Jesuits Lash Out Against Professor Who Defended Church’s Doctrine on Marriage

Church Militant ^ | 3/8/18 | Rodney Pelletier

[marshmallow]

Dr. John McAdams is appealing to the Wisconsin Supreme Court after being fired from Marquette University

MILWAUKEE (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities is siding with Marquette University against a professor who lost his job for defending the Catholic teaching on marriage and outing a fellow teacher who shamed and drove a student out of her class.

Doctor John McAdams, previously a tenured professor at Jesuit Catholic Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was fired in 2016 after revealing Cheryl Abbate, a student teacher, harassed a student in her Theory of Ethics philosophy class after an in-class exchange with her on same-sex marriage, telling him "you don't have a right in this class to make homophobic comments."

The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities is siding with Marquette, alleging in its own friend of the court brief that McAdams violated the university's "Jesuit mission." It claims that, like other Jesuit universities, it is "a Catholic, Jesuit university dedicated to serving God by serving our students and contributing to the advancement of knowledge."

The Jesuit school's well-known for promoting progressive-liberal ideology in the name of Catholicism. Jesuit universities have supported abortion, LGBT ideology, same-sex marriage and paganism. In the past, Marquette has hosted a gay prom and promoted "gay Masses."

The brief slams McAdams for focusing "exclusively on his individual rights" and claims he "wants the Court to adopt his views of how this faith-based educational institution should carry out its mission."

It goes on to claim that Marquette's principals are "faith-based" and reflect the "mission and values of Jesuit education" and that Marquette "applied these Jesuit educational values to Dr. McAdams."

[ssfromla]

I can't imagine how you must feel watching your church desecrated like it has been.

You're welcome at any number of Christian churches that speaks the gospel but beware of the ones that are teaching feel good religion. They're as deceitful as the devil

[I want the USA back]

The official teaching of the Church can then be called homophobic. So will the entire Church be arrested for hate speech and thrown in prison?

[dangus]

IT’S A TRAP!!!!

They’ve got the Christian arguing they can’t impose their orthodoxy!!!!!

[Svartalfiar]

This is the truth - there are bad Jesuits and there are good Jesuits.

I would agree with this. I went to Jesuit Dallas, and we didn't really have any issues like this. Closest thing was the new theater teacher from CA my senior year, he destroyed (redid how he wanted it) the theatre program. First order of business - trash everything in the prop closet...

Anyways, it is very secular, only 3-4 priests are actually at/part of the school. We did/do have religious services every Friday, and full Mass I think once a month, plus you could get out of class on holy days of obligation for a short Mass in the chapel. They are big on 'social justice' as a tag line, but that's mostly only borne out through the community service programs. Actual assistance to the Dallas area, none of it was political, except for the Dallas March for Life; though it wasn't mandatory, it was promoted at the school. I would guess several of the teachers were liberal, but they never really brought it into the classroom. One of my history teachers was pretty conservative (yes, history teacher), at least based on how she taught.

[Svartalfiar]

That’s a real dilemma.When I ask what the difference between Orthodox and Catholicism is, the answer comes down to the location of their centers in the Mediterranean, the authority of the pope over bishops, and very slight theological differences that should probably mean little to humans. Am I missing something?

From a technical difference, Yup, that's about it. From a practical, general population perspective, they are the 'same'. Orthodox will be very similar to the Latin Mass from Catholicism - very traditional, reverent, feels like a proper Church. Orthodox does not have any (that I know of) rock band churches like most Catholic ones are. They're not as bad as Baptists, but alot of Catholic services just don't feel like proper church.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I certainly don’t understand how abandoning the Church increases her fidelity.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"Jesuits are nothing less than a Luciferian cult."

That isn't true. There are outstanding faithful Catholic Jesuits truly honoring the Name of Jesus like Fr. Joe Fessio (Ignatius Institute), Fr. Vince Pacwa (EWTN), Fr. James Schall (author, Another Sort of Learning, Fr. Robert J. Spitzer (University Faculty for Life)>

But they are, I think, an embattled minority within a largely corrupt organization. An old friend of mine, the late Fr. Raymond Gawronski, SJ, suffered much from his Jesuit confreres, largely because of his God-pleasing, patient, persistent, priestly genuine Catholicism.

It's interesting, too, that Jorge Bergoglio, SJ, was for a long time more-or-less sidelined by his own Superior General, who considered him psychologically and spiritually unfit for leadership positions. I don't remember who the Superior was at that time. Other FReeper Catholics perhaps can supply the name.

[Salvation]

How can you judge ALL members of an order by this popular diatribe?

There are faith members of the Society of Jesus, too.

[Salvation]

Thanks, I just tried to call them on the same thought. You can’t judge ALL Jesuits with the modern ideas about them.

[Salvation]

Once baptized a Catholic you are always a Catholic. You really can’t convert to anything else since the Baptism Mark and Confirmation Mark are on your soul already.

[Fred Hayek]

There is a remnant in the order, but they are not calling the shots. I have heard that there are some faithful in their seminary working their way to ordination. The best to hope for is that they persevere and filter out any of the garbage fed to them. It’s a long shot.

[Slyfox]

The Jesuits of the School of Salamanca put together the Ratio Studiorum which became the best plan of education the world has ever known.

I recently found out that a small consortium of do-gooders have decided that they need to "update" the Ratio Studiorum, which will at some point effect all of Jesuit education. And not for the better.

[House Atreides]

“How can you judge ALL members of an order by this popular diatribe?

There are faith members of the Society of Jesus, too.”
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Fair and true point. In the phrase “...that most Jesuits are not really Christians...” I shouldn’t have said “most”; I should have instead more accurately said “some” to express my belief.