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To: livius
This is just another attack on Catholics.

I had the Jesuits for high school. My wife, who is from a completely different part of the county than I am, had the Ursulines and my sister the Sisters of Mercy. My mother-in-law is a 30-year veteran teacher within her diocese's parochial school system.

While some specific Catholic parishes and dioceses are definitely conservative, our experiences are with a Catholic Church that is very much into Social Justice, Liberation Theology and (with the exception of abortion) has a decidedly Liberal Ideology.
37 posted on 11/12/2009 4:48:16 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter

It really depends on the diocese. Some bishops are excellent, others are very liberal leftovers from the 70s who persecute their good priests and encourage heterodox theology. They are either retiring or being shuffled away by this Pope, so things will be a lot better in the future.

In the Church as everywhere else, there was a crisis in authority in the 60s and 70s and the bad bishops and priests felt they didn’t have to adhere to anything they didn’t like or that made them unpopular (opposition to birth control, for example). That is being corrected now.

As for the Jesuits and the Ursulines, there was also a crisis in the major religious orders, and most of the big ones are going belly up because they lost their faith and their calling. There actually are some good Jesuits, although they’re in the minority, but I’m not sure about the Ursulines. In many ways, the women’s orders were hit harder (because of a minunderstood feminism) so many of the old ones are dying out, although lots of new, good ones are springing up.


42 posted on 11/12/2009 5:18:44 AM PST by livius
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