[Cicero]

It's certainly disingenuous to say that Jonsen will not be teaching medical ethics. He will be teaching Aristotle, Plato, and the Bible, and a dissident could do plenty of mischief with those works, which should be at the very foundation of a good Catholic education.

This isn't a new story for Catholics, but it's interesting that the secular press is picking it up.

And, no, the Pope can't do anything about it. He tried once to straighten out the Jesuit order, removing their head and putting a caretaker in his place for a while, but it seems that they didn't want to be straightened out. You can't force a bunch of high-order intellectuals to change their ways, you have to persuade them. The sad result is that the Jesuit order and its universities are going steadily down the tubes. But the Church will survive, and other religious orders and colleges will take their place.

[livius]

"... bunch of high-order intellectuals ..."

Alas, I think the Jebbies haven't merited this title for at least 25 years.

They went through a major dumbing-down. The only intellectuals left are folks like Fr. Fessio and Fr. Cornelius Buckley, both of whom have been exiled to the same old-age home in SoCal. Maybe the rest of the idiots felt threatened.