The aim of this study is to write a history of resignations and dismissals (dimissi) from the Society of Jesus in twentieth-century Chile as a way of addressing the problem of abuse of power and sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. It focuses on a set of emblematic cases from the Chilean Province between 1943 and 1955. Dismissals (dimissiones) have received little attention from historians of the Society, likely due to the difficulty of accessing relevant archival sources. This paper analyzes the reactions of Jesuit authorities to cases of abuse of power that materialized in sexual violence committed by Jesuits active in Chile between 1925 and 1955. It argues that archival sources produced around the dimissi—those dismissed or forced to leave—allow sexual violence to be recontextualized within a broader analysis of the Society's relationship to its own members, structured by a highly effective internal hierarchy, as well as to the surrounding civil society. The histories of students in Jesuit schools and of indigenous populations are often intertwined with those of abusive Jesuits who were relocated, dismissed, or encouraged to join the secular clergy or other, "less strict," religious orders. By cross-referencing documentation produced by the central government of the Society in Rome (Superior General, Procurator, Assistants) with correspondence exchanged with the provinces, the study reconstructs a geography of practices of (non-)dismissal. This geography is shaped by canon law and Jesuit legal practices, as well as by the criteria of "scandal" and "incorrigibility," articulated in relation to the notion of the "common good."