I hope I’m wrong, but I’ve been reading the Spanish press this morning and the liberals are ecstatic. They believe Fr. Nicolas is the spiritual heir of Arrupe and will “take on the Vatican.” He is apparently less abrasive in his manner, which is why he has been able to maintain a low profile for so long, but now Spanish commentators are saying he was considered the most “progressive” candidate the Jesuits could have chosen.
Judging from what he has written, he is a syncretist, one-world-religion type of guy, like many clergy in the Asian church, and of course socially left-wing, although without being into armed revolution like his Latin American “liberation theology” Jesuit peers. We shall see, but it certainly doesn’t look good right now.
OK< thanks, you answered my question. I had hopes.
Appears the Jesuits still need prayers.
>> I hope I’m wrong, but I’ve been reading the Spanish press this morning and the liberals are ecstatic. They believe Fr. Nicolas is the spiritual heir of Arrupe and will “take on the Vatican.” <<
Than he is simply irrelevant. Which is sad. The only question is whether someone had been chosen who could rescue the Jesuits from the brink of extinction. In this case, there are almost no distinctions among bland, profoundly hostile, or anything less than heroic. No-one will care what a few thousand dying octogenarian limpwrists. And as much as I have known some wonderful Jesuits, that’s what their order will be typified by.