Posted on 03/13/2013 2:20:35 PM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
One of "God's Marines" is now Pope, with Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio today becoming the first Jesuit elected to lead the world's Catholics.
Jesuits are labelled "God's Marines" or Catholic ''storm troopers'', in recognition of their 16th-century founder Ignatius of Loyola, who had a military background.
The Society of Jesus (more commonly known as Jesuits) demands four vows: poverty, chastity, obedience to Christ, and obedience to the Pope.
Its purpose is the propagation of the Catholic faith by any means possible.
A Spanish nobleman, Ignatius of Loyola was set on a career as a professional soldier, until a cannonball shattered one of his legs in 1521.
During his recovery he read religious books, fasted and prayed, then decided to become a soldier of Christ.
The Jesuits' first focus was the conversion of Muslims, then halting the spread of Protestantism.
With their military-style training, the Jesuits were feared as the "storm troopers" of the Roman Catholic Church, and led armies which recaptured large areas for it.
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Can’t be. Either you ARE a Jesuit, priestly vows and all (brain required...Jesuits are very very smart!) or you isn’t (moonbeam...moonbrain).
I got my undergraduate degree at a Jesuit university. I can vouch for the fact that the classes are *very* demanding at an intellectual level. I actually received a full academic scholarship, and of all of the schools to which I applied they had the most stringent requirements. A running gag we had was that a 3.0 at our university was worth a 3.8 at one of our neighboring rivals ;^)
I only encountered two leftist professors there and they were both lay teachers. All of the priests I had came off as very conservative. I think they get a bad rap with the leftist charge—it’s not so much a political bent as that they demand intellectual rigor and understanding in addition to faith. They won’t accept students’ taking the Church’s teachings only on faith: in my experience, Jesuits demand a deeper understanding of why the teachings are the way they are from both theological and philosophical standpoints, and that sometimes includes using contrast and juxtaposition with alternate belief systems. One way to look at it is that they want students to become “worldly” before tossing them into the outside world.
God’s Marines.
I like the sound of that.
OOORAH, I hope he is the Jesuit version of Chesty Puller. Or at least R. Lee Ermey.
Give that Pope dude a Ma Deuce and turn ‘em loose on the rats.
It didn’t work out so well with Galileo.
Perhaps the democrat party will milk the new Pope for their Social Justice they have forced upon us.
I too went to a Jesuit college. I agree with your assessment. Some of the most difficult classes I ever attended. Slouch just even a teeny bit, you paid.
The non Jesuit instructors were lefties. The Jesuits were not. And they did treat us veterans well at a time when we were getting dumped on by everybody.
Still no Dominican pope.
Edit, I am wrong. There were two. Benedict XI and Pius V who excommunicated Elizabeth I.
Totally anecdotal and coming from a former Episcopalian (left due to liberalism), not a big fan of Catholicism, married to a Catholic.
My wife, in-law’s, and I attended her Church one Sunday when a visiting Jesuit was filling in for the resident (uninspiring) Priest. His service and Homily was the most incredible I’ve experienced including my old Episcopalian Priest that I loved (prior to the liberal takeover). After the service I walked up to him and said, “I’m not a Catholic but here with my wife. If every Catholic Priest could preach like you just did, I’d convert instantly.” He asked my name, thanked me, and gave me a blessing. That guy could convince me to walk barefoot over broken glass happily. If the new Pope is a tenth of that Jesuit, the world is better for it.
Those worked out well... </SARCASM>
So it was more the opportunity for plunder than the ability to persuade that did the Albigensians (Cathar heretics) in and they sound like the good guys. How Christian?
Me too!!!!!
Please recognize that BI is a liberal rag in electronic form.
I had the same experience as you!!! I pray this Pope is the same way...
...and George Lucas
“They were the specially trained infantry that almost won the war for the Germans in the first half of 1918. They were the German secret weapon to break the stalemate of trench warfare, as tanks were for the Allies.”
That was after the ones from a long time ago, in a galaxy far away. The storm troopers of 1918 were a desperate play for field position before the weight of US intervention could be fully felt; in a country starving due to the blockade, dealing with an ammunition strike, the stormtroopers were given the best food and ammo to maintain an offensive that had little hope of success. As in the battle of the Bulge a quarter century later, there were simply not enough men or supplies, and the Germans feared moving the men from the Eastern Front (where Russia had surrendered a year earlier) because they had been radicalized by communists - at the time of the armistice there were still 1 million German troops in Russia.
The spring offensive was to bargain for a better truce, and it failed on all counts. You are right that its a shame the Nazis corrupted the term; Darth Vader redeemed it a bit.
He is an old school Jesuit, not part of the current liberal type.
Pro-life, against homosexual marriage and homosexual adoptions, against communism and marxism, and thinks social justice is more about being a good Christian and helping the poor rather than a basis for leftist economic theory.
Pope Pius V was a Dominican.
Yeah, there’s no such thing. Jesuits have no such oath and never did.
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