Jesuit education

Argentine diplomat Rogelio Pfirter likes to invite four local clergy, including two Jesuits, to lunch wherever he is serving. As ambassador in London, from 1995-2000, his quartet included George Stack, Archbishop of Cardiff, and Canon Daniel Cronin, both then serving at Westminster Cathedral. He told them and the Jesuits that his fondness for the Society of Jesus was due to the priest who taught him literature and psychology at school: Jorge Bergoglio. Pfirter’s account of his education by the man who became Pope is in Abounding in Mercy, compiled by Canon Cronin and published by St Pauls this week.