Father Antonio Vieira SJ By Gloria Kaiser and Roman A. Siebenrock, Translated by Lowell A. Bangerter

In this book you will become well acquainted with Father Antonio Vieira SJ (1608–1697), a fighter for justice in two worlds. Let yourself be carried away into environments that are as foreign as they are familiar, which, between Europe and the New World, this Jesuit experienced, pondered, and above all helped to form through his public words: colonialism and the awakening of Brazilian identity; the conflict of the Jesuit Order between its mission and economic interests and forces; the diplomatic journeys of this extraordinary Jesuit in Europe; his trial in Rome and the encounter with Queen Christina of Sweden. In the newly edited Sermon on the Works of Mercy, even today we can reconstruct his deepest motives for ourselves. That which became the program of the Society of Jesus with the Second Vatican Council is reflected like a red thread in this life: To live and ponder action for faith and justice.