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Thomas Hughes

1849–1939

Best known for thoughtful Catholic scholarship, this English Jesuit writer explored education, philosophy, and church history in works that range from studies of Loyola to a major history of the Jesuits in North America.

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Loyola and the Educational System of the Jesuits

Loyola and the Educational System of the Jesuits

by Thomas Hughes

About the author

Born in Liverpool on January 24, 1849, Thomas Aloysius Hughes was an English author and Jesuit priest whose writing joined religious learning with a strong interest in education and ideas. Sources found during this search identify him with St. Francis Xavier’s College, Stonyhurst, and later academic work in literature and philosophy.

His books include Loyola and the Educational System of the Jesuits, Principles of Anthropology and Biology, Talks on Truth for Teachers and Thinkers, and the large-scale History of the Society of Jesus in North America, Colonial and Federal. Taken together, they show a writer drawn to teaching, Catholic intellectual life, and the long historical story of the Jesuit order.

He died in 1939. Reliable biographical detail available online appears fairly limited, but the surviving record of his publications presents him as a serious, wide-ranging nonfiction writer whose work spoke to readers interested in religion, history, and education.