American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global

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How American Jesuits helped forge modern Catholicism around the world At the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed fated for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in 1773 by one pope, they were restored in 1814 by another, but with only six hundred aged members. Yet a century later, the Jesuits numbered seventeen thousand men an

John T. McGreevy is dean of the College of Arts and Letters and professor of history at the University of Notre Dame.

"This book is a sensational eye-opener, even for me, a Jesuit for the past forty-six years.... [An] extraordinarily rewarding work."-James F. Keenan, Commonweal "Deeply learned and delightfully readable."-Catherine O'Donnell, Los Angeles Review of Books "Stunning in the breadth and depth of its international contextualization."-Robert Emmett Curran, America "McGreevy explains the twists and turns of [Jesuit] history and dissolves the apparent paradoxes."-Patrick Allitt, Weekly Standard