In October, the major umbrella organization for male religious orders -- including the Jesuits, the Catholic church's largest male order with almost 17,000 priests and brothers -- urged the groups to ...

The Vatican took the unusual step on Monday of announcing that it had named judges to decide the fate of a famous ex-Jesuit ...

The Vatican took the unusual step on Monday of announcing it had named judges to decide the fate of a famous ex-Jesuit artist, whose mosaics decorate basilicas around the world and who was accused by ...

Pedro Arrupe, the late, former worldwide leader of the Jesuit religious order and a candidate for Catholic sainthood, acknowledged in records produced as part of a New Orleans court case that he was ...