ROME - The most important part of Jesuit Father John J. O'Callaghan's job, he admits, takes the least amount of time. As one of four general assistants at the Jesuit curia, his job, and theirs, is to supervise the actions of the order's father general - on behalf of all Jesuits.
It was an unusual experience, said O'Callaghan, 61, when elected to his position in the mid- 1980s, to kneel before the father general in front of the society and take a Latin oath warning the father ...