The Doctrine of Tribulation - La Civiltà Cattolica

We wanted to re-publish the foreword that Fr. Jorge Mario Bergoglio wrote to The Letters of the Tribulation (Buenos Aires, Diego de Torres, 1988), a collection that includes seven letters from Father General Lorenzo Ricci, written between 1758 and 1773, and one from Father General Jan Roothaan, from 1831. In them we speak of a great tribulation: the suppression of the Society of Jesus. Why repropose today a text that has as its date the Christma…