– The Meeting of the Presidents of Provincials’ Conferences will be held from the 21st to the 24th of September at the Jesuit Curia in Rome. The aim of the gathering is threefold, as described in decree 21 n. 25 of General Congregation 34: “to heighten the Presidents sense of the universal character of the Society; to gain a better understanding of the global priorities of the Society; to work with Father General in overseeing and encouraging the further development of regional and global cooperation.” This year’s meeting will focus on: the role of the Presidents of Provincials’ Conferences (theory and practice vis à vis the Provinces, the Conferences, the Assistants, Father General and the universal Society) and the changing face of the Church, in particular how we can consciously anticipate and form, in all regions of the Society, an international body that looks and acts differently than it did thirty years ago.

– The new website of Promotio Iustitiae, the journal of the Social Justice Secretariat, was launched on 15 July 2009: http://www.sjweb.info/sjs/pjnew/index.cfm?LangTop=1. It includes a search engine, RSS feed, and archive of past issues. You can read the full version as well as the single articles online (“Read online”) or offline (“Download pdf”). Subscribe to the newsletter to receive all future issues by email.