No joke, I spoke with a guy who is terrified of the Society...
2007-07-26 10:38:06 · 12 answers · asked by nom de paix 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
JESUITS!!!!!!
2007-07-26 10:47:05 · update #1
Only when it comes to NCAA Basketball - Go Gonzaga!!
2007-07-26 10:41:38 · answer #1 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It depends. There are conservative Jesuits and there are liberal Jesuits. The Curia hates Jesuits because they tend to think for themselves. All that Ignatian training got them in the habit of listening, meditating and then acting, instead of doing whatever they were told. So authoritarians consider them loose cannons and spare no effort to suppress any independence. So far, the authoritarians have been winning, but at the expense of many good ideas.
2007-07-26 18:18:15 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Jesuits can barely muster the courage to believe in God anymore, let alone serve as a source for conspiratorial plotting. There is nothing much left of the Jesuits these days, except a lot of retired clergy living off endowments and their formally Catholic, but now secularized institutions-- so your friends fears are unfounded.
2007-07-26 17:44:49 · answer #3 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesuits are a group of Catholic monks with the past mission of conversion, now with the mission of education = Notre Dame University, for example, is a Jesuit-run school.
He probably means the Knights Templars, and they haven't been (officially) around since the 1300's.
2007-07-26 17:43:13 · answer #4 · answered by bethanne 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The only thing Jesuits threaten is ignorance.
2007-07-26 18:45:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Conspiracy theory AntiCatholics have always loved hating the Jesuits or ,in reality, their legends of the Jesuits.
2007-07-27 19:00:19 · answer #6 · answered by James O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL!! I am not a Jesuit but I taught at a Jesuit University for eight years and they are certainly no threat to anyone.
In Christ
Fr. Joseph
2007-07-26 17:47:54 · answer #7 · answered by cristoiglesia 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It saddens me to have to say this but since the second Vatican council the Society of Jesus has become distanced from the Papacy and very rebellious, if you can get your hands on `Malachi Martins` book `Jesuits` you will be very much surprised at today`s society.
2007-07-26 18:04:15 · answer #8 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why is he afraid of Jesuits? They haven't built any new missions on the 'rez in hundreds of years.
2007-07-26 17:40:55 · answer #9 · answered by ಠ__ಠ 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A threat to whom?
What have they done?
2007-07-26 17:44:39 · answer #10 · answered by Randy G 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋