But over the past several decades the order has experienced a steep decline in membership.
The order has also been infiltrated by Communists, homosexuals and a variety of evil people.
That is true. The diocese that I belong to had a Jesuit bishop. Given a chance he would espouse "income equality and social justice". I mentioned to another priest, who was not an order priest, that what the bishop was promoting came right out of Carl Marx's philosophy. Apparently the word got back and that foolishness stopped.
Also, a number of years ago a Jesuit priest for our Diocese retired and went to Mexico to live. Shortly thereafter he was found murdered at a beach.
Having been raised as a Catholic, I never thought there would come a day when I would feel that Jesuits were slime and the big Catholic universities would cover up their religious icons for a Muslim eunuch president.
They may have done good work in the past, but now they primarily seem to be trying to push heterodoxy and left wing politics and economics. Time for their dissolution again, IMHO.
The Jesuits have become one of the most effective pro-abortion organizations in the U.S., and elsewhere.
A group of male prostitutes used to (used to?) fly from city to city in the New England Province, making a never-ending circuit of the Jesuit universities.
The most annoying thing in this article is the repeated use of the word “crisis” in reference to the disappearance of the Jesuits. Nothing could be further from a “crisis.” It is something to be hoped for.
One of the better books I’ve read on the subject was “The Jesuits” by Malachi Martin. Though written back in ‘88, it’s still relevant in explaining how the Jesuits went off track and why.
From reading the book, I got the feeling that John Paul II came very close to asking them to disband because of their theological deviances and insubordination to the Papacy. John Paul I, had he not died so early in his reign, sounded like he would have dealt with the Jesuits similiarly.