Yes, the Jesuits have done great harm to the faith in recent decades. My personal belief is that the order should be disbanded if they can't do a thorough purge of members who are Catholic in name only. And the purge should begin at the top with the Superior General who doesn't trust Sacred Scripture because the Apostles didn't have tape recorders. What they have done in their Western elitist schools through their supposed love of the poor is advance the agenda of freemasonry. Not Communism because the fall of the Soviet Union has already exposed Communism for the hoax that it is. The children of wealth and privilege receiving a Jesuit education won't be convinced to let go of either their wealth or privilege in the name of Communism. Rather, they are more likely to follow the path of Masonry which allows them to hold on to their money and privilege while embracing the "progressive" anti-family elements of Communism. That they use the poor to do it is simply a tactic they share with the Communists. I strongly suspect that a close examination of the leader of Venezuela's opposition would show him to be no different than the products of the US Jesuit colleges. The only substantial difference between the Masons and the Communists is who gets control of the money and the masses. They all have replaced worship of the Creator with worship of creation.
Well said Beth. I keep saying just listen to our mothers messages. That all we have to do and keep asking her to pray for us. That's all she wants and heaven will do the rest. God bless yoe... Gary
Byron I often have to remind myself our hope can never be in men. Only God. Jesus is asleep in the boat. He has not abandoned us. This morning I pictured myself in that tossing a nd heaving boat and I told Him "I am going to grab a hold of your robe. You go ahead and sleep. I will hold on. If I hang on to your robe I wont drown." It was a strange meditation but then Father Jack went on to base his whole sermon on Jesus asleep in the boat and he reminded us of Jesus's words: why were you afraid. How is it you have no faith? So I'm taking this as a subject for some deep pondering. (Praying for Jack!)
I agree with Richard anyway, I cannot agree that the US intervention will bring anything other than misery to Venezuela who have enough troubles of their own right now. Yes their socialist experiment is a bit of a disaster, predictably enough, but no way do modern day US interventions bring anything other than constant blood shed and destabilised countries. The deep state in the US, who are clearly running this show, operate in nobody's best interests.
Yes Gary, Our Mother really does know best...but like kids sometimes, we just don’t listen...until its too late. I’m old enough now to not doubt her
No, he isn't the only hope. He's the only hope being promoted by one vested interest, with Maduro being the only hope promoted by the other vested interest. There are probably people in Venezuela who don't like either side but nobody is interested in what they want. The Jesuits are too fond of mixing religion and politics while knowing full well from past experience that the result of trying to serve two masters is a loss of supernatural faith. All the indications now are that those Jesuits have no supernatural faith and are using Catholicism in pursuit of a purely secular agenda. If Catholic parents had adopted Jesuit tactics when their children had been weaned off the faith in Jesuit institutions they would have joined together and taken some kind of religious class action case against the Jesuits to the Holy See. Too late now because I can't imagine there being many Catholic parents who prioritise the faith over worldly success risk letting their children anywhere near Jesuit colleges like Georgetown. Georgetown is probably very good at teaching Islamic studies - otherwise the Arabs wouldn't plough money into it. I wouldn't be surprised to see it eventually become a purely Islamic institution. St. Ignatius must be turning in his grave.
I read a book some time ago about the air crash in the Andes after which some of the student rugby team involved were reduced to cannibalism of the dead in order to survive. They attended a college run by the Christian Brothers who had been asked, in the mid-sixties, to open their first college in Uruguay by a group of Catholic parents who were unwilling to entrust their boys' religious formation to the Jesuits. So this problem with the Jesuits (especially in South America) clearly goes a long way back and was recognised as early as the sixties by laypeople - but not apparently by the Church. The majority of Jesuits enthusiastically embraced liberation theology (as proven by the men they elected as superiors, including Fr. Bergoglio) and now the universal Church suffers the consequences of their politicisation.
Yes. If you havent read The Jesuits by Malachi Martin I expect it would validate what you are saying. I never read it--yet--but I know a lot of the persecution from the Church toward him came from the Jesuits. They were furious at him for uncovering how extreme and leftist they had become.
I am afraid I agree. As an Americsn it saddens me to be so cynical but our track record is horrible over the last many years and we have got enough to fix right here. We should just stay OUT of these conflicts. Having said that I know of one family here with family there that they are desperately concerned for so...truth is I just dont know the right answer.
Hasn't it occurred to you what could be driving the popularity of all things Islamic among young people - that money might have something to do with it? Georgetown's School of Islamic and Arabic studies: https://arabic.georgetown.edu/ They have a campus in Qatar, part funded by the Qatar Foundation: https://global.georgetown.edu/regions/middle-east/iran According to this report in the Financial Times, Georgetown topped the list of US universities receiving funds from the Gulf States during the period 2012-2018 (about $400 million): https://www.ft.com/content/fa6d15a4-f6ed-11e8-af46-2022a0b02a6c There seems to be a movement to "reform" Islam, with some aspirations towards re-writing or re-interpreting the Q'ran, removing or changing passages to comply with political correctness. We can only hope that the Jesuits aren't involved in any such efforts because if such a move were successful it's only a matter of time before the attention would turn to the Bible. Actually, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Jesuits weren't considering re-writing or re-interpreting the Bible. Fr. Sosa's remarks about the Apostles not having tape recorders could be indicative of more than his own views concerning what the Bible says about adultery.
The problem with the Jesuits does pre-date the 1960's. I think it goes back probably to around the time of Teilhard deChardin and possibly even further but the Church authorities seem to have under-estimated the danger, presumably because they thought that the Jesuit leaders had a grip on it. How wrong they were - wrong enough to have inflicted a Jesuit Pope on Christ's Church.
Dolours, thanks for the information.... This is the kind of thing that makes you really understand how fast we are spiraling into the one world religion, etc. I try to follow the news, and I missed this. I’m sure I’ve missed a whole lot more. If I, who literally seek out these things was unaware, I can only imaging how uninformed the average person is...not that I’m above average, but I at least try to know what’s going on. I must be falling short by a lot! Catholics and Protestant Christians had better start paying attention. We need to be accessing current events for ourselves. On matters of faith especially. The speed at which things are evolving are mind blowing...at least for me.
Freemasonry is condemned. And one of the reasons it was condemned was that it seeks to destabilize and overthrow legitimate authority. Maduro is the legitimate authority in Venezuela. Guaido, and his Neocon handlers, are the real Tyrants. Trump and his Neocon, Freemason pals now have innocent blood on their hands.
Communism is also condemned. That the opposition is led by a Freemason doesn't make Maduro good. There has to be a better way for Venezuela.
"Russia will spread her errors throughout the world" and Freemasonry has wanted to destroy the Vatican at least since 1917 when there was a public rally and parade viewed by St. Maximilan Kolbe. That is when he formed the Knights of the Immaculata. So you are completely correct!
