The Jordan Project started in the Spanish Province in 2019, within the framework of UNIJES, investigating the structural causes of abuse in the Church from a theological-spiritual reflection.
On 14 July the Jordan Project was presented in Barcelona to the General of the Society of Jesus, Arturo Sosa. Together with our Provincial, Antonio España, he was given a first-hand presentation of the work being done in the specific area of Universal Apostolic Preference 2: "To walk alongside the poor, the outcasts of the world, those whose dignity has been violated in a mission of reconciliation and justice [...] To contribute to the elimination of abuses inside and outside the Church".
The meeting brought together the heads of the Jesuit research, prevention and intervention of abuse in the Church (Susana Pradera-Safe Environment and Valeska Ferrer-Jordan Project) and two members of the Jordan Project (JP) team based in Barcelona (Sandra Racionero and Oriol Quintana).
The meeting was a confirmation of the work being done. Father General expressed his satisfaction with the focus of the project, by addressing both causes and solutions from different disciplines, and was pleased with the international presence that is already being generated. Fr. Arturo Sosa stressed the importance of the cultural change to which we are called to overcome abuse, a change to which we can contribute from what we have already begun to glimpse in the Jordan Project: the necessary theological and Ignatian reflection of theological and ecclesial categories from the meetings with the victims themselves, offenders and members of institutions, through the instruments we are deploying such as the survey of the Province, interviews and successful actions in overcoming abuse based on scientific evidence of social impact.
In the words of Susana Pradera and Valeska Ferrer: "It was a meeting in which we vibrated in the same feeling, in a common resonance both in the concerns and in the hopes of the mission to which we feel called and to which we are called. It was a reason for serene joy, for sustained peace".
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