Re: Re: Re: Re: Schweickart

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:32 AM 7/17/00 +0100, you wrote:
> That is in fact what I rather assumed. I almost said I understood he came
> from the "good" university of Chicago. In more recent decades the Jesuits
> have had links with liberation theology, no?

as someone who works at a Jesuit-dominated school (one of Loyola
University's "sister" schools), I wouldn't overdo the Jesuit connection.
The Jesuits have gone from being "the Pope's army" to being "the Pope's
think-tank" (for the older generation) to being more interested in
education outside of universities (the younger generation). Here I see the
older generation, who have a variety of opinions, from ultra-conservatism
to "liberation theology," as befitting their role of providing a lot of
different viewpoints to the Pope and the hierarchy. (The older generation
shares a lot of perspectives, however, such as a lack of understanding of
family life or a woman's perspective. Thus, there is no day-care on
campus.) The younger generation of more lib-theo-oriented Jesuits don't
show up here much. (Some people complain that this younger generation is
becoming like the Franciscans. Horrors!) This is one reason why the Jesuit
universities in the US are slowly becoming unjesuitical. The other is that
young men don't want to take a vow of chastity these days. Loyola Marymount
is also run by a bunch of nuns (as junior partners), but they're becoming
scarce too. (You'd think that this would drive up the price and encourage
people to become nuns and priests, but no...)  So the place is slowly
becoming unCatholic, too. This happened to a lot of Protestant evangelical
places years ago.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine