In Light of Recent Developments
I've been thinking lately -- for the last six months or so -- that it might be time to lay this blog to rest. Don't panic if you are a fan. It will be resurrected in a new and better form. I have written and will continue to write about the new Jesuit Superior General over at Some Have Hats. I don't want to write about him here, because in order to be faithful to the declared purpose of this blog, I'd have to post nothing but the "good" news, and I can't do that. Which is my problem with continuing the blog. I started it as an anti-Jesuit-bashing site. I wanted it to be a site that would be merely supportive to Jesuits and their fans. And it's possible to be that, as I think we have demonstrated. But it's not how I want to spend my very limited spare time any more. I want to zoom in and make the focus even smaller. I want to maintain a blog that will support the efforts of (and the fans of) the Jesuits who heard the Pope's call this week and will answer it. The ones who were already answering it anyway. Those guys deserve our support. They don't get support from many other places and they certainly don't get it from their order. Joe Garcia and I will be the only bloggers, unless someone with the same goal and similar zeal comes along and volunteers. (You have to be able to write, though. Spelling and grammar are encouraged but, as I regularly prove, not required.) While I've been thinking about the new blog, I've been wondering what to call it. I knew I didn't want a Latin name that even I wouldn't be able to remember. I knew I wanted a name that declared, in some way, "sibling blog" to Some Have Hats. This week, while looking at the photos from GC35, the name came to me. The new blog will be called Some Wear Clerics.
I've been thinking lately -- for the last six months or so -- that it might be time to lay this blog to rest. Don't panic if you are a fan. It will be resurrected in a new and better form. I have written and will continue to write about the new Jesuit Superior General over at Some Have Hats. I don't want to write about him here, because in order to be faithful to the declared purpose of this blog, I'd have to post nothing but the "good" news, and I can't do that. Which is my problem with continuing the blog. I started it as an anti-Jesuit-bashing site. I wanted it to be a site that would be merely supportive to Jesuits and their fans. And it's possible to be that, as I think we have demonstrated. But it's not how I want to spend my very limited spare time any more. I want to zoom in and make the focus even smaller. I want to maintain a blog that will support the efforts of (and the fans of) the Jesuits who heard the Pope's call this week and will answer it. The ones who were already answering it anyway. Those guys deserve our support. They don't get support from many other places and they certainly don't get it from their order. Joe Garcia and I will be the only bloggers, unless someone with the same goal and similar zeal comes along and volunteers. (You have to be able to write, though. Spelling and grammar are encouraged but, as I regularly prove, not required.) While I've been thinking about the new blog, I've been wondering what to call it. I knew I didn't want a Latin name that even I wouldn't be able to remember. I knew I wanted a name that declared, in some way, "sibling blog" to Some Have Hats. This week, while looking at the photos from GC35, the name came to me. The new blog will be called Some Wear Clerics.
14 comments:
Thanks for the plug!
Not to look a gift hype in the mouth, you should change your title to "Some WEAR Clerics." Presumably, they all HAVE them. Although that is only speculation, I have no proof.
Thanks again. We will be linking you often and you'll be on the "Good Jesuit Blogs" sidebar as soon as I have time to make one.
Maybe a bunch of Jesuits can come along and do a blog dedicated to crticizing the faith of a group of laity. They can pick apart their lifestyle, moral choices, the power of their witness and what percentage of their material wealth they give to the poor.
That would be America Magazine
I very very very literally gave $50 that I don't have to the poor yesterday at Mass.
I currently have 3 X the bills that I have money. I gave my last dime to the Jesuits to be able to put Xavier up on the PBS sattelite -- I had to borrow that.
You don't know a thing about my "moral choices" or what percentage of my material wealth is and has been given to the poor. I don't crow about it. But for the sake of not being discredited, you might want to look into the inner city school library that Mary Doria Russell and I built in Cleveland. Or maybe you'd like to have a glance at my will.
My crime is that I love the Church and I know that feeding the poor bread is not enough. I believe someone else made that point before me.
"America Magazine" is still "anonymous" to me. And I'm not canceling my subscription.
...and maybe, if their comments are accurate, they might even turn hearts.
Then they coukld hear confessions and absolve the laity of which Anonymous (if that's his real name) speaks.
What this has to do with SHC, though, is a sealed book to me.
-J.
Let me make the point another way. What if a bunch of clerics got a blog up dedicated to criticizing the way married people live out their vocations?
They probably know a lot about it, hearing what they do in confessionals and counseling.
But would it be helpful, if it were couched in the tones that your Jesuit blogs are couched?
No, and I daresay you would resent it.
The most interesting blogs are those that come from the blogger's individual experience - this is especially true with spiritual and religious blogs. Their experience in discipleship - not watching others on their own journey and then blasting them for their perceived straying off the path.
Go ahead and blast away. But look in the mirror, when you take a break, and maybe have the courage to blog on your own flaws, questions and failings in following Christ rather than focusing on others.
Dear Ted,
Great point, we expect priests to constructively criticize us in every homily and every confession.
JMJ
Joe
Ted,
Oh, that. I blog about my manifold failings all the time. So much so that Karen could probably go to confession with a proxy statement from me. In fact, my failings yield to nobody's, even the most off-the-rails Jesuit who advocates the ordination of livestock and polygamous clergy.
However, the premise of your comment is flawed.
1) Married people are not in the position to affect the wholesale perception or popular interpretation of Catholic doctrine.
2) The purpose of our blog is not to criticize in the "aren't these guys jerks?" sort of way.
3) People who go about resenting things irritate me beyond my capacity for charitable expression. To resent things is, in my estimation, a clear indication of an improperly formed conscience.
4) Sometimes the straying off the path is self-evidently not implicit. As tragic as it might be for the salvation of the individual involved, the tragedy is compounded when others are led astray. Spiritual suicide is bad enough, spiritual suicide bombings are not tolerable.
5) We are not proscribed having and expressing our opinions, particularly if we do so charitably and according to the Truth such as we have been given to see it.
6) Those who use their position to lead (unwittingly or with full consent of the will) others are not in any way sacrosanct nor above scrutiny.
No, not even I am above scrutiny and, if/when I am wrong, anyone is invited to take a whack at fraternal correction.
The fact remains that a lot of the Jesuits and, from where I sit, the leadership of the Society are seemingly not interested in faithful adherence to the Magisterium. Why, I don't even much agony over these divergences.
Lastly, I regret if your interpretation of my blog(s) is that there is malicious delight or relish in pointing out the difficulties of the current SoJ.
If that's so, you're (sorry!) as wrong as someone can be without outside assistance. But you are not in any way compelled to take my word for it.
-J.
What Joe said. And then...
I AM going to be blogging from my personal experience. I wouldn't blog, otherwise.
It seems that Joe and I need to state the purpose of the blog in "See Spot Run" language. We're working on a little something for the sidebar.
WE DID NOT START THE BLOG TO BASH JESUITS. WE STARTED THE BLOG TO SUPPORT OUR ORTHODOX JESUIT FRIENDS -- AND WE HAVE MANY BETWEEN US -- WHO, WE HAVE OBSERVED (PERSONAL EXPERIENCE) ARE BEING TREATED BADLY BY THEIR ORDER.
They have been exiled into what they jokingly call the "Jesuit Witness Protection Program." They have been silenced and gulaged. They have been run out of the order. Many are still there but hanging on by a thread. We, the laity, have a right to object. We, the laity, are being robbed of this men at a time when the world and the Church need them desperately.
While pedophiles and pro-aborts rise through the Jesuit ranks, the orthodox Jesuits are being persecuted and the laity don't know it because those in power hold them hostage by the vow of obedience that they take seriously.
The main purpose of the new blog is to let them know that we're out here, praying for them. The secondary purpose is to give a voice to people whose voices have been stolen from them.
And finally, I have this personal compulsion to point at Evil and say, "I see you."
I hope I have cleared things up a little.
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