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Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J.  \nSuperior General of the Society of Jesus Introduction  \nThis conference on the commitment to justice in American Jesuit higher education comes at an important moment in the rich history of the twenty-eight colleges and universities represented here this evening. We also join Santa Clara University in celebrating the 150th anniversary of its founding.  \nJust as significant as this moment in history, is our location. Santa Clara Valley, named after the mission at the heart of this campus, is known worldwide as \"Silicon Valley,\" the home of the microchip. Surely when Father Nobili, the founder of this University, saw the dilapidated church and compound of the former Franciscan mission, he could never have imagined this valley as the center of a global technological revolution.  \nThis juxtaposition of mission and microchip is emblematic of all the Jesuit schools. Originally founded to serve the educational and religious needs of poor immigrant populations, they have become highly sophisticated institutions of learning in the midst of global wealth, power and culture. The turn of the millennium finds them in all their diversity: they are larger, better equipped, more complex and professional than ever before, and also more concerned about their Catholic, Jesuit identity.  \nIn the history of American Jesuit higher education, there is much to be grateful for, first to God and the Church, and surely to the many faculty, students, administrators and benefactors who have made it what it is today. But this conference brings you together from across the United States with guests from Jesuit universities elsewhere, not to congratulate one another, but for a strategic purpose. On behalf of the complex, professional and pluralistic institutions you represent, you are here to face a question as difficult as it is central: How can the Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States express faith-filled concern for justice in what they are as Christian academies of higher learning, in what their faculty do, and in what their students become?  \nAs a contribution to your response, I would like to (I.) reflect with you on what faith and justice has meant for Jesuits since 1975 and then (II.) consider some concrete circumstances of today,(III.) to suggest what justice rooted in faith could mean in American Jesuit higher education and (IV.) conclude with an agenda for the first decade of the years 2000.  \nI. The Jesuit commitment to faith and justice, new in 1975  \nI begin by recalling another anniversary, which this conference commemorates. Twentyfive years ago, ten years after the closing of the Second Vatican Council, Jesuit delegates from around the world gathered at the 32nd General Congregation (GC), to consider how the Society of Jesus was responding to the deep transformation of all Church life that was called for and launched by Vatican II.  \nAfter much prayer and deliberation, the Congregation slowly realized that the entire Society of Jesus in all its many works was being invited by the Spirit of God to set out on a new direction. The overriding purpose of the Society of Jesus, namely \"the service of faith,\" must also include \"the promotion of justice.\" This new direction was not confined to those already working with the poor and marginalized in what was called \"the social apostolate.\" Rather, this commitment was to be \"a concern of our whole life and a dimension of all our apostolic endeavors.\"1 So central to the mission of the entire Society was this union of faith and justice that it was to become the \"integrating factor\" of all the Society's works,2 and in this light \"great attention\" was to be paid in evaluating every work, including educational institutions.3  \nI myself attended GC 32, representing the Province of the Near East where, for centuries, the apostolic activity of the Jesuits has concentra","cbCaisEwrlTOJCsY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisEwrlTOJCsY","pdf",128188,14,"English","# Introduction\n## Jesuit commitment to faith and justice, new in 1975","[{\"question\":\"What central question does the conference introduction pose for American Jesuit higher education?\",\"answer\":\"How Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States can express faith-filled concern for justice in what they are as Christian academies, in faculty work, and in what students become.\"},{\"question\":\"What change in the Society of Jesus is highlighted as becoming central in 1975?\",\"answer\":\"The commitment to unite “the service of faith” with “the promotion of justice,” described as a concern of the whole life and a dimension of all apostolic endeavors.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is Santa Clara University’s location and anniversary emphasized in the introduction?\",\"answer\":\"The speech links the campus’s mission heritage and “Silicon Valley” setting to illustrate the Jesuit schools’ broader challenge—serving religious and educational needs amid changing wealth, power, and culture.\"}]","THE SERVICE OF FAITH AND THE PROMOTION OF JUSTICE IN AMERICAN JESUIT HIGHER EDUCATION - Introduction | PDF",1790653167,35]