The Portal to Jesuit Studies

J. Matthew Ashley, Kevin Burke, SJ, and Rodolfo Cardenal, SJ, have collaborated to edit A Grammar of Justice: The Legacy of Ignacio Ellacuría. The book, published through Orbis, is available on the 25th anniversary of the murder of Ellacuría and other Jesuits at the University of Central America in San Salvador. The editors include two works by Ellacuría (including his essay, “Utopia and Propheticism from Latin America”) and several scholarly contributions.

• Update: The Journal of Jesuit Studies has reviewed A Grammar of Justice (Volume 3, Issue 4).

Loyola University Chicago holds “Crossings and Dwellings,” a research conference to commemorate the bicentennial of the Restoration of the Society of Jesus and the centennial of women’s education at Loyola University-Mundelein College. The program, organized by Stephen Schloesser, SJ, and Kyle Roberts, features an opening address by Carol Coburn of Avila University, remarks by John McGreevy of the University of Notre Dame, and a closing address by Kathleen Sprows Cummings also of Notre Dame. In all, the conference features presentations by more than 30 scholars.

Harvard University Press has published Liam Matthew Brockey’s The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia. Brockey examines how Palmeiro inspected missionary work in India following a controversy there surrounding the tactics employed by fellow Jesuit Roberto de Nobili. The publisher notes that this volume “tells the story of a theologian whose extraordinary travels bore witness to the fruitful contact—and violent collision—of East and West in the early modern era.”

• Update: The Journal of Jesuit Studies has reviewed The Visitor (Volume 2, Issue 2).