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To: vladimir998

What you say is true of the established Jesuit universities. I teach at one of them.

But then you have Fr. Fessio’s Campion Institute at the U. of San Francisco. The liberals shut it down but it was a Jesuit-founded faithfully Catholic institute.

Your mistake is in assuming that a newly founded institute that has a tiny footprint in an overwhelmingly non-Catholic country would be like centuries-old established Jesuit schools elsewhere. On what basis can one assume that.

What if, just if, some faithful Jesuits decided to found a small institute in a country where Catholicism is a tiny minority but growing and growing largely in a faithfully Catholic way, attracting converts precisely because it is faithfully Christian whereas the Lutheran establishment has gone off the deep end,

what if, in those circumstances, faithful Jesuits established a school? Would it look like a Fordham or a U. of San Frencisco? Of course not.

Yet that’s what you and others are doing—extrapolating from what you know about Jesuit universities elsewhere to this tiny institute, with no evidentiary basis whatsoever, just raw prejudice and presupposition.

That’s called rash judgment. And it’s wrong. Give it up. Suspend your judgment until you have evidence one way or another. That’s what I’m doing.


18 posted on 09/02/2010 8:38:11 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: Houghton M.

No, what you’re not suspending your judgment. It seems more like wishful thinking. As I said, I hope it is orthodox. But since there isn’t a single orthodox Jesuit institution of higher learning in the world today - by reputation - I see no reason to not see the evidence for what it is: too many women faculty (almost all liberals in Sweden), faculty who love the Lutheran sect of Sweden, etc.

The burden of evidence is on you.


19 posted on 09/02/2010 10:24:05 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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