Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference in Washington, said many scholars acknowledge Serra's complicated legacy.
This is the first Jesuit, the first Latin American and of course the first Argentine.
He immediately sent a message of congratulation to his fellow Jesuit Pope Francis on his election.
The new pope, a Jesuit (another first), in fact has gentler views than his predecessors.
Georges Lemaitre, who developed much of the Big Bang Theory, was a Jesuit priest.
Latin American outlets stress Jesuit Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio's austere, down-to-earth habits and social concerns.
People who know him say he has long visited working-class slums, true to his Jesuit origins.
Pope Francis studied theology in Germany and was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 1969.
Tens of thousands of Argentines disappeared and were killed during the period, including several Jesuit priests.
Now, a Latin American Jesuit has been elected head of the 1.2-billion strong Catholic Church.
The Spanish also established a Jesuit mission in Virginia, a few miles from the future Jamestown.
John Garvey is dean of the law school at Boston College, a Jesuit school.
James Martin, a Jesuit priest and editor-at-large at America magazine in New York.
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Jesuit theologian Thomas Reese told the BBC he expected a protracted conclave that could produce a surprise.
Bergoglio, who will go by the name Francis I, is the first Jesuit to be selected as Pontiff.
Father Nawras Sammour, a 44-year-old Jesuit from Aleppo, runs a nationwide relief program known as Jesuit Refugee Services.
The network of Jesuit colleges, universities, and high schools is the largest private school system in the world.
Yesterday's long underwear would do, Hopkins thought, and then a jersey that the Jesuit Theologate's laundress had shrunk.
As a Jesuit, he also carries the strong missionary and educational traditions of that muscular order of priests.
Among the unverifiable revelations: Argentine Jesuit Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the German's closest rival in the voting.
Pope Francis the first Jesuit pope has spent nearly his entire career at home in Argentina.
The most popular theory rests on the Saint Omer Jesuit College and the fate of its own library during the French Revolution.
To paraphrase the old Jesuit dictum: Act as if you have community, and community will be given to you.
Possibly the darkest period during Francis' rise to power took place when he served as the nation's top Jesuit.
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It was during this period Clavius began to urge his Jesuit superiors to get behind major reforms in the universities.
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His own record as the head of the Jesuit order in Argentina at the time has been tarnished as well.
Two New Orleans-area speakers, Jesuit Principal Michael Giambelluca and Edna Karr Principal John Hiser, compared the split to racial segregation.
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Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university whose main campus is located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.
Young Jesuit scholastics and priests, whose uptown friends were under observation by the FBI, were embarrassed and asked us to stop.
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