the 35th General Congregation of the Society of Jesuits blames the culture’s, “Exaggerated individualism and consumerism” for the disappearance of the Jesuits.
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Few self-respecting young men with a love of the Church would want to spend the rest of their lives looking after a considerable number of old and disloyal men who imagine that they are above the Church. I know one in his eighties who continues to publish heresy. His latest book replaces original sin with an uncritical acceptance of evolution. I hope he will be run in to the CDF.
"I can say this for my own least Society of Jesus. You don’t lose ten thousand men in fifteen years in a religious order unless there is something wrong".
--John Hardon SJ
The History of Religious Life
St. Teresa of Avila and the Carmelite Reform
"...for us, in the 20th century, the reformation of a religious institute is what, is a return to the primitive rule. All right? It is that embarrassingly simple. Of course, in returning to the primitive rule we have got to shovel away tons of criticism of our being well, archaic, preconciliar, old-hat, ancient, stodgy, static, you name it. All right? Remember this, the reformation of any religious institute is either a return to its primitive rule or it is to have that institute disappear.
The history of religious communities is very simple. They started with great men and women of faith. They reached a peak, they declined, after being less fervent, declining, losing members, not getting vocations and having all kinds of learned excuses for not getting vocations but never admitting the one principle reason, a lack of fervor. One of two things has happened, and this is now a thousand years of recorded religious history. They either have got hold of themselves and went back to their origins or they disappeared".
--John Hardon SJ
When the Society of Jesus decides it now longer wants to be a homosexual welfare program, it will at the same time solve its vocational crisis.
Fr. Hardon was an armchair, crackel barrel philosopher.
“Exaggerated individualism and consumerism” likely have a lot to do with it, but if the Jesuits actually stood up against these things - especially the former - I don't think they'd be in such bad shape.
Oh, so it's fine for the pope to condemn individualism & consumerism but not the Jesuits?!
Vocations will increase only if they cut down on the heterodoxy, pederasty and sodomy.
I have seen many young men either leave Jesuit life or refuse to even consider it after becoming disheartened with the utter corruption they battled within the Society every day.
They could solve this problem by asking every Jesuit candidate to answer three questions:
1) What happens to the bread & wine after the Consecration
2) May a married couple practice contraception?
3) Are homosexual acts inherently sinful?
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