The Jesuit order has devolved into an unspeakable lot. Very trying times for the Church. Georgetown is the nation’s premier Jesuit university. The Jesuits are sworn to defend the Pope specifically and the Church. They care to do neither. The Church is now faced with a very difficult problem. First the covering of Catholic symbols to accommodate Obama, the use of its law school to challenge doctrine and now the invitation of an excommunicated Catholic to further confuse the faithful. Can the Church tolerate such heretic behavior? It may be necessary to disband the Jesuit order and allow individual priests to make their own decisions. Georgetown and the Jesuits are doing grave harm to the Church at a very difficult time.
God bless Bishop Bishop George Murry, S.J.!
The Jesuits did indeed “devolve into an unspeakable lot”, but only the Latin American “Liberation Theology” bunch under Miguel D’Escoto and that other bearded marxist poet in Nicaragua - Ernesto ?; the Brazilian originator of Liberation Theology; Rev. Robert Drinan (D-Mass/GTU Law School); and some of the GTU faculty (re Latin America).
Also, there are some related groups, Quixote Center and Center of Concern, in DC, and William Davis, SJ, who was associated with the extreme leftist Catholic group, The Christic Institute.
On the other hand, the old Jesuits I knew from China/Red China, were firm opponents of communism because they had seen it first hand, and often suffered from it at first hand.
Unfortunately, in the US., the marxist members of the Jesuits got the press coverage, esp. from the Wash. Post whose writers were often as leftist as the people they covered (i.e. Karen DeYoung, literally a disinformation propagandist for the Marxist Sandinistas).
The old Council for Inter-American Security, and Steven Powell, in his book “Covert Cadres: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies”, exposed the leftist “Liberation Theology” jesuits, along with other leftist clergy from WOLA, EPICA, etc, phonebooth propaganda operations for the Latin American marxist movements.
Today, “Rev. Jim Wallis” is the new “Liberation Theology” jesuit surrogate with his marxist Soujourner Organization. Thanks to Mark Tooley and his Institute for Religion and Democracy, you can read weekly what the marxist Religious Left is doing in America, and you will be shocked.
I knew a number of patriotic conservative professors who taught at Notre Dame, GTU, GWU, and American Un., and often they found themselves alone, surrounded by the enemy. This is a tragic story that needs to be exposed on every level.
American Un. always had a leftist chaplain since I was there from 1966-70. Some were clowns, others hardcored marxists like former WOLA leader Joseph Eldridge, who showed up at a White House dinner about a month ago.
(WOLA: Washington Office on Latin America, a pro-marxist propaganda group relied upon by a number of leftwing congressmen/women for information). Also a pet source for the Carter Administration and possibly the Clinton/Obama administrations.