[ConradofMontferrat]

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.

[old and tired]

Don't kid yourself - there are plenty of liberal Jesuits, although the younger ones I've met have not only been brilliant (all the Jesuits are very smart) but quite orthodox. Several of my children have been Jesuit trained. A couple of my sons went to St. Joseph's Prep for high school. Several of them went to St. Joe's University, which was definitely the most orthodox of all the Jesuit places at which my kids have studied. My two daughters went to Boston College which had both liberal and conservative Jesuits, although the vast majority of the faculty were raging libs.

Unlike many Catholic my age, I can't say that Jesuit training is the best. We had some scary years with our daughters when we thought they were lost to the Faith forever. However, what I can say proudly is that all my Jesuit trained children are practing Catholics today.