[jrherreid]

We were just passing this story around the office. Pretty good, but they don't mention that Albert Jonsen has been instructed by the Vatican not to teach philosophy.

[Cicero]

It's certainly disingenuous to say that Jonsen will not be teaching medical ethics. He will be teaching Aristotle, Plato, and the Bible, and a dissident could do plenty of mischief with those works, which should be at the very foundation of a good Catholic education.

This isn't a new story for Catholics, but it's interesting that the secular press is picking it up.

And, no, the Pope can't do anything about it. He tried once to straighten out the Jesuit order, removing their head and putting a caretaker in his place for a while, but it seems that they didn't want to be straightened out. You can't force a bunch of high-order intellectuals to change their ways, you have to persuade them. The sad result is that the Jesuit order and its universities are going steadily down the tubes. But the Church will survive, and other religious orders and colleges will take their place.

[Dumb_Ox]

``They are trying to get me out of the way,'' Fessio said. ``Why else would they exile me? I am highly educated. I'm in the prime of my life. I have so much more to contribute than to minister to the sick.''

This sounds very unlike Fr. Fessio; wasn't he far more obedient and humble in a personal statement? Did a lazy reporter misquote him?