tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44918019052750220.post5912615629780861829..comments2024-01-16T19:31:28.762-05:00Comments on Good Jesuit, Bad Jesuit: Fairfield Chapel And Rectory Win Architects AwardJoseph Frommhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16759274486679530625noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44918019052750220.post-69181352138249633842012-05-22T17:31:57.817-04:002012-05-22T17:31:57.817-04:00It seems that the Society wants to free everyone o...It seems that the Society wants to free everyone on the face of the earth from poverty, everyone, it seems, except themselves.<br /><br />EXCERPT FROM A LETTER TO THE FATHERS AND BROTHERS IN PADUA<br /><br />On Feeling the Effects of Poverty Rome, August 6, 1547 [Though the letter to the community at Padua had been drafted by Polanco, Ignatius' secretary, the ideas are those of Ignatius]<br /> <br /><br />"Whoever loves poverty and is unwilling to feel want, or any of its effects, would be a very finicky poor man and would give the impression of one who loved the name rather than the reality, of one who loved in words rather than in the depth of his heart."<br /><br />The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus exhort: "All should love poverty as a mother" (Part III, c. 1, #25) and "poverty is like a bulwark of religious institutes which preserves them in their existence and discipline and defends them from many enemies".Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02704944620839677383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44918019052750220.post-37837605504402600882012-05-22T15:05:55.178-04:002012-05-22T15:05:55.178-04:00Bishops live in palaces.
This new college space h...Bishops live in palaces.<br /><br />This new college space has meeting rooms etc. It is not simply for lodging a dozen clerics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com