside of the Church, who are involved in a mission
that is not ours exclusively, a mission we share with many men and women
dedicated to the service of others.
You can read the original homily in Italian by clicking here.
Official English translation here.
Arturo Marcelino Sosa Abascal was born in Caracas ( Venezuela ) on 12 November 1948. It is delegated to the Curia and the houses and interprovincial works of the Society of Jesus in Rome , and is a director of General Father . He holds a degree in philosophy from the Catholic University Andres Bello (1972) and a doctorate in political science from the Central University of Venezuela . In the General Congregation 35 held in 2008 he was chosen by the Father General Adolfo Nicolás as Director General.
And in 2014 he joined the Curia of the Society of Jesus in Rome as a
delegate to the Curia and the houses and interprovincial works of the
Society of Jesus in Rome. It is institutions that depend directly on the Superior General of the Jesuits and for appointing a delegate. These include, in addition to the General Curia, the Pontifical Gregorian University , the Pontifical Biblical Institute , the Pontifical Oriental Institute , the Vatican Observatory , as well as various International and Residential Schools. Between 1996 and 2004 was Provincial Superior of the Jesuits in Venezuela. He was previously coordinator of the social apostolate in this country and director of Gumilla Center , a research and social action of the Jesuits in Venezuela. Along with that I was responsible for the magazine SIC, which won under his leadership in 1979 National Journalism Award. Father Arturo Sosa has a long history of dedication to teaching and research. He has played several positions and functions in the university. He has been professor and member of the Foundation Board of the Andres Bello Catholic University and Rector of the Catholic University of Tachira .
Especially he pursued research and teaching in the field of political
science, in different centers and institutions, as the Chair of
Contemporary Political Theory and the Department of Social Change in
Venezuela at the School of Social Sciences.
He has been a researcher at the Institute of Political Studies, Faculty
of Political Science at the Central University of Venezuela and, at the
same university, professor at the School of Political Studies at the
Department of History of the political ideas of Venezuela.
In 2004 he was invited by the Center for Latin American Studies at
Georgetown University in the United States was professor and professor
of the Department of Venezuelan Political Thought of the Catholic
University of Tachira. He has published several works, especially on Venezuelan history and politics.
Sosa Abascal, Arturo (1999). "From the liberal tyranny to democracy threatened" .In Bernal, Josefina. The reason and passion.Around Manuel Caballero.Caracas: Fondo Editorial Humanities, Central University of Venezuela.p.100. ISBN980-00-1507-8.Retrieved on October 14, 2016.
'Father' Arturo Sosa Abascal, of the Venezuelan Province, elected as 31st Superior
General of the Jesuit Order. with 50% + 1 vote (107 votes). Succeeds Adolfo Nichols who resigned October 3, 2006, who succeeded Peter Kolvenbach who resigned in 2008 and who is still alive making 3 living former and one current 'Black' Popes; plus the current Pope Francis ad his predecessor Benedict XVI who remains alive making 2 current and former White Popes all together making 5 current and former Black and White Popes. Popes traditionally die in office. This situation of emeritus Popes is apparently unprecedented.
The 36th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus has elected
Father Arturo Sosa Abascal, of the Venezuelan Province, Superior
General.
Father Arturo Sosa was born in Caracas, Venezuela, on November 12,
1948. He is the Delegate of the General for the Interprovincial Houses
and Works of the Society of Jesus in Rome. He is a doctor in political
sciences from the Universidad Central de Venezuela and has a license in
philosophy from the Andrés Bello Catholic University. Father Arturo Sosa
speaks Spanish, Italian, English and understands French.
Alan Fogarty, S.J., the president of the Gregorian University Foundation, has Father Sosa as his superior. This morning he told America that Father Sosa is “man
of great faith, a real leader, because he has a vision coming from a
strong sense of the history of the Society. He is a great listener, a
man of patience, and believes deeply in discernment, in the tradition of
St. Ignatius of Loyola.”
“He is very friendly, very easy to talk to, and is sensitive, and has a deep concern for others. He is a true companion of Jesus,” Father Fogarty added.
During the 35th General Congregation, in 2008, Father Sosa was chosen
Counselor General by then-Superior General Father Adolfo Nicolás. In
2014, he joined the curia of the Society of Jesus, in Rome, as delegate
for the Society’s Interprovincial Houses and Works. These include the
Pontifical Gregorian University, the Pontifical Biblical Institute, the
Pontifical Oriental Institute and the Vatican Observatory.
According to the announcement by General Congregation, Father Sosa
served as Provincial Superior of the Jesuits in Venezuela between 1996
and 2004. Before that, he was coordinator of the social apostolate in
that country and director of Centro Gumilla, a center for research and
social action by the Jesuits in Venezuela.
Father Sosa has had a long career in teaching and research. He was a
professor and a member of the Foundation Council of the Andrés Bello
Catholic University and for 10 years he was the rector of the Catholic
University in Táchira. He did most of his research and teaching in
political science and published several works about the history and
politics of Venezuela.
The 36th General Congregation has elected Father Arturo Sosa Abascal, of the Jesuit Province of Venezuela as Superior General.
Father Sosa was born in Caracas, Venezuela on 12 November
1948. Until his election, Father Sosa has been Delegate for
Interprovincial Houses of the Society in Rome, as well as serving on the
General Council as a Counsellor. He obtained a licentiate in philosophy
from l’Università Cattolica Andrés Bello in 1972. He later obtained a
doctorate in Political Science from l’Università Centrale del Venezuela,
in 1990. He speaks Spanish, Italian, English, and understands French.
In 2008, during General Congregation 35, Father General Adolfo
Nicolás appointed Father Arturo Sosa as General Counsellor, based in
Venezuela. In 2014, Father Sosa joined the General Curia community and
took on the role of Delegate for Interprovincial Roman Houses of the
Society of Jesus in Rome, which include: the Pontifical Gregorian
University, the Pontifical Biblical Institute, the Pontifical Oriental
Institute, the Vatican Observatory, Civiltà Cattolica, as well as
international Jesuit colleges in Rome.
Between 1996 and 2004, Father Sosa was provincial superior of the
Jesuits in Venezuela. Before that, he was the province coordinator for
the social apostolate, during which time he was also director of Gumilla
Social Centre, a centre for research and social action for the Jesuits
in Venezuela.
Father Arturo Sosa has dedicated his life to research and teaching.
He has held different positions in academia. He has been a professor and
member of the Council of the Andrés Bello Catholic Foundation and
Rector of the Catholic University of Tachira. He has pursued research
and teaching in the field of political science, in various centers and
institutions, as the Chair of Contemporary Political Theory and the
Department of Social Change in Venezuela at the Faculty of Social
Sciences.
In 2004, he was invited as a visiting professor by the Latin American
Studies Center at Georgetown University in the United States while he
was a professor in the Department of Venezuelan political thought of the
Catholic University of Tachira.
While Father Sosa election as superior general completes one of the
main tasks of GC 36, the group’s work is not over. Now the delegates
will tackle matters of mission, governance and the state of the Society.
Topics may range from the Society’s changing demographics to challenges
in worldwide ministries, to the Jesuit response to a rapidly changing
world, environmental concerns, poverty and violence.
Panaji: In Rome, a spiritual meeting is underway, as the Society of Jesus, a Catholic religious order founded by St Ignatius of Loyola, prepares to elect the Spaniard’s 30th successor — a new ‘Black Pope’. Representing 112 countries, 79 provinces and six continents, 215 members of the order have been involved in deep prayer and intense discussions at the 36th General Congregation (GC 36), held at the Jesuit Curia in Rome, and, on October 14, they will elect their new general.
India has the largest population of Jesuits in the world and there is strong feeling among the 3,000-odd Indian Jesuits that 476 years since its existence, the general may be one of their own. But, sources from inside the Jesuit Curia in Rome say that it could be a South American, considering that Christianity is more widespread and a bigger part of the local culture in Latin America than Asia.
The Catholic Church broke stereotypes by electing a non-European Pope, an Argentinian Jesuit — Jorge Bergoglio, in 2013, and by 4pm on Friday, the world will know if the Society of Jesus will take a similar plunge at its 36th General Congregation during which Jesuits will elect their new general, who is also called the Black Pope.
The election will take place after the delegates concelebrate the Eucharist at 7.30am in the Church of the Holy Spirit in Rome. The thirtieth and most recent Superior General is the Fr Adolfo Nicolás, who officially resigned on October 3, 2016.
What makes GC 36 special is that it's the first paper-less congregation. The Jesuits will digitally vote for their new general through a tablet.pppp
Despite TOI’s several attempts to break down the code of silence and secrecy about who could be the next general of the largest religious order of the Catholic Church, conversations with the Jesuits failed to produce any name. “There is no point in speculating. Every time we speculate who it could be, it never matches the one chosen with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The 215 delegates in Rome can elect any one of them or someone out there in the world who is a professed Jesuit priest, having taken his fourth vow to the ChurchThe possibilities for anyone to be elected is roughly about one in 15,000. So, we have to just wait with bated breath and restrained excitement, spending time in prayer,” says Fr Cedric Prakash, a Gujarat-based Jesuit, who is currently on a mission in Beirut, Lebanon, as the advocacy and communications officer of the Jesuit Refugee Service.
The GC 36, which officially began on October 2, is in the most exciting stage called ‘murmaratio’, where the focus is on electing a new leader, through a process of intense prayer and great confidentiality. “A new general will bring in new leadership and inspiration to respond to the challenges facing the society and will reformulate the mission of the Society of Jesus in a language that appeal to younger Jesuits,” says Fr Anthony da Silva, former provincial of the Goa province of the Society of Jesus, who is currently based at the Xavier Centre for Historical Research, Porvorim.
Da Silva, who hails from Moira, was in Rome in March 2008, when the Jesuits gathered for GC 35 and he recounts his experience. “A few names start to surface at the beginning of the congregation and the next days are spent in getting to know better the people behind these names by having a one-on-one conversations with each of them. We could sit down for a coffee or share the same dining table, or just take a walk, but we discuss their vision for the society and explore their leadership capabilities. There is no debate or political lobbying or propaganda. On the election day, which is October 14 this year, there is this powerful spiritual feeling that will drive the congregation to narrow down on a couple of names, after which, we vote,” he says.
“The biggest challenges the Jesuits face in South Asia are growing instances of intolerance, exploitation and injustices. At the global level, some of our challenges include engaging ourselves in works of restoration, responding to the environmental crisis gripping our planet and humanely handling the refugee crisis in many parts of the world,” said scholastic Anderson Fernandes, a Jesuit from Margao, who is currently pursuing his theological studies at Vidyajyoti College of Theology, New Delhi.
At
GC36 there are some new developments in light of the experience of the
last Congregations. For instance, the report on the State of the
Society will be ready before the start of the General Congregation in
order to allow for a more serene and reflected formulation. Also, the
previous work done by other commissions on various topics will be
considered part of the General Congregation. Finally, for the first
time six Jesuit Brothers will participate as electors with the right to
vote in the election of the General.
Regarding topics for the Congregation,
in the letter of convocation of the General Congregation, Fr. Nicolás
asked each Jesuit to reflect and discern the three most important calls
that the Lord makes to the Society today. It seems to me that gathering
together these calls could indicate some important themes for the
General Congregation.
I think we should also keep in mind the
call of the Holy Father to go to the frontiers and peripheries of the
world, issues connected with migrants and refugees, the Jubilee of
Mercy, the Synod on the family. It is important to recall that the
well-known decree 4 of GC 32 on the service of faith and the promotion
of justice was inspired as follow-up to the Synod on Justice in 1971-72.
Another big issue that I think should be
addressed is the demographic change in the Society. As it happens in
the universal Church, the number of young Jesuits grows especially in
Asia (47%) and Africa (20%), it remains more or less the same in Latin
America (12%), and continues to diminish in Europe (12%) and the United
States (9%). That means that 79% of young Jesuits is found in the
global South (Asia, Africa and Latin America) while only 21% is found in
the whole of Europe and the United States. The Society of the future,
and by that I mean in the next ten years, will show a different face.
Considering that key positions in many institutions – such as in the
Gregorian University – have been occupied by Jesuits from Europe and
North America, we must reflect on the consequences of this demographic
change so as not to find ourselves unprepared.
This post is a fragment of an interview
to Fr. Orlando Torres published at the last issue of the Gregorian
University publication, available in Italian
at http://www.unigre.it/sito/PUG_HG_03O820150936/web/LaGregoriana/48_03_36ma_congregazione_generale_it.pdf
General Congregations are the
ultimate governing body in the Society of Jesus, and here are some of
the more interesting facts about these gatherings, which began over 450
years ago:
1. The first General Congregation
took place in 1558, delayed for two years after St. Ignatius’ death by a
war between King Philip II of Spain and Pope Paul IV. Father Diego
Laynez was elected Superior General.
2. The fourth congregation in 1581 elected the youngest Jesuit general: 38-year-old Father Claudio Acquaviva.
3. Fr. Acquaviva served as Superior General for 34 years — the
longest term in Jesuit history — and presided over three congregations.
4. The sixth General Congregation made obligatory a daily hour of prayer and an annual eight-day retreat for all Jesuits.
5. Given the variety of cultures and circumstances in which Jesuits
have lived and worked, differing views have sometimes made for lively
debate on major and minor issues alike, from interreligious dialogue to
Jesuit formation to how long a cassock should be.
6. General Congregation 10 is the only one to have elected two
Superior Generals. Father Luigi Gottifredi was elected first, but he
died before the congregation concluded. The same group then elected
Father Goswin Nickel.
7. The 20th General Congregation (1820) was the first one held after
the Society’s restoration in 1814. Greatly concerned that the Society be
the same as before the suppression, it reinstated the decrees of all
past congregations.
8. The 31st congregation took place during and after Vatican Council
II and elected Father Pedro Arrupe as general. GC 31 dealt with Jesuit
life and work in greater detail than any previous meeting, legislating
changes and updating the theory and practice of poverty.
9. The Jesuit elected as Superior General need not be present at the congregation — but this would be very unusual.
10. When more than 200 Jesuits arrive for General Congregation 36 in
Rome in October 2016, there won’t be any confusion about who sits where.
It’s decided for them — seating is alphabetical!
Adapted from an article by Jesuit Father John Padberg, a historian
and the former longtime director of the Institute of Jesuit Sources.
This post has been originally published by the JCU conference website
at http://jesuits.org/news-detail?tn=news-20141203032106
October 3, 2016- the start of the 36th Jesuit General Convocation to replace Adolfo Nichols,
Jesuit Superior General/'Black' Pope (2008-1016) who is still alive,
along with his predecessor Peter Kolvenbach (1983-2008),
plus the current 'White' Pope Francis's predecessor Benedict XVI (2005-20013)
A
child on his/her mother’s back (or hands) does not worry about the
journey, so says an African proverb. The child feels secure, cared for,
protected and loved by the mother. When around mid-morning of Monday, 3
October 2016, Fr. General Adolfo Nicolás tendered his resignation to
General Congregation (GC) 36, there was certainly no doubt that that was
a “matter of greater moment!” He did it with so much graciousness,
calm, peace and interior freedom—and, I should add, with joy! Shortly
before noon, GC 36 accepted the resignation of the 30th Superior General
of the Society of Jesus on the Feast day of the 3rd Superior General of
the Society, St. Francis Borgia. As Fr. Nicolás walked back into the
Aula, the standing ovation was prolonged and deafening! A rare
historical event of enormous importance had just taken place before our
very eyes! Different emotions welled up. Somewhat strangely, I felt like
a newly bereaved orphan—not only “orphaned” as an individual, but it
seemed as though the entire Society of Jesus had just lost a good,
caring and beloved parent! Indeed, the Society had just “lost” her
General, her spiritual servant-leader. But, as has been true from the
time of the First Superior General of the Society, Ignatius of Loyola,
the Society continues to remain in God’s providential hands.
God’s hands have always guided the Society since the 16th century.
Our ‘ancestors” in the Society, though dead, are still, in some sense,
an integral part of the One Apostolic Body of the Society. This was
powerfully ritualized towards the end of the opening Eucharistic
celebration on Sunday, 2 October, in the Church of the Gesù. After
Communion, Fr. General Nicolás gave a vote of thanks to Fr. Bruno
Cadoré, the Master General of the Dominicans who presided and preached.
Afterwards, Fr. Nicolas led the six Presidents of the various Jesuit
Conferences to the Chest of Relics of Jesuit Saints and Blessed. There
they said a series of prayers, read by each president in his native
language, with the opening and concluding prayer by Fr. General. For me,
this was a very moving experience, symbolizing the unity and continuity
of the living Jesuits with our Jesuit companions—ancestors—who have
gone before us to their eternal reward.
Beginning yesterday afternoon, and continuing all day today, we have
been meeting in small groups. There we share our Jesuit vocation stories
and the various ministries through which we have been engaged in the
service of the Lord and the Church. We also discuss some of the current
state of affairs in the universal Society. We are getting to know one
another gradually. Conversations over tea and meals are enlightening.
These are only the initial days of the Congregation. We have begun well.
As we journey along in the coming weeks, we abandon ourselves in the
hands of God.
Chuks Afiawari, S.J.
They speak of "God" - perhaps unwittingly whether they are referring to God the Creator, or rather the God of this eart: Lucifer:
ROME (CNS) -- The general congregation to elect a new superior
general for the Jesuits will begin with a Mass the evening of Oct. 2,
2016, the order announced.
Last May, Father Adolfo Nicolas, the current Jesuit superior, announced his intention to resign in late 2016 after he turns 80.
Announcing
the exact date for the meeting, Father Nicolas said, "It is
providential that we, as a society, are beginning this journey" toward
the congregation and election at the beginning of the Year of
Consecrated Life.
In his letter for the year, Father Nicolas said
Dec. 9, "Pope Francis expresses his hopes that religious such as
ourselves might rediscover the joy of consecrated life, recover our
prophetic witness that 'wakes up the world,' truly become 'experts in
communion,' and go 'out of ourselves to the existential peripheries.'"
The
pope, he said, "asks that all religious discern 'what it is that God
and people today are asking of them.' This is precisely the kind of deep
discernment we as a society are called to make."
The heads of
Jesuit provinces around the world and other superiors will schedule and
prepare provincial congregation meetings, which must be held before July
31, 2015, Father Nicolas said in a letter to the almost 17,000 Jesuits
in the world.
Each provincial congregation of the Society of Jesus
will be asked to forward to the order's Rome headquarters their
response to the question: "What do we discern to be the three most
important calls that the Lord makes to the whole society today?"
He
urged all of the men to enter into a process of "profound and genuine
spiritual discernment" about the life and mission of the Jesuits in the
church and in the world today, keeping in mind Pope Francis' calls for
the renewal of the entire church.
Last May, Father Nicolas told
his Jesuit brothers, "I have reached the personal conviction that I
should take the needed steps toward submitting my resignation to a
general congregation," an idea he said he already discussed with Pope
Francis, with officials at the Jesuit headquarters and with the Jesuit
provincials.
Like the pope, the superior general of the Jesuits is
elected for life, although the Jesuit constitutions include provisions
for the superior general to resign. In 2008, Father Nicolas succeeded
Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, who resigned at age 79.
Reveals why so many Popes after 2008 with the resignations of Kolvenbach, Benedict 16 and now Adolpho Nichols... along with Francis S.J.'s prediction that his Papacy shall be short lived...
Interviewer- Pope Francis, after 24 months of becoming Pope you have conducted quite a successful PR campaign. You have had a few photo ops of you washing some people's feet. You have had a few media spot stories about a handful of Catholic Church officials getting less expensive apartments, You have shown tolerance by spotlighting homosexuality, quoted as "who am I to judge", as somehow the main human rights issue. Yet all the while you call for ramping up the pharmaceutic inquisition repression which is what fills the courts and prisons and destroys peoples' lives for non-crimes that you would lie by calling crimes. And you would deny God's gift of Medical Cannabis, so your Vatican run pharmaceutical corporations can continue to bilk the public upon such quackery as chemotherapy. You are really some piece of work.
Could you please explain the circumstances behind you becoming Pope?
Pope Francis- I was selected to be Pope Petro the Roman in early 2013 in order to attempt to place a new face upon the Roman Catholic Church. A face that people would not look beyond, as a PR project, for I am the PR Pope.
That was quite a scary time, starting with April 2012 when Farnese King Juan Carlos of Spain broke his hip, ultimately getting us to sped up the process. Catholics in Action came across some interesting telecommunications chatter that really perked their interest.
Remember the day that we selected to announce Benedict's retirement- February 11. That was the anniversary of Wlodimir Ledochowski becoming the Jesuit General in 1915: the figure who indisputably painted the Roman Catholic Church into a corner that it could not escape if his influence were to ever become widely known- as we could no longer claim that the counter reformation was something that ended in say 1648.
Wlodimir Ledochowski
And mere hours later, the Vatican dome is struck by lightening- twice.
But there is more, as these are unprecedented times for the church.
Do you remember 2008? That was when the Jesuit General Peter Kolvenbach resigned, which is unusual as the usual custom for such a figure is to die in office, as it is with the Pope. And Kolvenbach was replaced or rather supplemented with his successor Adolpho Nichols.
Since 2008, Two Black Popes.
And Since 2013, Two Living ex-Popes, one Black and one White:
Interviewer- Yes.
Pope Francis- Now, flash forward to 2013, when Benedict the 16th does the same.
And two living White Popes
Four Popes In Total
So thus, with me as Pope, we now have a grand total of 4 living Popes. 2 Jesuit 'Black' Popes. And 2 'White' Popes- all living at the same time. Unprecedented in the history of the Church. Four living Popes!
Interviewer- OK. When has that ever happened before? Popes usually die in office. We don't have "emeritus" Popes. What could have happened to bring that about?
Pope Francis- Since 2007 the release of damning information about the Church released upon the internet, through that infernal invention of "the Blog". And from source or sources that we have long had suspicions about. Its something that we have feared for quite some time, of someone stirring up things with the sort of writings that would never be published in the controlled press, as we have had various people working for us in the past of dubious loyalties: those with a sense of irony and talents to show us the threat that we would ultimately face.
So by 2008 came the decision to begin the process with Kolvenbach's retirement and supplementation with his successor Nichols.
And then as one can gather from Farnese King Juan Carlos breaking his hip, some stuff spilled upon the intranet telecommunications grid that really let the cat out of the bag, in early April 2012. As came up upon the 1st anniversary of that, enough of us in the Vatican began getting scared. So we initiated stage two of the process, with Benedict's resignation and replacement or rather supplement- me. Recall that we announced Benedict's impending resignation on February 11, 2013 - hours before the double lightening strikes upon St Peters later that evening. And we announced that Benedict's replacement would come by mid April. Yet we got the whole process sped up with my selection announced a month earlier , in mid March. THAT is unprecedented in Roman Catholic Church history.
So for a few months things seemed to settle down. The public was buying our PR Pope campaign hook line and sinker. And readership of that blog Continuing Counter Reformationplummeted some 40-50%, showing the masses that they could now relax as the Vatican now had some supposedly 'reformist' Pope.
Interviewer- Previous life? I thought that the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize re-incarnation.
Pope Francis- Please. There's a difference between what we tell the public and what we acknowledge ourselves. We are masters at deceiving the public. We suppressed the doctrine of reincarnation going back to the Council of Nicaea. We took books out of the bible. And we infiltrated everything, getting Christians and Protestants to blatantly misread the Bible, such as Hebrews 27 which states "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" - never-mind that a man or person is the sum of a body and a spirit. Yes, a man-person dies once. He/she is not resurrected in body with spirit as was Jesus. Rather the spirit goes on to a next life. The ancient Jews knew that. the modern day Jews like the modern day Christians are babylonian influenced more than they dare imagine.
Just look at Vladimir Putin and Wlodimir Ledochowski.Both born October 7. Putin born in 1952, exactly 14 years before the 100th anniversary of Ledochowski's 1866 birth. Look into their eyes. And recall what former U.S. Defense Secretary William Gates wrote about Putin- looking into the eyes of a stone cold killer.
Putin takes this as being a part of some great prophecy, of serving our lord then and now for advancing our church.
Interviewer- Our church?
Pope Francis- The great schism is really a charade. Both Rome and Moscow are its twin pillars.
The great wars that we orchestrated were all about suppressing dissent from the Church. Do you thin that the reversal of Roman Catholic demographics in Eastern Poland starting right after the supposed end of the counter reformation in 1648 were about the 'righteous' Eastern Orthodox Church 'liberating' the 'ukrainian' borderlands from the Polish 'overlords? We sold out united Poland. Poland had some loyal to Rome leaders. But ultimately, Poland was way too tolerant of religious heretics. While France brown-nosed Rome with its St. Bartholomew Day's Massacre, those infernal Polish szlachta explicitly rejected that. They thumbed their nose at us, with that Warsaw Confederation of 1573. Then they rejected our plan for Poland to merge with Russia. And they even objected to our 1596 creation, the Unite Church. Though we had some loyal leaders, the infernal Szlacta showed us that the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth ultimately could not serve as a sufficiently effective tool to expand Romish power eastwards. So first we subverted it.
We crafted the 'urkainian' borderlands people identity - after all 'ukrainiain' means borderlands in Russian -- as an evolution of the Kieven Rus identity so as to suppress the people there's original identity as the Eastern Poles.
And more then a century later we outright sacrificed it, via our Jesuit tools established in Russia and Prussia to partition it off the map.
And then when Poland emerged towards the end of that Great War (WW1) under the leadership of that too independent for our liking Joseph Pilsudski, and his alliance with East Polan leader Symon Petliura, we subverted that every which way we could.
We had reliably Papal loyal regiments from the Poznan area subvert the Pilsudski-Petlura drive to Kiev.
And we backed our puppet, the aptly named 'Roman' Dmowski and his reliably loyal Papist National Democrats, who subverted Pilsudski every which way they could.
We did it all to placate Moscow, which we shall ultimately take in its entirety.
What do you think that double headed eagle is really all about?
So, Putin is all excited about continuing his mission, and insists upon meeting with Pope Francis.
He already had an inkling of what was going on. For instance back in 2008 he offers to split Ukraine with Poland. But they refuse to take the bait.
And so it would appear, others. There were some in the Vatican that liked the idea of a revived Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. Not of course one independent of Rome, but rather a puppet creation, for the sake of a Romish agenda of a Unite Church combining Roman and Muscovite tendencies. And then there was this massive growth in groups on Facebook in latter 2013 promoting some form or another of such, including that of a group sponsored by the Polish government calling for Byelorussia to re-join Poland. As if something happened in late summer 2013 spurring all of this.
So Putin gets more energized.
He wants to know what Rome wants him to do.
So in November 2013, Putin visits the Vatican and has a 35 minute private conversation with me.
He was particularly concerned with the sudden emergence of the 'maiden' political movement in Ukraine with its massive protests against the Russian clientèle regime in Kiev. He is likewise intrigued by the juxtaposition of stories about German Chancellor Angela Merkel - who was by then speaking out publicly in favor of the protests in Kiev -- being spied upon by the U.S. NSA tapping her cell phone, along with those of various powerful families with Spain. He said that he felt like he was being set up.
I assure him not to worry, that we have a plan.
And that, in the event of a regime change in Kiev, that he should have Russia seize the Crimea, and perhaps portions of eastern Ukraine. But I warn him that going so far to seize the entire southern portion of the country to link up with that Russian outpost of the Trans Dniester Republic might provoke too much of a response as that would cut of Ukraine from the Black Sea. Russia has its well established since the days of the Czar Sevastopol navel station in western Crimea, with that peninsula perhaps the most Russian loyal part of Ukraine, which only received it as a gift from a drunken Khrushchev in 1954. So, seizing Crimea would be relatively safe, and would provide a goal of at least taking the western shore of the Azov Sea.
The following February, regime change comes to Kiev- Ukraine is now officially pro West. And Putin's Russia seizes the Crimea peninsula, stamping its attachment to Russia with a referendum, and starts a war or reconquest localized in the easternmost provinces of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, we in Rome begin doing what we have to do in order to continue the process.
Interviewer- What was that?
Pope Francis- We have the current Jesuit General Adolpho Nichols announce in May 2014 that he shall resigneffective in 2016, with the Jesuit Convocation #36 where they choose Nichol's successor.
Meanwhile, the previous Jesuit General Peter Kolvenbach remains alive.
So that shall make a total of Three living Black Popes, and two living White Popes, equaling Five in total.
The Two Current Popes - Nichols and Francis
Interviewer- So what's the relevance of that?
Pope Francis- Well it involves the process.
Interviewer- What process?
Pope Francis- What we have to do for victory.
Interviewer- For victory of what?
Pope Francis- For the victory of the Church of course. And for our lord.
Interviewer- Well, what is this process?
Pope Francis- Well, the process specifically is the ritual. You do understand that our church consists of many elaborate rituals including the taking of he holy eucharist: all of which are rituals of ancient magic passed down from millennium ago straight from Babylonian Church customs.
Interviewer- Babylonian church customs
Pope Francis- Yes, have you not noticed for instance our weird head garb? It dates from well before 330 AD, before Roman Catholicism adapted the veneer of Christianity. All of this ties into the uncertainty of whether I shall either resign from the papacy or die in office.
Interviewer- Why the uncertainty? Either you will resign or die in office but why don't you yet now which?
Pope Francis- Well I have to travel to the US. I will be speaking before the U.S. Congress. And I will be visiting your city of Philadelphia, city of brotherly love for world family day. I have some things that I have to do there. We shall see how things go this year and then I shall know if the number is Five or Six?
Interviewer- Five or Six, for what?
Pope Francis- Well it is because of the ritual that we shall soon undertake- namely that we are not yet sure if it requires five or six living Popes.
Peter Kovenbach; Adolpho Nichols; Nichol's successor; Benedict 16; and myself. That equals 5.
Plus 1 - my successor - equals 6. And right now we are at Four, until the 2016 Jesuit Convocation #36 selects Nichol's successor, bringing us to Five.
The open question being shall the ritual require 5 or 6 living Popes.
Interviewer- What ritual?
The ultimate satanic black mass, which comes in two versions. One with Five. The other with Six.
Interviewer- Satanic?!
Yeah, satanic. Have not you figured it out yet? The Roman Catholic Church IS satanic. Our rituals are satanic black magic, particularly the so called 'taking of the holy communion' where we eat Jesus. Think about it- why are we so bent upon the crucifix displaying a dead jesus- sort of like 'worshiping' a dead deer displayed upon the hood of one's automobile.
Interviewer- what is this ritual?
Pope Francis- Well it involves this. We gather together, the 5 or 6 of use. We assemble in the outline of either a pentagram or a hexagram. And I would rather end the description there as it's too disgusting to repeat in mixed company. Suffice to say it's rather vulgar and disgusting, and as you may guess involves perverted forms of sex. Why do you think that we talk about homosexuality so much? Why do we have such an emphasis in the name of compassion, even though its the drug war rather than sodomy statutes that clog the courts and fill the prisons. We are so full of sh*t with our pretense over human rights as a massive distraction from the massive economic exploitation of the general public. But it is what we have to do to placate our lord Lucifer.
Interviewer- Lucifer?
Pope Francis- Lucifer!
Who has appeared in so much of our art, and who made his mark in politics, and happens to be bi-sexual.
Come on now, we all know that Jesus as not a blond.
Communication of General Congregation 36 2014/08 TO THE WHOLE SOCIETY Dear Brothers, P .C. [Pax Christi] Several
years have passed since my election as Superior General of the Society
and I have recently reached the age of 78. Reflecting on the coming
years, I have reached the personal conviction that I should take the
needed steps towards submitting my resignation to a General
Congregation. After obtaining the initial approval of the Assistants ad providentiam and having informed his Holiness Pope Francis, I formally consulted the Assistants ad providentiam
and the Provincials, as our law requires (NC 362). The result of the
consultation is favorable towards the convening of a General
Congregation. After having
discussed the matter with my Council, through this letter I wish to
inform the whole Society that, towards the end of this year, I will
convoke the 36th General Congregation, to be held during the final
months of the year 2016. Therefore,
the meeting of Provincials originally scheduled for January 2015 in
Yogyakarta and convoked on 12 March of this year (Circular Letter
2014/03) is canceled. Let us ask Our Lady of the Way to place the Society with Her Son on this journey of discernment that we now begin. Fraternally yours in the Lord, Adolfo Nicolás, S.I. Superior General
born October 7, 1866 -- 26th Jesuit Superior General 'Black Pope' - Feb. 11, 1915 - Dec. 13, 1942: 'one of the two or three greatest heads of the Jesuit Order' ... 'an almost merciless disciplinarian,and maintained a stream of instructions flowing out to the whole Society about every detail of Jesuit life and Ignatian ideals'...' Ledochowski can be called the last of the great Roman Generals of the Jesuits.'
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GC36 there are some new developments in light of the experience of the
last Congregations. For instance, the report on the State of the
Society will be ready before the start of the General Congregation in
order to allow for a more serene and reflected formulation. Also, the
previous work done by other commissions on various topics will be
considered part of the General Congregation. Finally, for the first
time six Jesuit Brothers will participate as electors with the right to
vote in the election of the General.
