Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
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| 2022 | Four Jesuit churches existed in London, with three additional places of worship in England and two in Scotland. |
| January 2022 | The Jesuit society had 14,439 total members: 10,432 priests, 837 brothers, 2,587 scholastics, and 583 novices, representing a 59% decline since 1965. |
| 2020 | Completion of a major reorganization of Jesuit provinces in the United States, consolidating from a previous peak of ten provinces to four provinces: USA East, USA Central and Southern, USA Midwest, and USA West. |
| 2019 | Twenty-eight novices took first vows in the Jesuits in the United States and Haiti. |
| September 2019 | Superior General Arturo Sosa estimated that by 2034, the number of Jesuits would decrease to about 10,000, with a shift away from Europe towards Latin America, Africa, and India. |
| February 2019 | Arturo Sosa presented the results of a 16-month discernment process, outlining four priorities for Jesuit ministries for the next ten years, which were approved by Pope Francis. |
| 2016 | According to Patrick Reilly of the National Catholic Register, there was no 'Pope Francis effect' in counteracting the fall of vocations among the Jesuits. |
| October 14 2016 | Arturo Sosa, a Venezuelan, was elected as the thirty-first superior general during the 36th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus. |
| 2013 | Jesuit cardinal Jorge Bergoglio became Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope. |
| August 31 2013 | Agostino Paravicini Bagliani publishes an article in L'Osservatore Romano detailing the historical development of papal white garments, challenging the common attribution of white garments to Pope Pius V. |
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