Ignatius Press is a

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house based in

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, US. It was founded in 1978 by Father

Joseph Fessio Joseph Fessio (born January 10, 1941) is an American Jesuit priest as well as the founder and editor of Ignatius Press. He served as the founding provost of Ave Maria University until March 2007. Life Fessio attended high school at Bellarm ...

, a

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and former pupil of

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. Ignatius Press also produces ''

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'', '' Homiletic and Pastoral Review'', ''Ignatius Insight'' and the blog Ignatius Insight ''Scoop''. It is named after

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, founder of the

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order. In an interview in 1998, Fessio said Ignatius Press's objective "is to support the teachings of the Church".

History

Fr. Joseph Fessio founded St. Ignatius Institute, at the University of San Francisco, which offers a four-year

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program. Guadalupe Associates, Inc. was founded in 1977 as the non-profit parent company of the planned Ignatius Press. Ignatius Press was founded the following year. In an interview published by ''

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'', Fessio stated that one of the main objectives of Ignatius Press was to print

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translations of contemporary

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theologians. The first book Ignatius Press published was a translation of

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's ''Woman in the Church'' in 1979. This was followed the same year by a translation of

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's ''Heart of the World''. Fessio left Ignatius Press in 1987. In October 2014, leading up to the Synod on the Family, Ignatius Press sent over 100 copies of a book countering suggestions to permit divorced and civilly remarried Catholics receive communion. Fessio later said that the books never reached the bishops, suggesting they had been stolen from the mailboxes. A Vatican spokesman denied the allegation. Ignatius Press has a full list of publications with a number of new offerings each spring and fall. Among the reprints it has issued are works by G. K. Chesterton and

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. In addition to publishing the works of

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, Ignatius Press has published newer works by Cardinal

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(later Pope Benedict XVI),

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, and

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. It also publishes various study and devotional editions of the Ignatius Bible, making use of the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition, a translation revised according to

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and noted for its

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. In 2014, Ignatius Press entered into a distribution agreement with the

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to "bring the famous CTS bookstands to North America". Additionally, it entered a collaboration with the

Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship (

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) and

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to publish an annual congregational missal that is fully consistent with the directives of

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. The press issues the periodicals ''Catholic World Report'' and '' Homiletic and Pastoral Review''. It also produces the Ignatius Insight website and the ''Ignatius Insight Scoop'' blog."About IgnatiusInsight.com"
''Ignatius Insight''

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