[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis Gives Another Revealing Interview to His Fellow Jesuits

The American Spectator ^ | June 18, 2022 | George Neumayr

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Pope Francis Gives Another Revealing Interview to His Fellow Jesuits

Pope Francis, who belongs to the Jesuit order, periodically meets with Jesuit magazine editors to discuss the direction of the Church. These interviews are invariably newsworthy. In 2013, he made headlines after telling Jesuit editors that the “dogmatic and moral teachings of the Church are not all equivalent” and that “pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently.” He gave a similarly significant interview to Jesuit editors last month, telling them that the Church needs to reject “restorationism.”

“The number of groups of ‘restorers’ – for example, in the United States there are many – is significant,” he said. He suggested that the conflicts within the Jesuit order after Vatican II mirror today’s conflicts. He praised Pedro Arrupe, the head of the Jesuit order during a period of liberal ferment from 1965 to 1983, for moving it in a progressive direction.

“You were not yet born, but I witnessed in 1974 the ordeal of Father General Pedro Arrupe during the 32nd General Congregation,” he said. “At that time there was a conservative reaction to block the prophetic voice of Arrupe! Today for us that General is a saint, but he had to endure many attacks. He was courageous because he dared to take the step.” (The 32nd General Congregation was a worldwide gathering of Jesuits in Rome.)

Arrupe played an important role in the pope’s rise within the Jesuit order. Arrupe made him a provincial in Argentina at the age of 36.

The “conservative reaction” against Arrupe to which the pope refers came from Spanish Jesuits. “A Jesuit from the province of Loyola was particularly aggressive toward Fr. Arrupe,” he told the Jesuit editors.

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“Why am I telling you this story? To make you understand what the post-conciliar period was like. This is happening again, especially with the traditionalists.” The Church, he said, “must return to Arrupe: he is a light from that moment that illuminates us all.” The Church, he said, “must return to Arrupe: he is a light from that moment that illuminates us all.”

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Apostate Jesuits Ping

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The Church needs to reject “restorationism.”

Which it must if it is to create the new progressive utopia. I know, how about a trany pope to speed things along.

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Is Arrupe that pedo convicted of child molesting in SAmerica, the one this pope defended? No? Imagine my surprise.

If he moved the church towards progressiveness, then he eventually is the same sort of monster.

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The Jesuit order has devolved into an unspeakable, perverse cabal.

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Must return to Arrupe?? How about, must return to Jesus Christ?