Jesus' Call to Mercy 
Fr. Joseph Andrasz, S.J.I saw the Infant Jesus who, with hands outstretched toward us, was sitting in the chalice being used at Holy Mass. After gazing at me penetratingly, He spoke these words: 'As you see Me in this chalice, so I dwell in your heart'"(Diary, 1346). The little Jesus is instructing St. Faustina that, through His Eucharistic Presence, He dwells in her heart as the source of her strength. Even as the Infant Jesus strengthened her in the Eucharist, His abiding presence also filled her heart with great joy. Her desire grew for Him alone as the greatest treasure of all. She writes of February 2, 1936,
"... when Mass began, a strange silence and joy filled my heart. Just then, I saw Our Lady with the Infant Jesus ... . The most holy Mother said to me, 'Take my Dearest Treasure,' and she handed me the Infant Jesus. When I took the Infant Jesus in my arms, the Mother of God and Saint Joseph disappeared. I was left alone with the Infant Jesus"( Diary, 608).. Link (here)
Soon after his appointment, Archbishop Wojtyla approached Jesuit theologian Ignatius Rozycki and asked him to review Sister Faustina's writings. Initially skeptical, Fr. Rozycki spent ten years in an exhaustive study of the Sister and her notebooks, which the Vatican had condemned in 1958. Father Rozycki's findings were published and the prohibition lifted in 1978.Beatified in 1992, St. Faustina was canonized in the year 2000; on the latter occasion Pope John Paul II declared the first Sunday after Easter "Divine Mercy Sunday."
That we owe to God both internal and external worship, is an obvious truth. Worship consists in acts of adoration, prayer, obedience to God's will, and love for Him. Now, the duty of performing these acts flows necessarily from the relations which exist between us and God. God is our Creator and our last end.Since He is our Creator, we are bound to acknowledge His infinite power and majesty, and His supreme dominion over us. We are therefore obliged to adore Him. We must acknowledge our entire dependence on Him; hence arises the duty of prayer, and of entire submission to His divine will. We are also bound to thank Him for all.
The Divine Mercy apostolate has been flourishing, not only in Poland, but throughout Europe, Asia and other parts of the world, including Australia where it was brought by migrants from Poland in 1950 and was actively promoted by the Polish Jesuit Chaplain Fr Stanislaw Skudrzyk. He arranged the transport of the first picture of Jesus Divine Mercy to Melbourne which was solemnly blessed by Archbishop Mannix on the Sunday of Divine Mercy, 20 April 1952, and given a place of honour in St Ignatius Church in Richmond, until 1959.
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| Loyola House, Former Irish Jesuit Headquarters |
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| St. Ignatius of Loyola |
But even as the Jesuits brace for near-extinction in this part of the world, their ideals are spreading.
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| Bishop Julian Porteous |
Father Gregory Jordan, S.J., 80, who was appointed as exorcist to the archdiocese of Brisbane about 10 years ago, said in his experience ouija boards and astrology posed a risk. He said the growth in demand for exorcisms in Western countries, albeit from a low base, was unquestionable: he had performed four this week.
Father Jordan said. ''After an exorcism I've had people say, 'I feel lighter.' They straighten their shoulders.'' A protocol in place stipulated that the subject of the rite was medically examined before undergoing it, he said.''When there's real doubt, I simply … give them the Sacrament of anointing, which is quite appropriate and [with] which generally speaking they're quite happy,'' he said.
Palacios is the director of Catholics for Equality Education, another group of dissenters trying to destroy the Church from within. Palacios especially mocks the idea of Archbishop Silvano Tomasi that the real victims are now those who dare to oppose those false “rights” (“they are stigmatized…vilified, and prosecuted” stated Tomasi at the UN Human Rights Council. See “Holy See statement on S@xual Orientation. Human s@xuality is not an identity,” C.I., May 2011, p. 28. Website: http://catholicinsight.com/online/church/vatican/article_1128.shtml, April 14). Palacios is an example of a person who has pushed his earlier religious understanding of creation out of sight and now embraces the immorality of the activist h@mosexual lifestyle as the new preferred ideology of equality.
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| Fr. Donal Godfrey, S.J. |
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| Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J. |
The decline continues with no end in sight. Yet the American Jesuits have not only refused to study the problem of catastrophic decline themselves, they have gone out of their way to knee-cap scholars whose explanations were unflattering.Just ask Peter McDonough, the co-author of Passionate Uncertainty: Inside the American Jesuits. The late Cardinal Avery Dulles, SJ, was not terribly fond of the book; he criticized its implicit liberal bias. Yet Cardinal Dulles still recognized Passionate Uncertainty as “a wake-up call” for the Jesuits.
It is the founding church of the Jesuit Order, and it is just amazing. Because the dome lantern contains yellow glass,
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| Fr. Johnny Go, S.J. |
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| Fr. John B. Guida, S.J. |
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| John Wilkes Booth |
As the war progressed, the College saw its grounds occupied by Union troops on multiple occasions, according to documents in the exhibition. The university tried to maintain normal activities throughout the war, according to Georgetown documents.Faculty melted down silver spoons that belonged to students who had already left campus to make silver medals awarded for academic achievement at the 1862 commencement."
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| The St. Francis Mission |
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| Bishop Donald Kettler |
“I’ve come this evening just to, to hear what you’d like to tell me, or what you’d like to say to me,” said Kettler, who oversees a northern and western Alaska diocese more than three times the size of Italy. A grey V-neck sweater framed his priest’s collar and soft features.
“Joseph Lundowski. Father Endal …” he began, naming the men who sexually abused him and a generation of other St. Michael children on an almost daily basis. “I wish that those who victimized me, I wish they was here, too,” said Andrews,
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| Doug Perlitz |
The primary reason Fr. Cornelius gives for this transitioning between the two beasts is that “the colt perchance was not strong enough to bear a rider in the descent and ascent of the mountain.” The colt, of course, was smaller than the ass (being its foal) and therefore was likely too weak to carry the Christ.
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| Fr. Mark P. Scalese, S.J. |
That they aren’t being replaced by younger Jesuits is the result of social and economic circumstances, including increased opportunity for poor Catholics and the stringent requirements of the priesthood. (“In my experience, mandatory celibacy is far and away the biggest deal breaker,” says Father Scalese.)
An old beech tree at the bottom of a steep hill along Bellarmine Road no longer stands on Fairfield University’s campus, but it’s been reborn within the new 23,000-square-foot Jesuit Community Center.Events conclude with Saturday's Genderfunk Drag Ball at 10 p.m. in McShain Lounge and the presentation of the case Gay Rights Coalition v. Georgetown University, 1987 by Professor Walter Walsh of the University of Washington on Monday.
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| Most Holy Name of Jesus Church |
The Tom Benson Jesuit Center will serve as the center for spiritual life on Loyola's campus, addressing all facets of what it means to be a Jesuit and Catholic university.One plan is to use part of the building to house the department of Mission and Ministry. It will also be home to a new chapel on campus.
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| Bishop of Ypres Belguim, Cornelius Jansen |
One bishop referred to the Jansenists as "pure as angels and proud as devils" -- an apt description of certain defenders of Catholic orthodoxy who believe it's their job to "determine who's in and who's out", as Allen puts it. This can reach extremes. I recently learned that one British Catholic blogger, who has regularly described me and my Catholic Voices colleagues as "dissenters", told someone I met recently in Spain that we were "lapsed Catholics".
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| Fr. James Martin, S.J. |
At its worst, though, the Catholic blogosphere is an arena for a self-appointed magisterium to engage in snarky commentary, judge without evidence and condemn with nary a thought for a person’s reputation.
Who would want to join such a group? What’s more, a few bloggers seem solely interested in “inside-baseball” Catholicism (I'm guilty of this myself sometimes), which the Pontifical Council has noted.
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| Fr. Bryan Massingale |
both spoke at a recent event for a group that advocates “full equality” for h@mosexuals. At the event the pair were confronted by a reporter with CNS News, who asked the priest whether he agrees with the Catholic Church’s teaching on h@mosexuality – a question that the priest demurred from answering.
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| Former priest Daniel Maguire |
The title of his lecture was “The Gender Justice Revolution: How Feminism Builds Bridges Between Genders, Races, Sexual Orientations, Classes and Nations,” and it’s not a surprising one given his position in favor of abortion.The Cardinal Newman Society, a pro-life group that serves as a watchdog over Catholic colleges, said that, in March 2007, the U.S. bishops’ doctrine committee declared that the pro-abortion teachings of Daniel Maguire, who is a professor at Jesuit Marquette University, “cross the legitimate lines of theological reflection” and represent outright “false teaching.”
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Boston College's John J. Burns Library |
this particular dialogue was intended to prompt discussion on the Monologues and their place in a Jesuit community. "This topic is typically the big topic of controversy when discussing an on-campus production of ‘The V@gina Monologues,'" Yee said.This was followed on April 6 with "Learning to Speak: The Power of Narratives," an exploration into the power of personal narrative and the authentic identity one may experience through participation in personal narrative. Yee notes that both these panel discussions were controversial and at times inflammatory. "The earlier panel discussions did get pretty heated at some points," she said. However, she further explained that such controversy is necessary in order to accomplish the goal of Monologues, Dialogues, & Stories. "‘The V@gina Monologues,' and perhaps Monologues, Dialogues, & Stories as a whole, raises dissenting voices," Yee said.
"Promoting and glorifying Planned Parenthood and other abortion organizations on any campus is unacceptable, most especially on a Catholic campus,"
The letter contrasts with recent expressions of repentance heard in the Seattle Archdiocese. A recent commentary at Seattle’s Jesuit-run St. Joseph Church talked of “a communal responsibility, a responsibility too often avoided in our culture and in our church.” The commentary followed a recent $166 million settlement between Northwest Jesuits and plaintiffs, mainly Native Americans, who claimed abuse at schools in Washington and Alaska.
He also took issue with allegations of widespread child rape from victims and their advocates. “Lets get it straight — they weren’t children and they weren’t raped,” Donohue alleged. “We know from the John Jay study that most of the victims have been adolescents, and that the most common abuse has been inappropriate touching (inexcusable though this is, it is not rape).
