Statement from the Jesuits Regarding Fr. James Martin’s New Book, “Building a Bridge”

Jesuits ^ | September 16, 2017 | John Cecero, SJ /Timothy Kesicki, SJ

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Father James Martin, SJ, is a faithful priest, best-selling writer, and a respected member of the editorial staff at the Jesuit-run America Media.

His most recent book, “Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity,” is an important publication for our Church and the people of God to whom we minister. All of Father Martin’s books are written with the full consent of his religious superiors and in conformity with Catholic Church publishing guidelines. “Building a Bridge,” which was reviewed by the Censor Librorum of the USA Northeast Province of the Society of Jesus, received an Imprimi Potest from Fr. Martin’s provincial, declaring its suitability for publication.

Fr. Martin is a meaningful voice in our Church both in the United States and throughout the world. His recent appointment as a consultant to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications affirms the power of his work, which is a tremendous tool for both preaching the Gospel and for evangelization.

Very Reverend John Cecero, SJ                             Very Reverend Timothy Kesicki, SJ
Provincial, USA Northeast Province Jesuits            President, Jesuit Conference of Canada and the U.S.

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Martin is obviously not an atypical Jesuit in Francischurch.

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About Fr. Martin’s book

[marktwain]

It would be interesting to know what the book recommends.

Love the sinner, hate the sin.

[Neoliberalnot]

One would think the infiltration of the queers into the priesthood would have taught a lesson to the church. How short their memories.

[rwilson99]

Nope...

To love the sinner thou shalt celebrate the sin... or be condemned as a judgmental wretch of a deplorable.

[montag813]

Jesuits are evil.

[utahagen]

Please don’t blame the entire Church for the Jesuits. The Jesuits have devolved. The order is moribund, as it richly deserves to be.

[Gay State Conservative]

The only “relationship” that real Catholics (real *Christians*,actually) want with “LGBT” is to clearly,and repeatedly,remind them that their lives feature grievously sinful acts and a life of no sex is,it would seem,the only moral path open to them.

[BlessedBeGod]

...and a life of no sex is,it would seem,the only moral path open to them.

...which is the only moral path open to anyone who isn't married, heterosexual or homosexual. So, it's consistent, and not discrimination against them.

[HLPhat]

“This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon’s despotism or ideology. It has obstructed the progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.”

{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, November 4, 1816. Adams wrote an anonymous 4 volume work on the destructive history of the Jesuits}

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Back then, the Jesuits were good Catholics.

As far as John Adams, he was a both a racial and a religious bigot:

“Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?”

[HLPhat]

Ba’alshyte.

[Jim Noble]

Not sure it's a new problem

[HLPhat]

“Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?”

 

Got ETERNAL HOSTILITY?

 

 

 

"...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;

 

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 that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "

 

"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"

--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786

https://www.google.com/webhp?#q=truth%20is%20great%20and%20will%20prevail%20if%20left%20to%20herself

 

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Sorry. I don’t respond to weird fanatics.

Dominus tecum.

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“in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination.”
—Thomas Jefferson

MAGA!

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3586606/posts?page=15#15

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This ain’t Rome.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

It troubles me deeply that the very reverend John Cecero would put his name in favor of father James Martin’s book.
The work is a piece of trash and should not be condoned, especially given what homosexuals have done to the church with the abuse of young boys. Please reconsider!

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It troubles me deeply that the very reverend John Cecero would put his name in favor of father James Martin’s book.

It troubles me also, but it doesn't surprise me. Cecero, Martin, and Martin's sponsor, Pope Francis, are all Jesuits.