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He’s a Jesuit and my first reaction was to go back to sleep and pretend I was dreaming, but I could not help it. I just had to find out who Cardinal Bergoglio was and so I did and what I read made me smile. I thought, wow, someone who practices the original Ignatian charism as I’ve read in the lives of Fr. Ignatius and his original compania, he is now Pope! What a double whammy for the Jesuit libs! Why, because here is a man who, while fighting for social justice, has towed the line of orthodoxy faithfully, all during the time of the great storm that hit the Church, the 70′s when so many Jesuits gave in to dissent (especially my local favorites).
The Jesuit libs don’t like him, which means I like him already! Here’s what Steve Ray, a Catholic convert writes in his blog:
I asked my trusted friend and Jesuit priest Fr. Fessio, founder of Ignatius Press and student and friend of Pope (Benedict) what he thought of the new pope. He responded: “You’ll love him. The other Jesuits hate him. I’m ecstatic.
I’m ecstatic too Fr. Fessio. Now the real work begins, the work of restoration!
Viva il Papa!
I’d like to think that God has a sense of humor… since the dissenting Jesuits refuse to follow the bishops and the pope, perhaps it’s God’s way of saying… “Here, try to go against your very own Jesuit pope…”… God’s way of calling the Jesuits to task and returning the Jesuits back to the origin essence of being a true Jesuit… for the sake of His faithful servants, Sts. Ignatius and Francis Xavier… God knows what’s He’s doing… He’s in control…
You said everything in a very natural, human, challenging and englightening way!
Like you, I was worried when I found out he’s a Jesuit. It’s a relief to know he’s not liberal. There’s a beautiful picture of him kissing the foot of a child in a wheelchair. i believe it was taken at an AIDs hospice. It’s on my blog if you want to see it. I love him already!
Like many of you, I was dumbfounded. And I was hoping there was another cardinal with the same surname, and certainly not the Jesuit one. Jesuits, pardon me, are known for dissent and infidelity to the Pope. Quickly I browsed through information about him. I was impressed. Bergoglio went against the tide of liberation theology when many in his own Society of Jesus embraced it. In the Argentine press, he has been branded as medieval. In fact, he has been vilified by the growingly secular Latin American society. And instead of being identified with the Jesuits because he is supposed to be one of them, he is instead closely identified with Communio e Liberazione which had been faithful to the magisterial authority of Rome. His own confreres in the Society of Jesus once accused him of siding with the rightist Jorge Videla regime. I am not saying that was necessarily correct, but it very well tells us that this man is no liberal like his own congregation. Having known all these after his election was announced from the Hall of Benedictions, I slept well. I think it is the Jesuits who should now fear a Bergoglio papacy.
Not too many comments on his support for the military dictatorship, I note
Go for it if you can substantiate it.
For those interested in knowing the “controversy” of the Argentinian dictatorship and Cardinal Bergoglio’s supposed involvement read this. http://world.time.com/2013/03/14/the-new-pope-and-argentinas-disappeared-of-the-dirty-war/
As an aside, the adjective is Argentine, not Argentinian, Argentinean or anything else
Thank you for the correction and still the comment remains unanswered or is this a mere lesson on syntax?
It just infuriated me when a Jesuit friend posted a picture of Fr. Danny Huang (former Jesuit Provincial), Fr. Jet Villarin (ADMU President), and Fr. Bobby Yap (Xavier U. President), and said that his three ESTEEMED colleagues had a big hand in helping the Cardinals discern whom to elect as Pope, and aided in advising how to run Catholic schools. The picture of these Jesuits had the St. Peter’s in the background.
These guys are shameless when it comes to taking credit for what is not theirs. Helped the Cardinals discern? Advised in how to run Catholic schools?
The thing is, not one LIKED the post, nor were there any comments. So, eventually, the post was removed, maybe because they noticed that their self praising propaganda did not work as they had thought.
I am really looking forward to Pope Francis’ reforming of the Jesuit order, both here and abroad. These guys are leading the Catholic Flock, particularly the young Catholics astray.
God enlighten the Jesuits. God bless Pope Francis.
You should have taken a screen shot I would have liked to see that!