A Jesuit priest has explained how the leadership election process works within the order.
The Jesuits have a unique process for electing a superior general for their order, a process that "if you have not seen it, you would think it is impossible," said Jesuit Father Orlando Torres, rector of an international Jesuit house of studies in Rome.
"I've never seen an election like this anywhere in the world," Fr Torres told reporters in Rome on September 27 as 215 Jesuits from around the world were preparing to begin a general congregation and elect a successor to 80-year-old Spanish Father Adolfo Nicolas.
