[johniegrad]

Thanks for the tips.

One retreat house that looked interesting to me was in England affiliated with the SSPX. I'd certainly want to look further into that before making a decision for all the obvious reasons. However, I thought that they might be a tad more serious about following the form and content of the Exercises.

[Saint Athanasius]

I would avoid the SSPX though... they are not in line with the Church.

[StAthanasiustheGreat]

Freshman Retreat was a great experience, reawakened my faith, while at the same time it was a lot of the mushy Christianity/Catholicism that Jesuits are famous for. Sophomore year the retreat was even worse, the liberation theology became more apparent and had a couple hours devoted to the goodness of socialism, etc. Junior year I went on the famous Kairos Retreat. It was a powerful retreat, very emotional though and a little mushy at times in retrospect. However, for me it came at a good time, and I got a lot out of it.

In general, now, having been away from Jesuit schooling for two years, I would say stay away from the Jesuits as much as possible. I do not care for their theology, which at times tends to be very universalistic and at times delves into apostasy. Then again, I reacted strongly to the Jesuits, instead of becoming more like them, I went in the opposite direction.

God Bless