[naturalman1975]

A fairly remarkable outcome of Australia's recent election is the number of men educated by the Jesuits who are now occupying leading positions in the Australian government. In the Cabinet, which only has twenty members, there are four such men.

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.

[Alex Murphy]

A fairly remarkable outcome of Australia's recent election is the number of men educated by the Jesuits who are now occupying leading positions in the Australian government. In the Cabinet, which only has twenty members, there are four such men.

Ooooh, all of four men. How many Catholics sit on the US Supreme Court today?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Jesuits, as we all know, can go either way.

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 ?

[Arthur McGowan]

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.