Posted on 01/08/2014 6:51:58 PM PST by marshmallow
A popular U.S. Catholic priest and author known for his peace writings and some 75 arrests for civil disobedience actions across the country has been dismissed from the international Jesuit religious order, which says he was "obstinately disobedient" to its directives.
Removal of Fr. John Dear caps 32 years in the order for the priest, who has been known for protesting a wide range of issues, including U.S. policies on Latin America, nuclear weapons development, and the cooperation of Jesuit educational institutions with American military recruiting programs such as the ROTC.
The dismissal also raises the specter of Pope Francis, the first head of the Catholic church to belong to the Jesuit order, having to confirm the dismissal of one of the order's members.
Dear, a longtime NCR columnist, writes about the dismissal in his weekly column, posted Tuesday. He writes that he is leaving "with a heavy heart ... because the Society of Jesus in the U.S. has changed so much since I entered in 1982 and because my Jesuit superiors have tried so hard over the decades to stop my work for peace."
Dear also made available to NCR copies of letters from both the Jesuit headquarters in Rome and the Vatican congregation responsible for matters concerning religious life, notifying him of his dismissal. The specific charge against Dear listed in the documents is his refusal to live in a Jesuit community in Baltimore.
(Excerpt) Read more at ucanews.com ...
Too many American Jesuits have gone over to the Dark Side of Marxism. Drinan, Bourgeoise, Bill Davis, etc. Liberation Theology was their God, not the God of the bible.
Time for the Pope to clean house.
“...and because my Jesuit superiors have tried so hard over the decades to stop my work for peace.”
I suspect that “peace” isn’t really what he was working for...
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Thanks marshmallow, more on John Dear:
https://www.commondreams.org/john-dear
http://www.fatherjohndear.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LBcmM6Ib6A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvXvNO_pKsM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlHn6FJ0GNw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4TonpaBrDI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aenc8JUDTEg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB61gQc8Z_I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dear
Hopefully, he has friends or relatives who know him and can take him in.
Stay tuned.
who cares? he is a liberal turd!
“A disaster for the Jesuit. Especially so in that he’s been a priest for 32 years and there’s not many places he can go because of his age.”
He should have thought about that years ago when he decided to be a leftist activist. You reap what you sow.
You're right in thinking that, but people get wiser as they get older; so please forgive me for thinking that you're not quite fifty yet.
The hardest lessons come late.
Have a nice day.
The Jesuits are pretty unique in that they take an oath of absolute obedience to the Pope, and are in many ways structured like a military organization with a top down command structure (St Ignatius of Loyola having been a soldier before founding the order).
This guy knew that, it would have been beaten into his head as a Scholastic. The only one responsible for him breaking his oath is ... himself.
Given the little I know about Pope Francis, I'd predict his not comfirming the dismissal.
Stay tuned.
he should not have been dismissed....nor reeducated....various stances on various subjects should not be treated with such severity...there are limits, of course, on which subjects individuals can express their opinions.Abortion, nope, divinity of Christ, nope, assumption of Mary, nope, but American socialist opinions...of course not. Priests are human beings just like anyone else and they have various opinions...as long as they don’t oppose official Catholic teaching, I don’t care what they think.
“You reap what you sow.
You’re right in thinking that, but people get wiser as they get older; so please forgive me for thinking that you’re not quite fifty yet.
The hardest lessons come late.”
Thanks for the inadvertent compliment, lol. I’m 67. So 50 looks real good to me.
Me too, gotta smile about that.
As Sinatra would say ... Thank's Kid.
When it comes to "near heresy" religious matters, some facts take time to sink in. One for-instance is flat-Earth thinking; and that thinking had Galileo under Catholic house arrest for some time.
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