Cordileone to Newsmax: Pope Francis Brought Jesuit Spirit Into Papacy

Cordileone to Newsmax: Pope Francis Brought Jesuit Spirit Into Papacy

Pope Francis’ papacy “was based on the values and vision of the founder of his order” and he “brought the Jesuit spirit” into it, says Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone. “He’s always emphasizing the margins. Going out to the peripheries. Jesuits are the ones who go out to the far fringe peripheries to reach the people out there and bring them back in. So, he very much lived that Jesuit spirit and the way he lived out the papacy,” Cordileone told N…

Those of us who have studied in Jesuit schools throughout the world, in the case of Palma historically the oldest in activity, have lived the Papacy of Francis with curiosity. In addition to being the first Jesuit Cardinal to whom it has been entrusted to give the leap of Pretorian guard of the Papacy to the first Jesuit Pope of history; passing from Black Pope, as the generals of the Society of Jesus are known, to a Pope invested in the immacul…