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Gulf Pine Catholic • July 27, 2018 3 Gulf Pine Catholic (ISSN No. 0746-3804) July 27, 2018 Volume 35, Issue 24 The GULF PINE CATHOLIC , published every other week, is an official publication of the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi. Editorial offices are located at 1790 Popps Ferry Road Biloxi, MS 39532. Periodical postage paid at Gulfport, MS. —POSTMASTER— Send address changes to: The GULF PINE CATHOLIC 1790 Popps Ferry Road Biloxi, MS 39532 —PUBLISHER— Most Rev. Louis F. 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Allow three weeks for changes of address. —DEADLINES for AUGUST 10 EDITION— News copy and photos: Due AUGUST 2, 4 p.m. Advertising: Completed Ad and/or copy due AUGUST 2, 10 a.m. Bishop Kihneman’s Schedule July 28 Mass & First Vows Sister Kelly Williams, Sacred Heart, D’Iberville, 11 a.m. Seminarian Gathering, 6:30 p.m. July 29 Mass, Nativity Cathedral, 11 a.m. July 30 Diocesan School Advisory Council Orientation, 6 p.m. July 31 Intentional Disciple Workshop, RCS High School & Elementary, 10 a.m. Aug. 1 Workshop, School Religious Education, Pastoral Center, 9 a.m. Intentional Disciple Workshop, St. Patrick High, 1:30 p.m. Aug. 2 Opening of Schools Mass, Nativity Cathedral, 10 a.m. Aug. 3 Intentional Disciple Workshop, St. Vincent de Paul Elementary Gym, 10 a.m. Beatification cause opens for Jesuit Pedro Arrupe, early mentor to Pope Francis VATICAN CITY (C NA ) -- A cause has begun in the Diocese of Rome for the beatifi- cation of Fr. Pedro Arrupe SJ, former superi- or general of the Society of Jesus. The priest, who served as a mentor to the future Pope Francis, was a controversial figure within the Society of Jesus. Jesuit Father General Fr. Arturo Sosa announced Arrupe’s cause at a meeting in Bilbao, Spain with some 300 Jesuits and lay associates involved with the International Association of Jesuit Universities. The news was confirmed to CNA by the communications director for the Jesuit Cu- ria in Rome, Fr. Patrick Mulemi, who said the cause is “has been opened,” but has just begun. “We are right at the beginning of the process,” he said, explaining that the Jesuits will follow the same procedure as any other cause. Born in Spain in 1907, Arrupe served as superior general for the Society of Jesus from 1965-1983, leading the order through the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council. During that time, he also served three con- In an undated file photo, Jorge Mario Bergoglio (L) celebrates Mass with Jesuit superior general Pedro Arrupe. Credit: Jesuit General Curia via Getty Images secutive terms as president of the Union of Religious Superiors General, from 1967-1982. According to papal bi- ographer Austen Ivereigh, who wrote the widely read biography of Pope Francis, “The Great Reformer,” Ar- rupe and then-Fr. Bergoglio “had a very good and close relationship, and Bergo- glio saw him as a spiritual father, he enormously ad- mired him and was inspired by him.” It was Arrupe who ap- pointed Bergoglio the Jesuit provincial of Argentina in 1973, and the two remained close. The made a joint-visit to the Diocese of La Rioja to support Bishop Enrique Ángel Angelelli Carletti, who was assassinated in 1976 during Argentina’s Dirty War. Arrupe entered the Society of Jesus in 1927 after studying medicine. After the order was expelled from Spain in 1932, he went to study in Belgium, the Netherlands and the United States as part of his formation before being ordained a priest. He was ordained in 1936 and obtained a degree in medical ethics before being sent to Japan in 1938 to work as a missionary. While abroad, he became the master of novices for the Jesuit novitiate in Japan, and was liv- ing in Hiroshima when the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945. With his history in medicine, the young priest converted the novitiate into a make- shift hospital for the wounded. A decade lat- er, in 1958, he was named the first provincial for Japan, overseeing all Jesuits who lived in the country. Arrupe held the position until May 1965, when he was elected Father General of the Jesuits during the 31st General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, just six months before the closing of the Second Vatican Council. After the council, the Jesuits, who were the largest religious order in the world at the time, shifted focus and embraced a more social-justice oriented approach to their ap- ostolic work, under Arrupe’s direction. During the order’s 1974-75 32nd general congregation, Arrupe passed a number of new decrees, including one titled: “Our Mis- sion Today: The Service of Faith and the Pro- motion of Justice,” which focused heavily on social justice issues and became a blueprint for the Society’s direction. Arrupe’s changes were met with opposi- tion by many Jesuits, and under his leader- ship, the order clashed with Pope Paul VI and other Vatican and ecclesial figures. In 1973, Pope Paul VI issued a warning to Arrupe about experimentation in the Soci- ety of Jesus. Six years later, Pope John Paul II accused the Jesuit leadership of “causing confusion among the Christian people and anxieties to the church and also personally to the Pope,” criticizing in particular “secu- larizing tendencies” and “doctrinal unortho- doxy” within the order. Arrupe acknowledged issues within the Society of Jesus, and made efforts to repri- mand some priests accused of public doctri- nal deviances. Some in the order questioned whether he should have made systemic changes in responses to papal criticism, rath- er than issuing individual corrections. Within the Society of Jesus, one of the groups who opposed Arrupe’s changes called themselves “la vera sociedad,” or “the true society,” and were on the verge of splitting from the order, intending to intervene in the 1974 general congregation meeting until Bergoglio stepped in, at Arrupe’s request, to calm the fury. Arrupe, Ivereigh said, “held [Bergoglio] in high esteem, he trusted him.” As for the future pope, Ivereigh said Ber- goglio was “unquestionably” influenced by Arrupe’s leadership, and often cited his for- mer superior general in speeches. “Arrupe was something of a model for Francis,” the biographer said, explaining that the main threads of similarity between the two were not only a shared concern for the poor, but also their approach to moder- nity, believing that what was needed was “an engagement” between faith and the modern world. SEE PEDRO ARRUPE, PAGE 7