Posted on 10/21/2013 2:47:05 PM PDT by naturalman1975
FATHER Emmet Costello finally passed away last week, aged 89, shortly after the former Jesuit student Bill Shorten had become Opposition Leader. The frail priest had been rallying and relapsing for months. Some said that he was determined to cling to life until he could see a protege of his become prime minister. Others said that he wanted to see both the prime ministership and its alternative claimed for the Jesuits.
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Deep down, he was fiercely proud of the Jesuits' impact on the world at large. The Jesuits, he was convinced, had been established to be the church's SAS: fighting for their faith way behind secularist lines, in the media, academe and business. Other Jesuits may have given up the struggle and retreated to a religious ghetto or embraced a social gospel that made them virtually indistinguishable from any other well-meaning social reformer. Not Emmet.
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On the other hand, not having a family of his own meant that everyone who needed his help could become his family. Emmet had a spiritual family, if you like, numbering in the tens of thousands. We are all the poorer for his passing but so much the richer for his living.
Tony Abbott is Prime Minister of Australia and was taught by Emmet Costello at St Ignatius' College, Riverview.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...
Tony Abbott, Prime Minister and Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia (St Ignatius' College, Riverview, New South Wales)
Joe Hockey, Treasurer (St Aloysius' College, Milson's Point, New South Wales)
Barnaby Joyce, Minister for Agriculture and Deputy Leader of the National Party of Australia (St Ignatius' College, Riverview, New South Wales)
Christopher Pyne, Minister for Education and Leader of the House of Representatives (St Ignatius' College, Adelaide, South Australia).
In addition, the newly elected Leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition, Bill Shorten, was educated by the Jesuits at Xavier College, Kew, in Victoria.
Ooooh, all of four men. How many Catholics sit on the US Supreme Court today?
So, is this good or bad? Are they part of the post-Christian, secularist-sensualist, culturally corrupt Zeitgeist-- or do they represent the resisters, the defenders of truth, the Catholic wing of the Catholic Church ?
Four out of twenty from schools run by an order educating less than 1% of Australians. It’s significant.
Australian Jesuits are like the others - a mixture.
But having worked in one of the Jesuit schools for a number of years, and coming to know quite a few of them, the ones in the schools tend to be conservatives both religiously and politically - those who get involved in the ‘social justice’ areas, tend to be the ones who move to the left politically, and some of them also seem to move away from the teachings of the Church into their own interpretations.
Father Emmett Costello SJ was a good, decent, man of God, who did his best to create more like himself, men for others.
Good to hear that.
“Ooooh, all of four men. How many Catholics sit on the US Supreme Court today?”
As many as the Protestant Presidents wanted to nominate.
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Parliament to debate Australian gay marriage bill
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I thought that was relevant here.
I was looking through an issue of Jesuit Magazine some years ago. There was an article about the alumni of one of the Jesuit universities, who were now working on Capitol Hill. Some were working for Repubs and some for Democrats. In other words, half of them were working for pro-abortion members of Congress. The article spoke about all them in equally glowing terms.
The Jesuits are one of our leading pro-abortion religious orders. The 28 Jesuit universities have been the most prominent and consistent holdouts against the bishops’ policy of not giving honors to pro-abortion public figures.
“Ooooh, all of four men. How many Catholics sit on the US Supreme Court today?”
As many as the Protestant Presidents wanted to nominate.
Touche!!!!!!!!!!!
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