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Out There No One Has a Right to Die. [PDF]

Bioethics
ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Häyry M.
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The Jesuit English Mission [PDF]

, 2018
This chapter concentrates on the English Jesuit Mission following its inception in 1580. It opens by examining Jesuit navigation of the issues surrounding religion and politics, arguing that it was impossible for the Jesuits’ activities not to have been considered political due to the entwining of the temporal and the spiritual in England.
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The population and vital rates of the jesuit missions of Chiquitos (Bolivia)

Antiguos Jesuitas en Iberoamérica, 2017
This is the first of a series of three articles that present information on the population and vital rates of the Jesuit missions in the Paraguay province reconstructed from censuses.
Robert H. Jackson
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The population and vital rates of the Jesuit missions of the Guarani (Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay)

Antiguos Jesuitas en Iberoamérica, 2017
This is the second of a series of three articles that present information on thepopulation and vital rates of the Jesuit missions in the Paraguay province reconstructed from censuses.
Robert H. Jackson
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Técnica, teoria e práxis na cartografia da Amazônia de Samuel Fritz

Terra Brasilis, 2020
This article deals with the Jesuit Samuel Fritz and the technical, theoretical, and pragmatic aspects of his cartographic production of the Maynas missions, located in the western Amazon.
Roberto Chauca
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Spanish Jesuits Around the World

Religions
One of the apostolic fields in which the Society of Jesus was involved since its foundation in 1540 was the missiones ad gentes [missions among non-Christians], which produced a constant flow of European missionaries to other continents.
Wenceslao Soto Artuñedo
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Jesuit correction and rewriting in the 18th century: on José Cardiel´s work (1747-1780)

Antiguos Jesuitas en Iberoamérica, 2017
José Cardiel (1704-1782) wrote different books about Jesuit missions of the Province of Paraguay between 1747 and 1780. All of them are rewritings based on the same text.
Fabian R. Vega
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Hernando de Villafañe's missionary cicle (1560-1634) and his relevance in the Society of Jesus' Mexican Province

Antiguos Jesuitas en Iberoamérica, 2016
Hernando de Villafañe (León, Castilla la Vieja, 1560 - Sinaloa, 1634) was one of the Society of Jesus' main actors in the early years of the order's mission in Sina-loa (New Vizcaya).
Gilberto López Castillo
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Jesuit Fathers Beyond the Iron Curtain: Directions and Challenges of Lithuanian Jesuit Exiles in the 20th Century

Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos
The article examines the directions and challenges of the activities of Lithuanian Jesuits in exile from 1931 to 1990. The study utilizes archival Jesuit documents such as annual meeting reports, meeting protocols, correspondence, and memoirs.
Ignas Stanevičius
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The System of Scholarly Communication Through the Lens of Jesuit Values

Journal of Moral Theology, 2020
The system of scholarly communication as it exists today is not neutral. Choices about where to publish and how to spend limited financial resources on journal subscriptions require ethical decision-making.
Lev Rickards, Shannon Kealey
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