Posted on 01/18/2008 5:35:30 PM PST by wagglebee
ROME, January 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a letter to the Jesuits, gathered at their 35th General Congregation dated January 10, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI has called on the ancient order which has been rocked by scandal to reaffirm their "total adhesion to Catholic doctrine" mentioning specifically the Church's teachings on "sexual morality".
The letter comes in the wake of the homily given by the Pope's representative at the opening of the Assembly on January 7, which bemoaned the infidelity of some in the order to the teachings of the Church. (see coverage: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2008/jan/08010708.html )
"I heartily hope that the present Congregation affirms with clarity the authentic charism of the Founder so as to encourage all Jesuits to promote true and healthy Catholic doctrine," wrote the Pope in a letter addressed to Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits).
The once illustrious Jesuits, the great defenders of faith, have over the last 40 years been steeped in dissident controversy. Jesuit priests have featured prominently in the homosexual priest scandal and Jesuit universities have been hotbeds of dissent on Church teachings especially those on life and family.
The Pope stressed this reaffirmation several times, pointing to specific areas where the Jesuits are known to have caused scandal.
In the letter, the Pope stated: "so as to offer the entire Society of Jesus a clear orientation which might be a support for generous and faithful apostolic dedication, it could prove extremely useful that the General Congregation reaffirm, in the spirit of Saint Ignatius, its own total adhesion to Catholic doctrine, in particular on those neuralgic points which today are strongly attacked by secular culture, as for example the relationship between Christ and religions; some aspects of the theology of liberation; and various points of sexual morality, especially as regards the indissolubility of marriage and the pastoral care of homosexual persons."
See the full letter from the Pope to the Jesuits here:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2008/jan/080118a.html
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My dad went to Loyola - Baltimore - when the Jesuits were conservative to the core in the late 40’s and early 50’s. Sometime in the 60-70’s, Leftist nonsense took over.
Why is the pope encouraging a Protestant organization - the Jesuits - to adhere to Catholic beliefs?
Many are liberal Protestants at best.
Time for a house-cleaning in the Society of Jesus. Long past time, really.
Pope Benedict is really laying it on the line for them, isn’t he?
My daughter's confessor up at college is probably pushing 90. But he's a good man and a holy priest.
Why doesn’t he just fire the ones he knows are out of line?
The 2008 Men’s Catholic Conference is being held at Boston College this year. It would have been nice if El Papa came to it.
The Jesuits are a religious order and their internal discipline is supposed to be up to them, although Rome has forbidden one or two of them to teach in recent years. You may not be aware of this, but the Jesuit order takes a special vow of loyalty to the Pope.
We can all see how much they honor that vow!
They just elected a new head this weekend, and unfortunately, it seems like it’s going to be more of the same. The new one is a Spaniard who has taught in Asia for decades and seems to be a thoroughoing syncretist. I hope I’m wrong, but it looks to me like the Jesuits will be headed on a collision course with Rome. Of course, the Pope can always suppress the order...some people have wondered if it may come to this sometime in the not too distant future.
Do I recall correctly that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a Jesuit?
That's not a very nice thing to say about Protestants.
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That's not a very nice thing to say about Protestants.
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Copy-n-paste works better when you actually "copy" first.
I'm trying to copy that remark about Jesuits being a "Protestant Organization".
I went to a Jesuit prep school in Brooklyn in the early 60's......they had us swim nude in the pool....didn't undertand at the time why the pool had underwater windows.
I guess by then they weren't so conservative.
Prayers that the Jesuits will reform their ways.
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