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Have you ever met a Jesuit priest that was not part of the radical left? It was not that long ago that Pope John Paul almost shut the order down. They were radical proponents of liberation theology in South America. They were actually making terrorists into saints. Where were the Jesuits for the eight years when Bush was POTUS?

“Have you ever met a Jesuit priest that was not part of the radical left?”

Yes. He is in the New York Province, and usually explains himself as “Yes, I’m the conservative Jesuit in New York.”

I have a funny story about him. When our son was invited for an admissions interview at an all-scholarship Jesuit high school in NYC, I asked him if he was ready to discuss a favorite book with the interviewer.

He said, “Yeah,Dad, it’s called ‘Marine Sniper’ it’s the story of GySgt Carlos Hathcock.”

I said, “Whoa! The Jesuits are a bunch of lefties - can’t you discuss some other book?” (He chose something else.)

Recounting this story to the Jesuit in question, he started laughing and said, “’Marine Sniper’? That’s one of my favorite books!” He then grabbed it off his bookshelf to show me.

However, I’m afraid he is the exception that proves the rule:

Q. Why are the Jesuits periodically suppressed by the Pope?

A. Because they need it.

Have you ever met a Jesuit priest that was not part of the radical left?

Yes I have.
I was educated by sevral dozen of them.
And I never felt the pressure of leftism or rightism. Of course, my recent (last 30 years or so) exposure to my alma materes have suggested a marked list to port.