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The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus, part 6,Jesuit Religious Life; part 7, Missioning. By ANTONIO M. DE ALDAMA, S.J. Modern Scholarly Studies about the Jesuits in English Translation 13,14. St. Louis, Mo.: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1995, 1996. xii + 147 pp.; xi + 236 pp. $14.95; $18.95.
Despite George Ganss's English translation of Ignatius Loyola's Constitutions of the Society of Jesus (St. Louis, Mo.: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1970), the arcane field of Jesuit constitutional and institutional history has remained largely unexplored. Thus Ignacio Echaniz's translation of Aldama's multivolume commentary on the Constitutions is especially welcome. Five volumes have been published; we await the sixth.
Part 6 treats the vows of chastity, obedience, and poverty. Aldama draws our attention to Loyola's concern for evangelical poverty and gratuity of...