Contrasting the Jesuits with the older, more stable religious orders, Jerónimo Nadal, one of the early companions of St Ignatius, coined the phrase that forms the title for this edition of The Way: ‘The world is our house.’ No one joining this upstart congregation should expect to stay in one place, or even simply to move around within his homeland. Ignatius wanted men to go wherever the need was greatest, ‘even to the Indies’, and who would move on when a still greater need appeared elsewhere. Since the sixteenth century, many societies and cultures have become much more mobile and fluid, and today it is not only Jesuits who live in expectation of perhaps frequent moves.
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