American Jesuits and the Global Church

John T. McGreevy is dean of the College of Arts and Letters and professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of a new book, American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global. The book explores the journey of the Jesuits as a religious group on the brink of obscurity to an order that numbered 17,000 men and expanded the Catholic Church's reach around the world.