We have to be willing to talk about gender and ordination. But let’s first understand the tradition.

“In the late winter of 1995 Peter Hans Kolvenbach, superior general of the Society of Jesus, convened a general congregation—the global governing body of the Jesuits.”

“Father Kolvenbach was convening the 34th General Congregation not to elect a new superior but to ask the delegates of the global Society to reflect more deeply on their response to the “signs of the times,” especially in light of the Society’s commitment to “a faith that does justice.”

“We Jesuits first ask God for the grace of conversion. We have been part of a civil and ecclesial tradition that has offended against women.”

Read the article here: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2021/09/16/women-ordination-church-debate-241427