tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20186500333505245692024-03-19T06:07:03.402-07:00Jesuit WatchRELIGION, n.
A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.<br>
Ambrose Bierce, Devil’s Dictionarysfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-58358735896753756662008-01-26T13:51:00.000-08:002008-01-27T11:37:28.875-08:00MARRIED LIFEThe pope asked the current GC for loyalty to dogma and obedience to himself.What he got was the declaration of a troubled marriage. According to a CWN story: the new superior general of the Society of Jesus said that the Jesuits remain loyal to the Pope. "If there are problems" in the relationship, he said, "it is precisely because we are so close." So, the battle is engaged. The basic issue is, sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-5012256823152382202008-01-23T08:16:00.000-08:002008-01-23T08:48:21.090-08:00IS, IS & ISN'T: S.J. LAUGH FEST CONTINUESThe Georgetown Jesuits taught Bill Clinton defensive parsing.For instance, one can deflect an accusation of lying, no matter how egregious the falsehood, by requiring the accuser to state what the meaning of “is” is.Is St Louis University a Catholic institution? You guessed it—it depends on the meaning of "is."If “is” means disqualified from receiving public funding for a new sports arena ($sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-75022163921879391982008-01-21T09:05:00.000-08:002008-01-21T09:27:02.814-08:00BAD NEWS FOR RATZOur attraction to love and truth, kindness and integrity, is the foundation of the Christian religion.For many, Christ IS this attraction.Such is the basis of the three modern Christological heresies. Christ = EvolutionChrist = Poor peopleChrist = One of many leaders The original European Romantic, Novalis, (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg), asked: Who declared the writing of the sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-47006700428320824232007-12-26T21:10:00.000-08:002007-12-26T21:16:17.680-08:00JESUIT EDUCATION DISSEDColonel Pat Lang (ret) writes a hard nosed blog called Sic Semper Tyrannis, dealing with geopolitical and intelligence affairs. He appears every so often as an expert commentator on TV news programs. His shtick is military professionalism.Recently he wrote a little rant about national TV punditocracy “guiding” the political choices of non-coastal Americans.It seems clear that the "pundits in sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-36376090018609417772007-11-08T11:25:00.000-08:002007-11-08T11:28:22.819-08:00SYMMETRYMy impression is that these two completely agree on the WHAT.And that they completely disagree on the WHO.Anyway, both have their hands in a "something to hide" position.Models of monarchy, they represent the good old days when men weren’t afraid to dress-up a little.----- o -----sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-42828243891021353172007-11-06T19:12:00.000-08:002007-11-06T19:22:24.167-08:00DEAD OR BEHIND BARSAmerica’s most famous Jesuit, Father Donald McGuire, is in federal custody and prosecutors seem disinclined give him bail, they consider him a flight risk.Does the U.S.A. have an extradition treaty with the Vatican?McGuire, reportedly, had been an important spiritual advisor to Mother Teresa. Teresa was in the news recently when it was revealed that she didn’t really believe the Christ story sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-2424396912526867962007-10-30T09:42:00.000-07:002007-11-06T19:53:57.282-08:00JESUIT CREDIBILITYThe Society of Jesus (Jesuit) is built around “Ignatian Spirituality.” This sounds very esoteric.Then, we’re told that Ignatian Spirituality is based on writings by Ignatius of Loyola called “The Spiritual Exercises.”While I’m sure that The Spiritual Exercises contain, like the Bible, many embarrassing passages that are “not to be taken literally,” two leap out at us.These two passages go to the sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-49500327148152104122007-10-30T08:23:00.000-07:002007-10-30T08:35:28.664-07:00NAZI POPE: MORE MARTYRS, PLEASEBy beatifying hundreds of Francoist thugs, Pope Benedict once again reveals his Nazi roots. The fact that the thugs wore Roman collars makes them saints. Read the appalling CWN story here.The Pope says all Christians should be ready to suffer martyrdom.This sounds a little tinny coming from a Pope who once swore personal loyalty to Adolph Hitler. The Pope’s apologists say that Ratzinger wasn’t sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-66577821754235788692007-10-20T10:23:00.000-07:002007-10-20T10:34:03.302-07:00BROM PLAYS CATCH-UPSan Diego bishop Robert Brom has sent letters, including return addressed donation envelopes, to all parishioners asking for $25M to cover part of the diocese’ priest child sex abuse settlement. (Union-Tribune story here.)Brom is an embarrassment. He refers to the $183M settlement which he and his diocese had long delayed with bad faith negotiations and fraudulent bankruptcy filings as “sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-23173242336441188672007-10-19T20:23:00.000-07:002007-10-19T20:39:05.612-07:00GOD AND SANTAOur received Catholic faith seems to follow a developmental path similar to that of our received belief in Santa Claus. Not so bad, really. Adolescence is always rough, but overall it's a good thing. ----- o -----sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-20456431144376845552007-10-16T19:28:00.000-07:002007-10-20T10:35:55.044-07:00PRETENDING TO SINI have to admit that as an adolescent and young man I did sex things with girlfriends and actually had intercourse with a woman.Yet I represent myself as a gay man.This is not such a big deal. Probably lots of gay guys had sex with girls when they were young, some even get married to women before they decide to follow their lust.But reverse it—say a guy who’s had some youthful sex experiences sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-15359062920434968202007-10-10T21:55:00.000-07:002007-10-10T22:08:25.371-07:00WERNICH GETS LIFE; POPE SUPPORTED CRIMESThe upshot of this BBC story is that von Wernich (guilty) is the first of possibly many such Church related cases. According to BBC, the Catholic hierarchy in Argentina all condoned, and some actually participated in the Junta's dirty war.Is there any reason to believe the Catholic hierarchy in any other part of the world is any better?Here’s the Pope’s kidnapping-for-Jesus bit:The most sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-85050359216502790632007-10-10T15:09:00.000-07:002007-10-10T15:22:25.181-07:00HAMMER AND NAILSCatholic priest, Cristian Von Wernich, according to this story on Latin America Press.Org, has been charged with 80 counts of murder and torture.Von Wernich was chaplain to a group within Argentina’s military junta and is accused of thorough participation in that regime’s “dirty war.”Von Wernich was charged in December 2005 after evidence surfaced of human rights violations, but the trial only sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-91606018227918299032007-10-10T14:18:00.000-07:002007-10-10T14:25:23.162-07:00--KEEPS ON GIVINGOver at Metrexius Journal, Vas Corp Por describes a boring metaphysics class, his hatred of someone named Plantinga, and Mike Tyson’s fist.Vas' attention was grabbed when:Somehow, this branched off into a discussion about sex. Evidently, my poor professor was educated by Jesuits for 8 years, and he claims to be completely incapable of conceiving of sex without guilt. As in, he can't imagine a sexsfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-7355017695225759342007-09-27T14:43:00.000-07:002007-09-27T15:03:39.270-07:00THAT LYING BIBLEThe author of Saint Peter’s Second Epistle was not Saint Peter, at least according to the American Council of Catholic Bishops.In their introduction to 2Peter in the New American Bible, they state:Among modern scholars there is wide agreement that 2 Peter is a pseudonymous work, i.e., one written by a later author who attributed it to Peter…The bishops list numerous reasons why 2Peter could not sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-16538952153085759252007-09-27T12:38:00.000-07:002007-09-27T12:44:34.562-07:00BILL OF PARTICULARSA new conservative blog, Reforming the Jesuits, has emerged.It’s first post, Why Do You Think the Jesuits Need Reformed [sic], is a nifty bill of particulars, beginning with someone named Bollard whotold interviewers on "60 Minutes" that during his seven years as a Jesuit, at least 12 priests made unwelcome sexual advances and invited him to cruise gay bars.Presumably Bollard’s complaint to sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-14490135346064412662007-09-23T05:42:00.000-07:002007-09-23T06:10:19.002-07:00MORE BIBLE BABBLESCRIPTURES, n.The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguishedfrom the false and profane writings on whichall other faiths are based.Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary A gay softball teammate one time mentioned that he had been a Catholic seminarian. He said it was mostly the stupid internal politics, corruption, and general nastiness that drove him away.Somehow I mentioned the Bible sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-40235528361059857762007-09-22T21:15:00.000-07:002007-09-22T21:22:46.977-07:00CHINA LEADS THE WAYTwo men were ordained bishops in China yesterday. These men were not selected by the pope. According to this CNS story, however, the pope approves:The Vatican newspaper indicated that both ordinations had been carried out with the approval of Pope Benedict XVI. The local Catholic communities, who elected the bishops, had indicated to the Vatican that they were worthy candidates, the newspaper sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-83000278127634950672007-09-15T19:02:00.000-07:002007-09-15T19:16:40.622-07:00KEEP GIVING, FOLKSAs the total US priest sex abuse payouts, cumulative from 1950, pass $2 Billion, we are seeing more and more reports of financial crime within the RCC.Right wing commentators point to mutual blackmail contributing to the administrative coverup of the priest sex crimes, but the blackmail need not be sexual. Evidence that a superior has been embezzling could protect a priest sex offender from sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-73444436605772078792007-09-15T18:27:00.000-07:002007-09-15T18:35:21.412-07:00TSK, TSKSo some Jesuit universities are shilling for student-loan lenders—what’s the big deal? Lots of universities around the nation have been caught doing the same thing. There’s no reason to expect better from the Jesuits, is there?According to this story in Fairfield University’s student newspaper, the Mirror,Late this summer, it was reported that Fairfield, as well as two other Connecticut colleges,sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-55182868803152213342007-09-15T17:59:00.000-07:002007-09-15T18:04:54.774-07:00HEAVENLY BODIESAdmission to one’s eternal reward is instantaneous upon death. One’s soul goes immediately into the presence of God, or to H – E – double hockeysticks.But wait, there’s more (as if there need be). At the end of the world, our bodies will be resurrected and reunited with our souls and earth will be transformed. We’ll walk around and experience things the way we did in mortal life, except sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-52829338484598891192007-08-28T14:03:00.000-07:002007-08-28T16:41:41.526-07:00HOLY SONNET XIVMr Richard McCurdy, S.J., told our sophomore honor class that Donne’s sonnet, Batter My Heart…, was a little “grown-up” for kids our age, but he thought we could handle it. Also, since he was teaching it to a senior class at the time, it allowed him to kill two birds with one lesson plan. I always think of Batter My Heart as a “terrible sonnet.” Then wikipedia reminds me it was Hopkins who wrote sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-8840162463534973232007-08-28T03:51:00.000-07:002007-08-28T04:15:26.688-07:00SAINTHOOD MATHJust the mention of Mother Teresa gets this blog’s juices flowing. We agree with Hitchens, et al, that this purported saint was anything but.Like the witches inside Hans Castorp’s Magic Mountain, her vocation fed on a high birth rate.Our seating plan for the eternal banquet called “Heaven” has Mother Teresa sharing a table with Pedro Arbues, Paul of Tarsus, and Augustine of Hippo—the “Mirth Groupsfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-63532811734717130172007-08-22T12:30:00.000-07:002007-08-22T12:42:42.907-07:00JUST DOING THEIR JOBOne of the dumber sayings to come out of the 1960’s youth explosion was, “Don’t trust anyone over thirty.” It’s good advice only if you add, “…neither trust anyone thirty or below.” I heard a Jesuit twist it to: “Don’t trust anyone over thirty-three, unless they’ve been crucified.”Poor Cardinal Bertone has been whining again about negative press coverage. Like the great majority of Enron sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018650033350524569.post-64191288584603402482007-08-22T07:57:00.000-07:002007-08-22T08:06:16.560-07:00BAPTISTS JUST AS BAD?Don McGuire, S.J., might be the most famous Jesuit priest in America today. Freed by the court while appealing his felony child molestation conviction, Father McGuire has been jailed twice for violating the terms of his release.According to this Chicago Sun-Times story, a new civil suit has been filed against McGuire and the Jesuits, by a John Doe.The suit alleges that Jesuit priest Donald sfwilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374352476617643661noreply@blogger.com7