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The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano has held up British Jesuits as an example of an effective commitment to combating climate change, which it calls “the most urgent challenge” we face.

LGBT promoter Father James Martin SJ has chosen a painting from a collection titled Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision to illustrate the scene of Jesus driving money changers from the temple.

LGBT promoter Father James Martin has questioned whether the biblical condemnation of homosexual behavior may be mistaken, referencing the example of slavery.

A number of Catholic bishops have added their voices to criticism of Jesuit Father James Martin, America’s most prominent pro-LGBT priest.

Students at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, are protesting the university president’s recent decision to cancel the school’s annual “drag show.” The Jesuit university has been hosting the event showcasing local drag performers since 2013.

A Jesuit priest brought a group of children who had just received their first Communion to the hospital to bless a gay man who had announced his intention to marry his partner and then commit suicide.

The superior general of the Jesuits said this week that no country has the right to turn away migrants, claiming the land belongs to everyone.

The Jesuit flagship publication in the United States, America magazine, has published an article defending Marxism and comparing the murderous, atheist ideology to Christianity.

The Jesuits of Canada is bestowing its annual “Magis” award this spring on Father Thomas Rosica, a priest and Vatican spokesman recently found to have engaged in serial plagiarism over the past 25 years.

A prominent American Jesuit priest said Friday he believes that an upcoming Vatican summit on clerical sex abuse “will fail” because it will not deliver what abuse survivors, the media, and the faithful are hoping for.

Pope Francis urged his brother Jesuits on Monday to keep growing and maturing in the faith, without allowing a worldly spirit to infect their community.

Pope Francis greeted his fellow Jesuits in the Vatican Thursday, urging them to avoid simple formulations and to learn to harmonize contradictions.

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Pope Francis met with Jesuit Father Jon Sobrino this week, the liberation theologian who had previously been censured by the Vatican for the theological “imprecisions and errors” in his writings, and thanked him for his “witness.”

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput told the synod of bishops in Rome Thursday that in the Catholic tradition there is no such thing as an “LGBTQ Catholic,” as if people’s sexual proclivities determine their identity as persons.

The Editors of America Magazine have withdrawn their endorsement of Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, arguing that even if he is innocent “this nomination is no longer in the best interests of the country.”

China’s state newspaper Global Times published a feature Wednesday heralding in a new era in relations between Beijing and the Vatican, suggesting that Pope Francis, as a Jesuit who “believes he has a good understanding of Marxists,” presents a golden opportunity for China to coopt Catholicism in the country.

Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro has voiced strong opposition to a proposed law that would mandate placing crucifixes in all public buildings, rejecting the bill as the politicization of a religious symbol.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan has written a searing response to Jesuit Father Thomas Reese for his bizarre proposal that the pro-life movement abandon its efforts to outlaw or restrict abortion to focus exclusively on assisting women in need.

The Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Worcester has condemned the eroticized theological writings of a Holy Cross professor who has suggested that Jesus Christ was a “drag king” with “queer desires.”

A law professor from Fordham University argues that African Americans should be allowed to present their blackness as a recognized legal disability to better combat inequalities and prejudice.

In a new statement released to coincide with the March for Life against legalized abortion, the U.S. Jesuits have embraced the argument of moral equivalency between abortion and other social ills.

Leaders of LGBT organizations at Jesuit Georgetown have denounced the pro-marriage group “Love Saxa” as homophobic, calling on the university to strip the group of funding and to deny it access to campus facility benefits.

Georgetown University in Washington, DC held an official “Respect Life” forum, the first for the Jesuit university that last year saw Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards receive a standing ovation from students.

In a new op-ed, Vatican Cardinal Joseph Sarah criticizes a Jesuit priest involved in pro-LGBT outreach for his failure to preach the Church’s message on the immorality of homosexual relations.

The first Jesuit Pope in history, Francis has named Archbishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer S.J. as head of the Vatican’s powerful doctrinal office (CDF), making him the first member of the Jesuit order to ever occupy the post.

The head of the Jesuit order, Father Arturo Sosa, has denied the existence of the devil as a real being, suggesting rather that humans invented Satan as a “symbolic” figure to represent evil.

In one of the most convoluted exercises in sophistry to ever grace the pages of the Jesuit flagship publication America magazine—a strikingly high bar—President Donald Trump has been accused of waging a war against unborn babies because of his opposition to the Paris climate accord.

Jesuit priests and Georgetown University repented for their involvement in the slave trade with a special “Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition and Hope” on Tuesday at the school.

In a strangely convoluted interview, the new Superior General of the Jesuit order suggested that different interpretations of the Bible can all be valid since no one really knows what Jesus said anyway.

The Jesuit editor of the progressive America magazine has thrown his support behind the fabricated story of a war between Pope Francis and Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s chief strategist.

In a period when Pope Francis is being challenged by a group of cardinals for alleged ambiguities in his teaching, the pontiff has called for openness to debate and pushback in the Church.

Pope Francis sent a telegram to Cuban President Raúl Castro Saturday, expressing his “sentiments of sorrow” over the death of Raúl’s brother, former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

Officials at a Jesuit-run high school in Phoenix have banned a school alumnus from commenting on their Facebook page after he dared criticize Tim Kaine’s public support for abortion.

Planned Parenthood chief Cecile Richards was greeted with a standing ovation at “Catholic” Georgetown University Wednesday, where she had been invited to speak about reproductive rights to some 400 students at the Lohrfink Auditorium.

Without even allowing grass to grow over the grave of the great Catholic Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, who died on February 13, the Jesuit flagship America Magazine has devoted a front-page article to trashing the justice’s legal theory in an effort