Posted on 11/23/2015 3:35:33 PM PST by detective
John McAdams remains in professional limbo at his Jesuit school.
The long-time Marquette University political science professor at the center of one of the most controversial academic freedom cases in higher education continues to wait for a faculty hearing committee's decision on his professional fate.
Marquette has said it intends to fire McAdams because of his blog post a little over a year ago criticizing a student teacher for prohibiting a philosophy student from sharing his opposition to same-sex marriage in the class.
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Not Catholic, Jesuit.
Actually if you read the tenured professor’s blog post he is talking about free and open discussion and not technically opposing “gay marriage.”
A Catholic friend of mine who is familiar with the Jesuits describes them as aging sodomites using church fund to pay for their “lifestyle”, which includes teens.
“Not Catholic, Jesuit.”
Pope Francis is a Jesuit.
Your point? It is possible to be a Jesuit and a Catholic.
Pope Francis is a Jesuit.
Exactly.
All Jesuits are Catholic, including Pope Francis.
It is not possible to be a Jesuit and not a Catholic.
Well, I guess we need to remove 4 US supreme court justices.
“It is possible to be a Jesuit and a Catholic.”
Probably, but (at least these days) not easily. A few hundred years ago: different story.
All Jesuits are Catholic, including Pope Francis.
It is not possible to be a Jesuit and not a Catholic.
For individuals, it comes down to a matter of definitions, but to start out with Marquette, Marquette is an institution governed by a board of governors which includes six Jesuits and 26 laymen who are charged with, among other things, guarding the school’s Catholic identity. They include the head coach of the Clippers, who I some how doubt is Catholic. http://www.marquette.edu/leadership/trustees.php
Also included is Rev. Kevin F. O’Brien, S.J. , Vice President for Mission and Ministry, Georgetown University
When it comes to individuals, people who are excommunicated are Catholic in only a tengential sense. While the Church doesn’t have many declared excommunications, Canon Law still preserves the category of Latae Sententiae (automatic, undeclared) excommunications for, among other things, heresy and schism. While there are a number of ways to commit the crime and not incur the penalty, the two big ones are stupidity and ignorance, which is hard for Jesuits to pull off. Being excommunicated, latae sententiae or other wise, doesn’t automatically affect one’s relationship to an order.
It is true that it is not possible to start down the path of being a Jesuit without demonstrating some sort of connection to the Catholic Church, but after that, all bets are off.
Well, I guess we need to remove 4 US supreme court justices.
Only if we turn the Supreme Court over to the Jesuits.
I am sorry to say you are probably right. I used Pope Francis as an example because it is difficult to ascertain if he is a sincere Catholic.
I used Pope Francis as an example because it is difficult to ascertain if he is a sincere Catholic.
You are probably right, but in that department I try to spend most of my energy reminding myself that it is not my job to ascertain if he is a sincere Catholic, and much of the rest of it thanking God that he doesn not turn out encyclicals at the clip of Leo XIII or Pius Xii.
He was speaking of American Jesuits, which I should have mentioned.
I suspect that it would be true for Jesuits throughout the first world.
Yep.
But probably true anywhere there was “easy prey”.
The saga of Prof. McAdams and Marquette U continues.
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