Priest’s Book Tells Sad Tale of Jesuits’ Abortion Complicity in the US

National Catholic Register ^ | January 7, 2022 | Father Raymond J. de Souza

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Priest’s Book Tells Sad Tale of Jesuits’ Abortion Complicity in the US

COMMENTARY: The late Jesuit Father Paul Mankowski knew how badly some of his brother priests and his superiors had betrayed the Society of Jesus.

Need a prominent cleric to give cover to Catholic politicians who vote to preserve and expand abortion access? For more than 50 years, the Jesuits have had a man at the ready. It is a grave scandal in one of the Church’s most venerable orders.

Jesuit Father Pat Conroy, who served as chaplain of the House of Representatives from May 2011 to January 2021, gave an interview published this week in The Washington Post, in which he defended Catholic politicians who promote abortion access. He went so far as to cite St. Thomas Aquinas on conscience to defend his position, which is both embarrassing and beneath the dignity of a proper Jesuit formation.

For those with longer memories, the idea of a prominent Jesuit from the House of Representatives defending permissive abortion laws is not new. Father Conroy is a rather low-budget version of the late Jesuit Father Robert Drinan, but he remains a standard-bearer for what his brethren are wont to call “the Jesuit tradition.” 

It was 15 years ago this week that Father Drinan was back in the spotlight. Recall the circumstances. In early 2007, Nancy Pelosi became the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives, the capstone to a remarkable political career. That she is Speaker again 15 years later is further evidence of the formidable political force she remains.

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After Roe v. Wade in 1973, he (Drinan) defended the decision and was a reliable vote in favor of expanding the abortion license, including taxpayer funding, for the duration of his congressional service.

The apostate jesuits have not changed:

Six months into his papacy, Pope Francis sent shock waves through the Roman Catholic church on Thursday with the publication of his remarks that the church had grown “obsessed” with abortion, gay marriage and contraception, and that he had chosen not to talk about those issues despite recriminations from critics.

Pope Says Church Is ‘Obsessed’ With Gays, Abortion and Birth Control

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Jesuit/Abortion Ping

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The road to Hell is paved with the skulls of priests.

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Sounds like something from an Alberto Rivera book, Charles Chiniqay also.

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And there's this:

SONS OF PERDITION: HOW CERTAIN CATHOLIC PRIESTS TURNED THE KENNEDYS PRO-ABORTION

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It is impossible that scandals not come. But woe to those by whom they come.

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Sucking up to Kennedy $$. RCINC is the oldest, most profitable multinational corporation on the planet

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I feel sorry for the earnest true believers who want to enter the priesthood, only to have it gradually dawn on them that not everyone in the priesthood is a true believer.