I would love it if she wrote a book on Father John Hardon SJ , it would greatly assist his cause forsainthood in Rome.
He was my mother-in-law's spiritual director, along with Cardinal Burke. I will definitely think about it.
Wonderful, thank you so much. I believe he suffered horribly from the behaviour of very many of his Jesuit confreres.
https://www.soulsandliberty.com/post/we-are-finished-rector-pens-apocalyptic-epistle-to-jesuits “We are Finished” Rector Pens Apocalyptic Epistle to Jesuits A senior Jesuit has written an apocalyptic letter warning his confreres across the world that the Society of Jesus is doomed if it does not repent and regain its original vision. In his 11-page epistle titled Ad Usum Nostrorum (For Our Use), Fr. Julio Fernández Techera, rector of the Catholic University of Uruguay, raises the alarm that the society is in “deep decline” and “does not have a real vision of where it is going and what it wants to achieve.” The letter begins by asking why the sex abuse scandals of the celebrity Jesuit mosaic artist Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik that rocked the Society of Jesus in 2022 have not been addressed in the Congregation of Procurators and are not stated clearly in the De Statu Societatis 2023. Fernández expresses grave concern that multiple members within the Jesuit community at the Aletti Center in Rome, co-founded by Rupnik, have left the Jesuit order as an expression of solidarity with the predator priest, who is accused of sexually abusing 25 nuns. After highlighting the “Rupnik Tsunami,” Fernández addresses the cover-up by several Jesuit provincials in the case of Fr. Alfonso Pedrajas Moreno, a Bolivian Jesuit, who abused over 85 males, including several Jesuit seminarians, in the 1980s. “We have had to find out about everything through the press and we have not received a single statement or letter from the General Curia explaining what happened or to ask for prayers for the province of Bolivia,” Fernández laments. The annual report of the order “says nothing about the issue of concealment and the responsibilities of superiors” even though “the reputation of the Society of Jesus has been hit hard in recent times,” the rector notes. Slamming the De Statu Societatis 2023 for its “convoluted” language, the rector asks why it does not discuss topics linked to “the redemptive mission of Christ and our priestly task.” “We cannot contemplate the world as atheists,” Fernández admonishes, noting that the Jesuits are experiencing a “tremendous identity crisis” and are guilty of “secularizing” the vocation of the priesthood and the Society of Jesus. “It seems that they (the Superior General and his team) do not want to talk about the priestly identity of our vocation,” he writes. “The implicit concealment of the priesthood as an essential characteristic of our vocation, I believe, is the key to our lack of vocations.” “In this entire long document, of more than 24,000 words, the word ‘priest’ never appears and ‘priesthood’ appears only twice, although to make a reference distinguishing between the priesthood in the society and the diocesan priesthood,” he observes. “If what the document indicates is like this, the Society’s problem is more serious than we might think. If Jesuits of all generations and all cultural backgrounds have doubts about their identity, we are finished,” he predicts. “I think our attitude is suicidal: we want vocations for the priesthood in the Society, but we don’t want to talk about being priests,” the rector warns, outlining the nosedive in the number of vocations. “In 2023, 314 novices joined the entire Company, and 319 Jesuits died,” he details, explaining how the society lost 245 members last year. “In my own province from 2011 to 2024, 44 novices have entered. In the same period, 46 Jesuits have left the society.” “Recently, a companion told me that 72 novices entered his province in the last ten years. In the same period, 71 Jesuits left the society in the same province,” he adds. “The problem is not only that many die and few enter, but also that we do not know how to retain many of those who enter.” Fernández blasts the Jesuits in many parts of the world for turning into “shameful, secretive, timid priests, without apostolic zeal,” warning that the vision of the order as laid out in the annual report is no different from that of a “secular think-tank, left-wing political party, or progressive non-governmental organization.”
This man is a priest who prays......and while he's speaking of Jesuit problems, he has also outlined Church problems, imho, resulting from the advance of the infected "wanna be jesuits"......He's laid it on the line. God bless him and protect him for his great courage in doing so.
