Article: The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits.(Book review)

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE JESUITS. Edited by Thomas Worcester, S.J. Cambridge Companion to Religion. New York: Cambridge University, 2008. Pp. xii + 361. $90; $29.99.

There are many delights and several deficiencies among these 18 essays. Gemma Simmonds's chapter on Mary Ward is a model of clarity and balance. Her coverage of Ward's efforts to found a congregation of women Jesuits traces a tortuous story. The "English Ladies" were banned by Urban VII, and like-minded groups were marginalized by other popes, at least beyond the borders of the Gallican church, where female congregations, modeled along Jesuit lines, established a foothold. Later, after the ...

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