The Jesuits: Nearing the End
What happened to one of the most influential religious orders in Catholic history? Morrissey traces what he sees as a century of theological, cultural, and institutional change inside the Society of Jesus—and argues that those changes reshaped far more than the Jesuits themselves.
Inside the book
A sweeping argument about how the Jesuits changed.
Morrissey’s study ranges from modernism and Karl Rahner to Teilhard de Chardin, Pedro Arrupe, Jesuit formation, Catholic education, social justice, and the pontificate of Pope Francis. The book draws on hundreds of quotations and citations and more than 150 scholars to build its case.
Catholic Release presents these claims as Morrissey’s arguments and conclusions. The serial format gives readers time to engage them section by section rather than encountering nearly five hundred pages all at once.
Praise for the book
What readers and scholars are saying.
“Wide-ranging and deeply probing.”Peter Kwasniewski, Ph.D.
Author of Tradition & Sanity
“A must-read for Catholics.”Dr. Anne Hendershott
Professor of Sociology, Franciscan University of Steubenville
“A scholarly achievement and a delight to read.”Dr. Charles James
Professor of Philosophy, retired, St. Patrick’s Seminary
About the author
Stephen J. Morrissey
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