Appropriating the closure of Jesuit missions: Fritz Hochwälder's Das heilige Experiment by F. Hale

“… Since the eighteenth century the history of the Jesuit missionary endeavours in South America, especially their forced closure in 1760s, has been used rhetorically by writers in several genres, providing them with historical evidence to support a variety of latter-day causes. …”
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The Confession of King Gälawdewos (r. 1540–1559): A Sixteenth-Century Ethiopian Monophysite Document against Jesuit Proselytism by Solomon Gebreyes Beyene

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Una tarda critica a Cartesio e Gassendi di un tomista dei primi del ’700: la Dissertatio de modis sciendi iuxta Chartesii et Gassendi discipulos by Stefano Caroti

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Images of India in the Lithuanian press of Catholic missions, 1927–1940 by Laurynas Kudijanovas

“…Based on the articles published in the Jesuit magazine “Misijos” and the Salesian magazine “Saleziečių žinios” in 3rd and 4th decades of the 20th century, three main images that represented India in Lithuania are examined: Indian spirituality and religiosity, social problems of society, primarily the caste system and women’s rights, and finally the ferocious nature of the land. …”
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“God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. A Poetic Path into the Depths of Contemplation by Marcin Godawa

“…The object is God’s Grandeur, a brilliant sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poet, priest, Jesuit, a man of spiritual passion. Its analysis along with interpretation, in terms of both poetics and spiritual theology, will allow us to see how aesthetic contemplation works and could bear fruit for a contemporary man’s relation to himself or herself, to the world as well as most importantly to God, the source of created goodness. …”
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Notation publications in the context of musical life in Lithuania in the XVI-XVII centuries by Jūratė Trilupaitienė

“…The Lithuanian Jesuits, now no longer accountable to the Polish church hierarchy, began to make independent decisions about the publication of hymnals. …”
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Some notes about the books of Žygimantas Augustas in the Vilnius University Library by Alma Braziūnienė

“…The majority of the dispersed books with provenance inscriptions from the Vilnius Jesuits College (68 volumes) are in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in St. …”
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