Table of Contents #

The First and General Examen #

• CHAPTER 1: THE INSTITUTE OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS AND THE DIVERSITY OF ITS MEMBERS.
• CHAPTER 2: SOME CASES ABOUT WHICH A CANDIDATE TO THE SOCIETY SHOULD BE QUESTIONED
• CHAPTER 3: SOME QUESTIONS TOWARD GAINING A BETTER KNOWLEDGE OF THE CANDIDATE
• CHAPTER 4: SOME OBSERVANCES WITHIN THE SOCIETY WHICH ARE MORE IMPORTANT FOR THE CANDIDATES TO KNOW
• CHAPTER 5: ANOTHER EXAMEN, SOMEWHAT MORE PARTICULARIZED, FOR THE EDUCATED, SPIRITUAL COADJUTORS, AND SCHOLASTICS
• CHAPTER 6: ANOTHER EXAMEN, FOR COADJUTORS ALONE
• CHAPTER 7: ANOTHER EXAMEN FOR SCHOLASTICS: FIRST, BEFORE THEIR ADMISSION TO STUDIES
• CHAPTER 8: ANOTHER EXAMEN, FOR THOSE STILL INDIFFERENT

Preamble to the Constitutions #

Part I - The Admission of Probation #

• CHAPTER 1: THE PERSON WHO ADMITS
• CHAPTER 2: THE CANDIDATES WHO SHOULD BE ADMITTED
• CHAPTER 3: THE IMPEDIMENTS TO ADMISSION
• CHAPTER 4: 1THE MANNER OF DEALING WITH THOSE ADMITTED

Part II - The Dismissal of Those Who Were Admitted but Did Not Prove Themselves Fit #

• CHAPTER 1: WHO CAN BE DISMISSED, AND BY WHOM
• CHAPTER 2: THE CAUSES FOR DISMISSAL
• CHAPTER 3: THE MANNER OF DISMISSING
• CHAPTER 4: THE SOCIETY’S WAY OF DEALING WITH THOSE WHO LEAVE OF THEMSELVES OR ARE DISMISSED

Part III - The Preservation and Progress of Those Who Remain in Probation #

• CHAPTER 1: THE PRESERVATION PERTAINING TO THE SOUL AND TO PROGRESS IN VIRTUES
• CHAPTER 2: THE PRESERVATION OF THE BODY

Part IV - The Learning and Other Means of Helping Their Neighbor That Are to Be Imparted to Those Who Are Retained in the Society #

• PREAMBLE
• CHAPTER 1: THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE FOUNDERS AND BENEFACTORS OF THE COLLEGES
• CHAPTER 2: THE MATERIAL ASPECTS OF THE COLLEGES
• CHAPTER 3: THE SCHOLASTICS WHO ARE TO BE STATIONED IN THE COLLEGES
• CHAPTER 4: THE CARE AND WELFARE OF THE SCHOLASTICS IN THE COLLEGES
• CHAPTER 5: WHAT THE SCHOLASTICS OF THE SOCIETY SHOULD STUDY
• CHAPTER 6: MEANS FOR THEIR LEARNING WELL THE AFOREMENTIONED SUBJECTS
• CHAPTER 7: THE SCHOOLS MAINTAINED IN THE COLLEGES OF THE SOCIETY
• CHAPTER 8: THE INSTRUCTION OF THE SCHOLASTICS IN THE MEANS OF HELPING THEIR NEIGHBOR
• CHAPTER 9: REMOVAL FROM STUDIES
• CHAPTER 10: THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COLLEGES
• CHAPTER 11: THE ACCEPTANCE OF UNIVERSITIES
• CHAPTER 12: THE SUBJECTS WHICH SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN THE UNIVERSITIES OF THE SOCIETY
• CHAPTER 13: THE METHOD AND ORDER OF TREATING THE AFOREMENTIONED SUBJECT MATTERS
• CHAPTER 14: THE BOOKS TO BE LECTURED ON
• CHAPTER 15: THE TERMS AND DEGREES
• CHAPTER 16: WHAT PERTAINS TO GOOD MORAL HABITS
• CHAPTER 17: THE OFFICIALS OR ADMINISTRATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY

Part V - Admission or Incorporation in the Society #

• CHAPTER 1: ADMISSION: WHO SHOULD ADMIT, AND WHEN
• CHAPTER 2: THE QUALITIES OF THOSE WHO SHOULD BE ADMITTED
• CHAPTER 3: THE PROCEDURE IN ADMISSION TO PROFESSION
• CHAPTER 4: THE ADMISSION OF FORMED COADJUTORS AND SCHOLASTICS

Part VI - The Personal Life of Those Already Admitted and Incorporated in the Body of the Society #

• CHAPTER 1: WHAT PERTAINS TO OBEDIENCE
• CHAPTER 2: WHAT PERTAINS TO POVERTY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
• CHAPTER 3: THE OCCUPATIONS WHICH THOSE IN THE SOCIETY SHOULD UNDERTAKE AND THOSE WHICH THEY SHOULD AVOID
• CHAPTER 4: THE HELP GIVEN TO THE DYING MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY AND THE SUFFRAGES AFTER DEATH
• CHAPTER 5: THE CONSTITUTIONS DO NOT OBLIGE UNDER PAIN OF SIN

Part VII - The Relations to Their Neighbor of Those Already Incorporated in the Society When They Are Dispersed into the Vineyard of Christ Our Lord #

• CHAPTER 1: MISSIONS FROM THE SUPREME PONTIFF
• CHAPTER 2: THE MISSIONS RECEIVED FROM THE SUPERIOR OF THE SOCIETY
• CHAPTER 3: A MEMBER’S FREE MOVEMENT FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER
• CHAPTER 4: WAYS IN WHICH THE HOUSES AND COLLEGES CAN HELP THEIR NEIGHBORS

Part VIII - Helps toward Uniting Dispersed Members with Their Head and among Themselves #

• CHAPTER 1: AIDS TOWARD THE UNION OF HEARTS
• CHAPTER 2: THE OCCASIONS FOR HOLDING A GENERAL CONGREGATION
• CHAPTER 3: THOSE WHO SHOULD ASSEMBLE
• CHAPTER 4: WHO SHOULD CONVOKE A GENERAL CONGREGATION
• CHAPTER 5: THE PLACE, TIME, AND MANNER OF ASSEMBLING
• CHAPTER 6: THE MANNER OF REACHING A DECISION IN THE ELECTION OF A GENERAL
• CHAPTER 7: THE MANNER OF REACHING A DECISION ABOUT MATTERS OTHER THAN THE ELECTION OF A GENERAL #

Part IX - The Society’s Head, and the Government Which Descends from It #

• CHAPTER 1: THE NEED OF A SUPERIOR GENERAL AND HIS LIFELONG TERM OF OFFICE
• CHAPTER 2: THE KIND OF PERSON THE SUPERIOR GENERAL OUGHT TO BE
• CHAPTER 3: THE SUPERIOR GENERAL’S AUTHORITY OVER THE SOCIETY AND HIS FUNCTIONS #
• CHAPTER 4: THE AUTHORITY OR PROVIDENT CARE WHICH THE SOCIETY SHOULD EXERCISE IN REGARD TO THE SUPERIOR GENERAL
• CHAPTER 5: THE SOCIETY’S MANNER OF PROCEEDING IN WHAT PERTAINS TO THE GENERAL
• CHAPTER 6: AIDS TO THE SUPERIOR GENERAL FOR THE PROPER PERFORMANCE OF HIS FUNCTIONS

Part X - How the Whole Body of the Society Is to Be Preserved and Increased in Its Well-Being #