Jesuits Implode

The American Spectator ^ | George Neumayr

[marshmallow]

Even liberals are sounding the alarm on the order's free fall into decadence and intolerance.

Were Ignatius of Loyola alive today, the Jesuit order he founded wouldn't ordain him. His once-formidable society is now a corrupt club for homosexual dilettantes and anti-papal dissenters. Real Catholics need no longer apply.

The order is in the throes of a collapse as historically significant as its suppression in 1773. This disintegration, known to traditional Catholics for years (and to bishops too cowardly to stifle its corruption), is now even admitted by liberal pundits. Garry Wills' article about the book "Passionate Uncertainty: Inside the American Jesuits" appears in the New York Review of Books under the title, "Jesuits in Disarray." Jonathan Kirsch, a Los Angeles Times reviewer of the same book, notes that the order is in demographic free fall: "former Jesuits now outnumber active Jesuits in the United States."

Meanwhile, traditional Jesuits who stay and seek to recover the order's original spark find themselves in exile. The office for the Jesuit Province in California confirmed to TAP that Joseph Fessio, the prolific San Francisco Jesuit publisher of orthodox books and publications, has been ordered to leave San Francisco for a new assignment, effective in May, at an obscure Catholic hospital in Duarte, California. Fessio's banishment coincides with his recent announcement to start a traditional Catholic school called Campion College next door to the openly dissenting Jesuit University of San Francisco, a school which in recent years has advertised such pagan oddities as a "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Student Alliance."

Duarte, California, is becoming the Devil's Island for Jesuits who don't conform to the order's liberal regime. Father Cornelius Buckley, a longtime Jesuit history professor at the University of San Francisco deemed insufficiently liberal for the school, was reassigned to Duarte, California, in.....

[Cicero]

A sad business. I doubt whether the Jesuit order is salvageable at this point. Perhaps there might be a new order of reformed Jesuits, just as there have been reformed Benedictines, Franciscans, Cistercians, and others over the years.

In a typical liberal irony, the dissenters in the order who rose to power through disobedience to papal authority . . . .

Ironic, also, because while most religious orders take three vows--poverty, chastity, and obedience--the Jesuits are notable for taking a fourth vow--faithful obedience to the Pope.

And it's not just the American Jesuits, I'm afraid. It's all over the world, from the Superior General on down. There continue to be some faithful and orthodox Jesuits, but they are increasingly outnumbered and pushed aside.

[Mrs. Don-o]

This is an OLD article: it says that even liberals like Garry Wills are "now" understanding that the Jesuits are disintegrating, and links to a Wills article dated 2002. It also mentions Fr. Fessio's "exile" from San Francisco as news (this also happened in 2002) and references Fr. Robert Drinan in the present tense (he died in 2007).

Other than being from the wayback archive, it's pretty good.

[detective]

“if the head of the order “should try to enforce the papal ban on any homosexual activity, the already thin ranks could be considerably reduced — gays might leave in droves, as heterosexuals already have.””

This is what they should do. Get the pathetic, self-absorbed perverts to leave. The sooner the better.

The Jesuits have been corrupted. Only by getting rid of the evil men who have infiltrated the order can it be rebuilt.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I mean, of course, “good” in the sense of bad. :o(

[PGR88]

if the head of the order "should try to enforce the papal ban on any homosexual activity, the already thin ranks could be considerably reduced -- gays might leave in droves, as heterosexuals already have."

Homosexuality a sign of decay and corruption as clear as a bell. It has been true across nations and history. Get rid of the homosexuals, and the order will thrive.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I certainly hope so.

[Da Coyote]

Leftists corrupt everything.

There is only one solution to them.

[PAR35]

and anti-papal dissenters.

The POPE is an anti-papal dissenter? He's a Jesuit.

[Salvation]

Why is this old article even posted. The Jesuits are on the way up. Pray for Pope Francis and for them.

[Slyfox]

Things have changed since this article was written. After the many years of JPII, good young men are answering the call to become priests. Our prayers are being answered.

[old-ager]

What do we expect from a group founded to oppose the Reformation?

[Hayride]

The fire started raging around the time of Vatican II but obviously it had been smoldering for some time before that. As the article states, Ignatian Jesuits soon find themselves on the fringes these days. Well, there’s no way Bergoglio would have ascended so quickly, especially considering his location, if he wasn’t with the arrogant lefty, anti-Rome, social justice crowd.

I’m not being anti-Catholic because there are tons of true believers that are Catholic but I honestly don’t think you could call many of the Jesuits around the time Arrupe was at the top of the pyramid (and apparently now) Bible-believing Christians. “Francis”, as you’d expect, is smart enough to use the language to play the part but I’m highly suspicious of where his heart lies.

[fishtank]

We have a president who is an anti-American dissenter .....

How is that possible?

\sarc

[Biggirl]

Have they been cleaned up I do hope?

[Zionist Conspirator]

Fessio is not a traditional orthodox Catholic. He is a believer in and purveyor of the "new theology" that paved the way for VII (de Lubac, Balthasar, Adrienne von Speyer) which he promotes through Ignatius Publishing.

That Fessio is now considered "conservative" is an indictment of how far left the Catholic Church has drifted.

[piusv]

First of all, he doesn’t go by the name of Pope. He prefers the title of Bishop of Rome. Also, given his latest Apostolic Exhortation, he’s looking to reform the papacy. So in a sense, I’m not so sure what you’re asking is so shocking.

You’re right though, he most definitely is a Jesuit, my friends. I now know why my heart dropped when it was announced that he was a Jesuit.