Posted on 04/24/2019 6:03:57 PM PDT by marshmallow
The faith of the longtime Georgetown professor informed his intellectual work, as his intellect refined his faith.
The most distinguished son of Pocahontas, Iowa, Father James V. Schall, S.J., died at age 91 on April 17, just as Lent 2019 was drawing to a close and Easter was visible on the horizon.
Father Schall was what’s usually referred to as an “old-school Jesuit” — meaning (to my mind) that he was the kind of Jesuit St. Ignatius Loyola imagined when he founded the Society of Jesus in the 16th century. Jim Schall was both a man of rock-solid Catholic faith and a first-rate intellectual, a distinguished political philosopher at home with political theory from Plato through the moderns. His faith informed his intellectual work, as his intellect refined his faith. He was an exceptionally gifted teacher; before he was put out to pasture by Jesuit superiors who didn’t seem to grasp what a magnet he was for the students they ought to be recruiting, his last lecture at Georgetown University was attended by hundreds, who spilled out of venerable Gaston Hall into the surrounding corridors. He was a devoted priest, a masterful spiritual director, and a counselor who encouraged his students to think vocationally, whether about the priesthood or consecrated religious life, marriage, or their professional careers.
He was also an ascetic, whom self-denial, religious disciplines, and — in his last decade, illness — had whittled down, so that in his eighties he looked something like a lean, mean pirate in a Roman collar (which he always wore). But there was no meanness in the man, only a sweetness of temperament wed to a bracing, unblinking honesty about the state of the Church, the world, and the Society to which he had given his life. His suffering from cancer and his......
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You didn't have to be a Catholic to enjoy his fine intellect.
His Another Sort of Learning is one of my favorite books.
I had a Jesuit mentor from same era and same province as Fr. Schall for 22 years. They are and were magnificent. Those types only however.
They humble you with their learning, and spirituality and immense charity.
One of my favorite professors. The world will miss him, Georgetown could sure use him, it has been taken over by leftists.
I know that the Jesuits have that issue and every other
organization in the Church and the Boy Scouts and on and on. They flock to where others gather.
We have a sexual Revolution problem in the entire West. Europe the same as you know.
The problem with the Catholic Church is they will not admit it nor clean out the gay swamp
The Church would not admit the debauchery of the priests and Cardinals in Martin Luther’s time and he was shocked when he went to Rome. Gotta wonder if that was a motivation for his tragic leaving of the Church.
Fr. Schall was brilliant and faithful, and I think a lot of us will miss him. He was writing dazzling, clear stuff almost until the very end. An amazing person.
A lot of Jesuits were like him. St Ignatius Loyola wanted a corps of brilliant, educated men like him, even though Ignatius himself had been a military man from Pais Vasco and had had to go to Paris and sit with children to learn Latin so he could study for the priesthood.
But the Jesuits have always had a problem with pride, and many recent Jesuits - ranging from Teilhard de Chardin to James Martin to Jorge Bergoglio (a stupid man who got into the order at a low point and says theology makes his head hurt) - seem to believe that they are above the Faith and they know better. And they have done enormous damage to the Church.
Sorry to hear this!
Our family was lucky enough to become close to an old school Jesuit, now in his 90’s; he was formed in Poughkeepsie, now the Culinary Institute (sadly). We met him when he was stationed in Auriesville; since Bergoglio, the Martyrs Shrine is no longer owned by the Society of Jesus and there are no Jesuits in residence.
This priest is an absolute treasure, currently he is in retirement at Fordham.
I wish all Jesuits still had the old school formation!!!
May his soul and all the souls of the faith depaprted, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
RIP.
The problem is with bigoted anti-Catholic pieces of shit like you who insult the memory of a great man.
I didn’t insult him just all homo Jesuit s who destroyed won s great order. Oh eight years of SoN educat
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