Mary Ward - Part 2

Benedict XVI praised her charism on Friday 17th September , John Paul II highlighted her work in a special way speaking in England back in 1982 .She's the Venerable Mary Ward: a saintly Yorkshire woman who had her founding vision four centuries ago.
Sister Frances Orchard tells Veronica Scarisbrick how the Rome branch of her Order took the name "Congregatio Jesu" in 2003 , adopting the full Jesuit Constitutions :


"Mary Ward's charism was so clearly Ignatian .."

"Ignatius of Loyola, when he called his Congregation the Jesuits saw the entire concept as being in the following of Jesus ... Mary Ward also wanted them to have the name Jesus in their title..she never persuaded the Jesuits to let that happen ...never gave her Congregation a name and the Church in the end suppressed her ..."