February 18, 2008   •   VOL. 46, NO. 4   •   Oakland, CA

JSTB lecture on Pedro Arrupe
 

By Voice staff

Mercy Sister Janet Ruffing will speak on “Pedro Arrupe, S.J.: Prophetic Refounder of the Society of Jesus,” on Feb. 19 at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley at 7 p.m. Sister Ruffing, a professor in the Graduate School of Religion at Fordham University, is the author of “Ignatian Mysticism of Service: Ignatius of Loyola and Pedro Arrupe” in “Mysticism and Social Transformation” which she edited (Syracuse University Press, 2001).

Sister Janet Ruffing, RSM

She earned her doctorate in Christian spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and has been on the Fordham faculty for the past 22 years.

Her lecture is part of JSTB’s series, “From Arrupe to Kolvenbach to Nicolas: Changing Leadership in the Society of Jesus.”

Father Arrupe was elected superior general of the Jesuits in 1965. He suffered a stroke in 1981 and, two years later, Pope John Paul II suspended the Jesuit constitutions and appointed a personal delegate to oversee the order until a new superior general was elected. In September 1983, Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach was elected superior general. Father Arrupe died in Rome on Feb. 5, 1991.

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