Los jesuitas son hoy un tercio de lo que fueron, y la causa no ha sido el paso del tiempo

In brief

The Society of Jesus currently has only about one third of the members it possessed in 1965, according to a report by InfoVaticana. As the order celebrates 486 years since its pontifical approval, it is closing houses in Mexico and Navarra.

While some explanations attribute the decline to a vocational winter, Malachi Martin offered a different reason. Martin was a Jesuit for twenty years and a witness to the Second Vatican Council.