When Ignatius Loyola gathered his nine companions together in the early months of 1539 to plan their future, it quickly became clear to them that the new religious order that was coming into being would be significantly different from previous foundations. Indeed, to the many sceptics in Rome at the time, the proposed Society of Jesus appeared to endanger the very basis of religious life itself…
In each and every society, certain groups of people are ‘marginalized’. By marginalization here we mean being disregarded, ostracized, harassed, disliked, persecuted, or generally looked down upon. Such people often include women and children, the poor, the disabled, people of different sexual orientation, ethnic minorities, religious minorities, refugees, among others. In short, the …