[Texan5]

The media doesn’t know much about the Jesuits if they think that-the order was, I think started by a soldier-sort of like Bishop Germanus of Britain in the 5th century, who was a retired general-he was a militant, a questioner and educator, too.

[tioga]

I think the left is hoping for a liberal like some professor from a Jesuit college in America.....well, he is a Jesuit from Latin America, NOT here. Argentina is 97% Catholic...a lot more conservative than American universities.

Twitterworld is upset that Pope Francis opposes abortion and gay marriage......what did the not expect him to be Catholic?

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I had immediately looked up Jesuit when I learned he was one - and my understanding of what I read was they believe in evangilism, education and then saw "civil rights" and hoped it meant the same things we all stand for, not what liberals have co-opted to mean.

I hope you are all pleased with the choice - I was thinking how strange it must be for my Catholic friends to be waiting on the naming of a new Pope. In the past you were reeling from the news of losing your Pope and this time it wasn't a death which deemed a new leader to be named. So the situation is so different this time I assume.