Posted on 03/13/2002 10:27:38 AM PST by father_elijah
SAN FRANCISCO, (CWNews.com) -- Father Joseph Fessio, the Jesuit priest who founded Ignatius Press, has been reassigned to serve as a chaplain in a hospital in Los Angeles.
Although Father Fessio will be allowed to continue his work as a director of Ignatius Press-- which is based in San Francisco-- he has been ordered under obedience not to play a role in Campion College, the new Catholic liberal-arts institution being founded by Ignatius Press.
Father Fessio received his new assignment from the California Jesuit province after a dispute with the administration of the University of San Francisco (USF), a Jesuit institution, over the founding of Campion College.
Last year the USF president, Father Stephen Privett, dismissed the director of the Ignatius Institute, a university program dedicated to liberal-arts learning, using the "Great Books" approach. Critics of that move-- including Father Fessio, who had been a founder of the Ignatius Institute-- charged that USF was stifling an orthodox Catholic program.
Early in 2002, several scholars who had been involved in the Ignatius Institute came together to found a new institution, Campion College, which would be dedicated to the same principles that had originally driven the Ignatius Institute. The prospect of such a direct conflict was not attractive to the USF administration.
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We have "progressive" prelates like Cardinal Law shielding paedophiles while good priests like Father Fessio are treated like garbage.
The Pope needs to take off the kid gloves.
Fr Fessio as a Cardinal -- a thought that appeals to me very much.
Oops, I see that this refers to FESSIO!
--- Clemenza (alumnus of Fordham, "New York's Jesuit University")
Articles such as "Cornel West's Challenge to the Catholic Evasion of Black Theology" tell you where the Jesuits are these days: in the backwaters of Postmodernism, Cultural Marxism (Political Correctness), and Identity Politics.
As a Jesuit "product" formed, thank God, before the Age of Aquarius, I am scandalized by the Jesuits' abandonment of their great intellectual and spiritual legacy (e.g., the Perennial Philosophy of Aristotelean-Thomism) for whatever ultraliberal "philosophy" happens to be blowing in the postmodern wind.
I used to teach at a Jesuit university, but switched to non-Catholic Christian universities where faith permeates the learning environment and where truth is not written as "truth."
If nothing else, this disrespectful treatment of an esteemed Roman Catholic educator is a prima facie violation of the spirit, and most likely the letter, of the Aposotolic Constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae.
I hope like-minded Freepers will use this thread to explore some reasonable options for challenging Fr. Fassio's muzzling. He deserves our support. How can we help him?
-- wideawake (alumnus of Regis, "New York's premier Jesuit high school")
I have attended a Church staffed by the Jesuits about twice a month because the liturgy is always reverent and the sermons are not rife with error,the church is beautiful and the music pretty subdued. This is unlike most of the diocesan parishes. I have contributed a decent amount(as much as I give my own parish)and expressed appreciation to the pastor for all the listed reasons.
Although the arrogant Father Privett will not suffer,I am going to write the pastor and tell him that I will no longer contribute to the church because of the actions of Privett and other Jesuits throughout the country. He will have to deal with it and perhaps he will tell the Provincial that he is losing collections due to the Marxist,"progressivist",homosexual tendencies that so many Jesuits in America display. I will also tell him that I will give my money to the Salvation Army,the Boy Scouts and Catholic organizations that clearly give allegience to the Pope and Magisterium.
I really hate to be mean to this pastor but I think its the only way that the Provincial will get a clue.
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