“Once I heard a Jesuit in the China Province speaking poetically about how Jesuits, following in the footsteps of a generation of giants, have a deep and mystical bond with China,” George ...

An illustration depicts Jesuit Father Matteo Ricci in traditional Chinese clothing. The 16th-century missionary to China is well known by the country's Catholics.

The Jesuits reformed the Western calendar. Then they attempted to do the same in China. Ask most Christians the date of the next Easter and they’re likely to Google it. Though highly associated ...

Hangzhou (Agenzia Fides) - China, the city of Hangzhou and the Chinese Catholic community have never forgotten Father Martino Martini. The great Jesuit missionary, appreciated by the emperors and ...

Fr. Jesús Folgado García, director of the documentary film "Diego de Pantoja, SJ: A Bridge Between China and the West," walks down a hallway at the Boston College Institute for Advanced Jesuit ...

The pope, who is a Jesuit, also provided advice to Jesuit clergy in China. “Show the way to God through the spiritual exercises and discernment,” Francis said in his message to Chinese Jesuits.

There are around 20-25 Jesuits in China, he said, saying most are professors who enjoy freedom of movement and do what they can to accompany the people around them, and to do “what is possible ...

The Jesuit missionaries who followed Ricci continued to present China’s monarchs with keyboard instruments—the Kangxi emperor even took the time to learn a few tunes on the harpsichord and ...

Thierry Meynard, a French Jesuit who is professor of philosophy at Sun Yat-Sen University in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, said Verbiest was following in China the policy pursued by ...