16 March 2006
Others
According to this emeritus professor, the great erudites regarded the jesuits as 'the janissaries of the Pope'. All this was aggravated by a series of pamphlets, black legends...In Spain, Charles the Third expelled the Company influenced by the anti-Jesuit resentment of some of his ministers, and the Pope, blackmailed by the Bourbon courts, decreed their general extinction.
On 25 April, this cycle will be attended by Jean Lacourture, writer and journalist, who will give a lecture on 'Renovación de la Orden durante el siglo XX'; on 23 May, Pedro Miguel Lamet, writer, poet and journalist, will lecture on the 'Perfil humano y gesta apostólica de Francisco de Javier'; on 31 May, Urbano Valero, PhD in Law and Counsellor for Legal Affairs and of the Institute of the Company of Jesus, will give a talk on 'La Compañía de Jesús después del Concilio Vaticano II'; on 28 November, Alfonso Alvarez Volado, emeritus professor of Church/Society Relationships at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, will give a lecture on 'Al servicio de la dimensión pública de la Iglesia'.
This cycle will end with a lecture by Jaime Oraá, Rector of the University of Deusto, on the role of Catholic universities in the promotion of justice. Also, Chris Lowney, writer and consultant from the Católiav Medical Commission, will attend this cycle with a talk on 'Heroic leadership. Best practices from a 450-year-old- Company that changed the world', focused on the topic 'El liderazgo al estilo de los jesuitas'. Another series of conferences have also been scheduled: the lecture by Fabio Salviato, Chairman of Banca Popolare Etica, which was held yesterday, and that by philosopher Gianni Vattimo, which will take place in November.
