{"id":5163,"date":"2006-01-24T23:23:50","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T23:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/a-jesuit-responds.html"},"modified":"2006-01-24T23:23:50","modified_gmt":"2006-01-24T23:23:50","slug":"a-jesuit-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/a-jesuit-responds.html","title":{"rendered":"A Jesuit Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Mossa, S.J. responds to Fr. Neuhaus’ recent FT article:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Father Neuhaus and others need to wake up to the fact that the Society of Jesus is not engaged in some vast conspiracy to undermine the Church. It\u2019s a provocative tale to tell, but it\u2019s not the truth. And, also, even if all his charges were valid, 5 men can never stand as representative of 19,000. The Society of Jesus as Father Neuhaus paints it is nothing more than a caricature. In charity, I hope it is simply because he is uninformed. But I can\u2019t help but wonder if he\u2019s simply willing to ignore the truth to promote his agenda, which seems to be laying down a challenge to the Pope to show how \u201cmanly\u201d he can be by beating up who Neuhaus paints as the largest bully in the Church’s schoolyard\u2014those darn Jesuits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m going to keep comments closed here, to encourage you to go discuss this over at Mark’s blog. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Mossa, S.J. responds to Fr. Neuhaus’ recent FT article: Father Neuhaus and others need to wake up to the fact that the Society of Jesus is not engaged in some vast conspiracy to undermine the Church. It\u2019s a provocative tale to tell, but it\u2019s not the truth. 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