Posted on 10/25/2016 7:22:46 AM PDT by detective
Excitement is building for Jesuits worldwide as their general congregation to elect a new superior general is quickly approaching this fall. The election presents an important opportunity for them to reflect on the future of the Society of Jesus — and to address serious concerns. Even under a Jesuit Pope, the order suffers from a steady decline in membership, dissent and moral confusion within its ranks, and a widening gulf between many Jesuit universities and the Church.
Perhaps that’s why there has been so much attention lately to the announcement that 20 new Jesuit priests were ordained this year in the United States, Canada and Haiti. That’s good news, with the hope that these new priests will be true Soldiers of Christ and embrace the fullness of Church teaching, like their predecessors of old and some notable giants today.
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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.
The Jesuit problem all started right after the time of the VATICAN II Council.
Once banned (for good reason) they became the nexus of homosexuality in the church and one of the most destructive entities on earth. Read up and you will be shocked at what they’ve been involved with.
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.
Have you read The Jesuits by Malachi Martin?
Are there any books you would recommend?
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.
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