Posted on 06/24/2005 6:22:54 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Joseph Fessio is a million-dollar publisher, the man who runs a university founded on a pizza fortune, a conservative Jesuit who fell out with his superiors and a friend of the Pope. It’s made him one of the US Church’s biggest players.
HE IS a plain priest, neither a cardinal nor a bishop. But the combination of Benedict XVI’s prolific output as an author and the fortune of a pizza billionaire have helped make Father Joseph Fessio, the standard-bearer of Catholic orthodoxy, one of the most powerful men – indeed, perhaps the most powerful man – in the Church in America.
For years Father Fessio has regularly clashed with the superiors of his Jesuit order who do not share his more orthodox, Balthasarian views of faith. But with the elevation as Pope of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, his former tutor and one of the stars of the publishing house which Fr Fessio runs, the priest is even being talked about as the next Archbishop of San Francisco...
(Excerpt) Read more at thetablet.co.uk ...
Whoooo-o-o-o! Incoming!
I'm assuming this means that they consider him aligned with Hans Urs von Balthasar - who was a ressourcement theologian and hardly the most conservative among them.
Siding with Balthasar vs. Kung and Rahner is hardly radical orthodoxy, but is a pretty moderate position.
Like being named Archbishop of Sodom. What would you do all day, negotiate with the Lord? ("If we can come up with 10 real Catholics, will you spare the place?")
He said that he is going to try to build up an entire Catholic city around his university in Naples Florida. I'm not sure how that would be accomplished but he is a very driven man.
I do not understand it. I accept it as a paradox.
All merciful love can thus descend to everyone. We believe that it does so. And now, can we assume that there are souls that remain perpetually closed to such love? As a possibility in principle, this cannot be rejected. In reality, it can become infinitely improbable—precisely through what preparatory grace is capable of effecting in the soul.
(From the above article)
There was an unsuccessful boycott of Domino Pizza a few years ago, by NOW and other feminist groups over Monahan's positions on abortion and other issues.
He mentioned that during his speech.
I think I recall that at first he thought it was going to negatively impact sales but in the end he actually saw a huge increase during the same time.
The guy started out with one repossessed pizza parlor in Ypsilanti, MI around 1960, and he's made a forture. What makes him so admirable is that he is using his money to give back a large measure of the good that this country gave to him.
Can't help but admire him.
Holeeeeeee coooooooooooooow! I hope I live to see that!
Works for me. That's kind of what's happened around EWTN.
I am confused, not an unusual state for me. The article says Fessio made a fortune in the pizza business and that Monahan made a fortune selling Domino's and also founded Ava Marie University. Are they the same person? If not, what pizza brand did/does Fessio own?
I'd like to see that. Especially because Naples is not too far from St. Pete's, which has a bishop who should have been removed yesterday by BXVI.
Fr. Fessio as archbishop of San Fran? Poetic justice if you ask me.
"Joseph Fessio is a million-dollar publisher, the man who runs a university founded on a pizza fortune"furthermore,
"But the combination of Benedict XVI’s prolific output as an author and the fortune of a pizza billionaire have helped make Father Joseph Fessio..."So Tom Monahan, the founder of Domino's Pizza is a billionare. He also founded Ave Maria College in Naples Florida.
Joseph Fessio on the other hand is a million dollar publisher who runs that university. I believe he is the Chancellor of the university.
I probably just confused everyone with my first post. I apologize.
Thanks for the explanation. I was probably the only one confused. I can read reading I just can't read writing. :-)
From the article: "Through a liturgical watchdog group he helped to found called Adoremus, Fr Fessio keeps tabs on what the group considers abuses of the liturgy. In 1997 Adoremus even accused Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles of verging on heresy in a pastoral letter on the Eucharist."
Very interesting indeed.
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