Francis will go down in history as the first, and only, Jesuit pope. He is nothing like the Jesuit priests I encountered during my 4 years at Gonzaga, to include Fr. Bob Spitzer. He graduated from GU two years before I did, a remarkable and absolutely brilliant man.
Wow. When did you go to Gonzaga? I went to Santa Clara, undergraduate and graduate, in the 80s. All
But to a man they were all left wing hacks
Spitzers Universe, clear headed thinking right there.
Fr. Spitzer, whom I met when he was president of Gonzaga, was too Catholic for the Jesuits and was secretly forced out of the university. Fortunately for him and us, he is creative and brilliant enough that he moved up to better things.