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May the Jesuits be blessed, once again, with saints such as St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Francis Xavier.
Great story! Our priest told everybody the story at Mass today. It’s amazing when you think what these men did to spread the Gospel.
Great story! Our priest told everybody the story at Mass today. It’s amazing when you think what these men did to spread the Gospel.
I say this as the graduate of a Jesuit University: the Jesuits have gone straight downhill in the past century. There is no way I would ever send my children to a Jesuit school.
It is very strange what has happened to the Jesuit order. I have read a number of books about the early days, and they were extraordinary. St. Francis Xavier, notably, but also many of the other early Jesuits.
And I have known some wonderful Jesuits in my youth. But something happened, and they went off the rails. Not the first time, of course, that a religious order has done so, and has had to be replaced by a reformed order. Indeed, Fr. Benedict Groeschel suggests in an essay that once things have gone that far, reform usually comes from outside, with a new reformed order that replaces the old one.
Sad to think. The Jesuits had a special vow of obedience to serve the Pope, and most of them now seem to break it every day.
Boy, talk about two POWERHOUSES of our beloved church!
Salvation,
Thank you for posting that. St. Francis Xavier is my patron saint. I strive to emulate him.
I read Malachi Martin’s “The Jesuits” some years ago. Is the order still steeped in liberation theology?
Best Regards