{"id":30782,"date":"2014-05-20T12:14:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T16:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=30782"},"modified":"2014-05-20T12:15:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T16:15:55","slug":"jesuit-general-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/jesuit-general-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesuit General to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Pope-Francis-and-Adolfo-Nicolas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30783 alignleft\" alt=\"Pope Francis and Adolfo Nicolas\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Pope-Francis-and-Adolfo-Nicolas-300x205.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Pope-Francis-and-Adolfo-Nicolas-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Pope-Francis-and-Adolfo-Nicolas.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Father Adolfo Nicolas, SJ, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus,\u00a0plans to submit his resignation in late 2016. He has the approval of Pope Francis. Father Nicolas, 78, is citing his advanced age. He was elected to head the Society of Jesus on 19 January 2008.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is a surprise announcement that does not represent a good discernment, unless there are other issues, other and age, at play that we are not privy to hear.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nicolas wrote to the whole Society today:\u00a0&#8220;Several years have passed since my election as Superior General of the Society and I have\u00a0recently reached the age of 78. Reflecting on the coming years, I have reached the personal\u00a0conviction that I should take the needed steps towards submitting my resignation to a General\u00a0Congregation. After obtaining the initial approval of the Assistants ad providentiam and\u00a0having informed his Holiness Pope Francis, I formally consulted the Assistants\u00a0<em>ad\u00a0providentiam\u00a0<\/em>and the Provincials, as our law requires (NC 362). The result of the consultation\u00a0is favorable towards the convening of a General Congregation.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to the Constitutions of the Society of\u00a0Jesus state, Father Nicolas has convoked a General Congregation of Jesuits &#8211;the 36th since 1540 to elect his successor &#8220;during the final months of 2016.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Until the\u00a0General Congregation accepts his resignation, Nicolas remains Superior General. \u00a0The\u00a0successor will be elected and approved by the Roman Pontiff.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The last Jesuit to resign was Father Peter Hans Kolvenbach, the 29th General who served from 1983-2008, who succeeded the Servant of God Father Pedro Arrupe.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Adolfo Nicolas, SJ, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus,\u00a0plans to submit his resignation in late 2016. He has the approval of Pope Francis. Father Nicolas, 78, is citing his advanced age. He was elected to head the Society of Jesus on 19 January 2008. This is a surprise announcement that does not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/jesuit-general-to-resign\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jesuit General to resign<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2394,1838,32107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30786,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30782\/revisions\/30786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}