In 1965 there were 5,277 Jesuit priests and 3,559 seminarians;
in 2000 there were 3,172 priests and 389 seminarians.
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" In light of Ignatius' 'Two Standards' and 'The Mystries Done From The Garden To The House Of Annas', at any moment we can be Judas or Peter, a Christian life can be a fine line."
6 comments:
Because the Jesuits have lost their charism.
What charism? They were the Pope's Gestapo & carried out evil & godless acts against non-Catholics. We were happy to see the decline of Nazism & we are happy to see the decline of Jesuitism.
Because they replaced The Spiritual Exercises with Liberation Theology.
Leo,
Spoken like a true Millerite!
Anonymous 7:56,
I don't understand the "Millerite" allusion. I found them on Wikipedia, but I still don't understand the allusion.
This - and the discussions - wouldn't be fair without the numbers of priests then and now, which has also dropped.
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