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Paper Title : UAPs within the IPP:  The Best Fit

Authors : Fr. Swaminathan Krishnamurti, S.J.

Abstract  

Just as a cannonball put an end to Iñigo’s pride and reoriented his life towards God, the Jesuit Superior General Fr Arturo Sosa’s Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs) arrived in February 2019 to reset the Jesuits on the fire of Christ’s love to alleviate the sufferings of the seekers of God, the excluded, the youth, and creation. They arrived in the year when many unfortunate global events, such as Brexit, conflicts in the Middle East, the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, the forest fire in Amazonia, and the rise of nationalism in age-old democracies like India and the US, were unleashed. In short, UAPs were introduced at the right time when the world needed them the most. The rich experience of the UAPs by the Jesuits has led to careful reflection, concrete action, and critical evaluation. This, in turn, has led to a substantial change in the original context and has yielded better experiences. That said, this reflective essay argues that understanding the UAPs within the framework of the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP) is the most fitting response to the persistent questions that arise in our quest for integral liberation.

Keywords: IPP, UAP, God, The excluded, The youth and the earth.

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UAPs within the IPP:  The Best Fit