Conservative Catholics, especially, are distressed that an order claiming a special fealty to the Pope should so often include some of the most vehement critics of the church; that what was once the church's first line of defense should now seem to be a fifth column.
Link (here) to the 1973 Time Magazine article entitled, The Jesuits' Search For a New Identity
Many Catholic parents complain, for example, that their sons attending Jesuit schools are sheltered from neither the drug culture, early sex, political radicalism nor the general youthful antagonism to modern society.A young St. Louis Jesuit counters: "We no longer exist to give the conservative Catholic a pat on the back."
Link (here) to the 1973 Time Magazine article entitled, The Jesuits' Search For a New Identity
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