Catholic Jesuit University Professors Promoting Assisted Suicide

[Pax_et_Bonum]

Catholic Jesuit University Professors Promoting Assisted Suicide
by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 6/22/11 10:25 PM

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Although the nation’s Catholic bishops recently released a new statement condemning assisted suicide and promoting efforts to help patients and the elderly find positive alternatives, a new report from a Catholic educational watchdog group finds assisted suicide advocates are teaching at Jesuit universities across the country.

The Cardinal Newman Society report shows the promotion of the anti-life practice despite the release last Thursday by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops of the paper called “To Live Each Day with Dignity: A Statement on Physician-Assisted Suicide.” The bishops cautioned about an “aggressive nationwide campaign” promoted by “assited suicide proponents.”

Published Tuesday in Crisis Magazine, the Cardinal Newman Society report has CNS president Patrick Reilly uncovering scandalous associations between the assisted suicide movement and current and recent professors at four major Jesuit universities: Georgetown University, Marquette University, Santa Clara University and Boston College.

Reilly noted that it was a “particular irony” that the assisted suicide statement should be released simultaneously with the U.S. bishops’ ongoing 2011 review of Catholic colleges’ implementation of Vatican guidelines for Catholic higher education in the 1990 constitution Ex corde Ecclesiae.

Writes Reilly: “[These professors] have done more than betray the Catholic Church when they advocated assisted suicide from their platforms at Jesuit universities.

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[StellaMaris3]

Not surprised. Malachi Martin, the Jesuit whistle-blower accused them of being satanists/ luciferians. Apparently, they are no longer loyal to the Pope. In fact, a few centuries ago, the Pope tried to dissolve their order but they withstood. Their previous leader, Kolvenbach has been accused as being a satanist. He was called the Black Pope.

If there are any loyal Catholic Jesuits left they need to make themselves known. Because at this stage, the evidence shows that are luciferians; the Judas in God’s Holy Catholic Church.

It’s time to unmask all the satanists and illuminati within the Catholic clergy and externally too!!!

Pax vobis,
StellaMaris3

 

[dcs6f4]

The wisdom of the Catholic Church and the continuity of Christian thought throughout the centuries no longer exist at institutions like the ones you mentioned. If you have kids send them to Benedictine College, Ave Maria University, or Steubenville to get a traditional Catholic education… even if they were in Catholic grade school and high school its very likely they didn’t receive good catechesis.

I appreciate your post. I hope only the best for these universities, but as long as they are disobedient to the authorities in the Catholic Church they stand alone as an institution who deceives students, families, and the world by suggesting they are ‘Catholic’…

 

[Fink]

The professors are promoting the assisted suicide of their own institutions.

 

[meltzerboy]

The wisdom of the Catholic Church and the continuity of Christian thought throughout the centuries no longer exist at institutions like the ones you mentioned. If you have kids send them to Benedictine College, Ave Maria University, or Steubenville to get a traditional Catholic education… even if they were in Catholic grade school and high school its very likely they didn’t receive good catechesis.

I appreciate your post. I hope only the best for these universities, but as long as they are disobedient to the authorities in the Catholic Church they stand alone as an institution who deceives students, families, and the world by suggesting they are ‘Catholic’…

Has there really been continuity of Christian (Catholic) thought throughout the centuries? I thought the Jesuits have been known for some unorthodox teachings. And there have also been famous controversies in Catholicism, some of which were ultimately labeled heresies. I don’t think Catholic teaching has been quite as uniform and continuous as you may think.

 

[dcs6f4]

Has there really been continuity of Christian (Catholic) thought throughout the centuries? I thought the Jesuits have been known for some unorthodox teachings. And there have also been famous controversies in Catholicism, some of which were ultimately labeled heresies. I don’t think Catholic teaching has been quite as uniform and continuous as you may think.

Specific examples… (so I can answer you directly)?

 

[meltzerboy]

Specific examples… (so I can answer you directly)?

I don’t want to derail the thread, so please PM me if you wish to discuss this subject further. I’ll just say here that the Jesuit teaching of probabilism and the notion that the end justifies the means (for example, in the case of lying) are quite different from what others in the Catholic Church have said.

 

[Pax_et_Bonum]

Has there really been continuity of Christian (Catholic) thought throughout the centuries? I thought the Jesuits have been known for some unorthodox teachings. And there have also been famous controversies in Catholicism, some of which were ultimately labeled heresies. I don’t think Catholic teaching has been quite as uniform and continuous as you may think.

That is why thet were labelled heresies-The following are some of the major heresies of the part 2000 years which have been and will be corrected(Protestantism):

Gnosticism (1st and 2nd Centuries)

“Matter is evil!” was the cry of the Gnostics. This idea was borrowed from certain Greek philosophers. It stood against Catholic teaching, not only because it contradicts Genesis 1:31 (“And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good”) and other scriptures, but because it denies the Incarnation. If matter is evil, then Jesus Christ could not be true God and true man, for Christ is in no way evil. Thus many Gnostics denied the Incarnation, claiming that Christ only appeared to be a man, but that his humanity was an illusion. Some Gnostics, recognizing that the Old Testament taught that God created matter, claimed that the God of the Jews was an evil deity who was distinct from the New Testament God of Jesus Christ. They also proposed belief in many divine beings, known as “aeons,” who mediated between man and the ultimate, unreachable God. The lowest of these aeons, the one who had contact with men, was supposed to be Jesus Christ.

Montanism (Late 2nd Century)

Montanus began his career innocently enough through preaching a return to penance and fervor. His movement also emphasized the continuance of miraculous gifts, such as speaking in tongues and prophecy. However, he also claimed that his teachings were above those of the Church, and soon he began to teach Christ’s imminent return in his home town in Phrygia. There were also statements that Montanus himself either was, or at least specially spoke for, the Paraclete that Jesus had promised would come (in reality, the Holy Spirit).

Sabellianism (Early 3rd Century)

The Sabellianists taught that Jesus Christ and God the Father were not distinct persons, but two.aspects or offices of one person. According to them, the three persons of the Trinity exist only in God’s relation to man, not in objective reality.

Arianism (4th Century)

Arius taught that Christ was a creature made by God. By disguising his heresy using orthodox or near-orthodox terminology, he was able to sow great confusion in the Church. He was able to muster the support of many bishops, while others excommunicated him.

Arianism was solemnly condemned in 325 at the First Council of Nicaea, which defined the divinity of Christ, and in 381 at the First Council of Constantinople, which defined the divinity of the Holy Spirit. These two councils gave us the Nicene creed, which Catholics recite at Mass every Sunday.

Pelagianism (5th Century)

Pelagius denied that we inherit original sin from Adam’s sin in the Garden and claimed that we become sinful only through the bad example of the sinful community into which we are born. Conversely, he denied that we inherit righteousness as a result of Christ’s death on the cross and said that we become personally righteous by instruction and imitation in the Christian community, following the example of Christ. Pelagius stated that man is born morally neutral and can achieve heaven under his own powers. According to him, God’s grace is not truly necessary, but merely makes easier an otherwise difficult task.

Cont.

 

[Pax_et_Bonum]

Semi-Pelagianism (5th Century)

After Augustine refuted the teachings of Pelagius, some tried a modified version of his system. This, too, ended in heresy by claiming that humans can reach out to God under their own power, without God’s grace; that once a person has entered a state of grace, one can retain it through one’s efforts, without further grace from God; and that natural human effort alone can give one some claim to receiving grace, though not strictly merit it.

spNestorianism (5th Century)

This heresy about the person of Christ was initiated by Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople, who denied Mary the title of Theotokos (Greek: “God-bearer” or, less literally, “Mother of God”). Nestorius claimed that she only bore Christ’s human nature in her womb, and proposed the alternative title Christotokos (“Christ-bearer” or “Mother of Christ”).

Orthodox Catholic theologians recognized that Nestorius’s theory would fracture Christ into two separate persons (one human and one divine, joined in a sort of loose unity), only one of whom was in her womb. The Church reacted in 431 with the Council of Ephesus, defining that Mary can be properly referred to as the Mother of God, not in the sense that she is older than God or the source of God, but in the sense that the person she carried in her womb was, in fact, God incarnate (“in the flesh”).

There is some doubt whether Nestorius himself held the heresy his statements imply, and in this century, the Assyrian Church of the East, historically regarded as a Nestorian church, has signed a fully orthodox joint declaration on Christology with the Catholic Church and rejects Nestorianism. It is now in the process of coming into full ecclesial communion with the Catholic Church.

Monophysitism (5th Century)

Monophysitism originated as a reaction to Nestorianism. The Monophysites (led by a man named Eutyches) were horrified by Nestorius’s implication that Christ was two people with two different natures (human and divine). They went to the other extreme, claiming that Christ was one person with only one nature (a fusion of human and divine elements). They are thus known as Monophysites because of their claim that Christ had only one nature (Greek: mono = one; physis = nature).

Orthodox Catholic theologians recognized that Monophysitism was as bad as Nestorianism because it denied Christ’s full humanity and full divinity. If Christ did not have a fully human nature, then he would not be fully human, and if he did not have a fully divine nature then he was not fully divine.

Iconoclasm (7th and 8th Centuries)

This heresy arose when a group of people known as iconoclasts (literally, “icon smashers”) appeared, who claimed that it was sinful to make pictures and statues of Christ and the saints, despite the fact that in the Bible, God had commanded the making of religious statues (Ex. 25:18–20; 1 Chr. 28:18–19), including symbolic representations of Christ (cf. Num. 21:8–9 with John 3:14).

Cont.

 

[Pax_et_Bonum]

Catharism (11th Century)

Catharism was a complicated mix of non-Christian religions reworked with Christian terminology. The Cathars had many different sects; they had in common a teaching that the world was created by an evil deity (so matter was evil) and we must worship the good deity instead.

The Albigensians formed one of the largest Cathar sects. They taught that the spirit was created by God, and was good, while the body was created by an evil god, and the spirit must be freed from the body. Having children was one of the greatest evils, since it entailed imprisoning another “spirit” in flesh. Logically, marriage was forbidden, though fornication was permitted. Tremendous fasts and severe mortifications of all kinds were practiced, and their leaders went about in voluntary poverty.

Protestantism (16th Century)

Protestant groups display a wide variety of different doctrines. However, virtually all claim to believe in the teachings of sola scriptura (“by Scripture alone”—the idea that we must use only the Bible when forming our theology) and sola fide (“by faith alone”— the idea that we are justified by faith only).

The great diversity of Protestant doctrines stems from the doctrine of private judgment, which denies the infallible authority of the Church and claims that each individual is to interpret Scripture for himself. This idea is rejected in 2 Peter 1:20, where we are told the first rule of Bible interpretation: “First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation.” A significant feature of this heresy is the attempt to pit the Church “against” the Bible, denying that the magisterium has any infallible authority to teach and interpret Scripture.

The doctrine of private judgment has resulted in an enormous number of different denominations. According to The Christian Sourcebook, there are approximately 20-30,000 denominations, with 270 new ones being formed each year. Virtually all of these are Protestant.

Jansenism (17th Century)

Jansenius, bishop of Ypres, France, initiated this heresy with a paper he wrote on Augustine, which redefined the doctrine of grace. Among other doctrines, his followers denied that Christ died for all men, but claimed that he died only for those who will be finally saved (the elect). This and other Jansenist errors were officially condemned by Pope Innocent X in 1653.

Heresies have been with us from the Church’s beginning. They even have been started by Church leaders, who were then corrected by councils and popes. Fortunately, we have Christ’s promise that heresies will never prevail against the Church, for he told Peter, “You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it” (Matt. 16:18). The Church is truly, in Paul’s words, “the pillar and foundation of the truth” (1 Tim. 3:15).
**
catholic.com/library/Great_Heresies.a**

 

[Pax_et_Bonum]

I don’t want to derail the thread, so please PM me if you wish to discuss this subject further. I’ll just say here that the Jesuit teaching of probabilism and the notion that the end justifies the means (for example, in the case of lying) are quite different from what others in the Catholic Church have said.

And that is a damnbable heresy if true and is contrary to Catholic Teaching ergo not Catholic.The Jesuits as an order have constantly been in hot water with the magisterium at various times modern.

Jesuit Organization Founded

        Though it did not become an official organization until 1540, the Jesuits, or Society of Jesus, was started by just seven men who believed that they were called of Christ to make an alliance to go forth and do the work of the church wherever the pope sent them.  These men led by Ignatius of Loyola met with Francisco Xavier, Alfonso Salmeron, Diego Laínez, and Nicolás Bobadilla all from Spain, Peter Faber France, and Simão Rodrigues from Portugal in Paris to take vows of chastity and poverty.  By 1537 they approached the pope, received his blessing and were ordained priests.
        The majority of the early work of the society was to counteract the severe problems that had arisen as a result of the Protestant Reformation that had begun with Martin Luther.  The missionary work that took them around the world opened Catholicism to many new people but also managed to stir up the political pot when countries believed that their interests in other areas(specifically the colonies) was being affected.  The Jesuits were banned in many areas, despite the promptings of the pope, because of their influence in the area, though many of the European homesteads still remained Catholic.  Today, the society has the primary responsibility to oversee educational issues.

Boasting the largest order of priests within the Catholic Church, the Jesuits have nearly twenty thousand members in one hundred twelve countries on six continents. Along with their higher educational priorities, the Jesuits still do missionary work, fight for humanitarian aide, rights, and social equality. The Jesuit organization maintains over fifty colleges in the United States alone. The main problem facing the Jesuits today is the same liberal problems that faced the Catholic Church hundreds of years ago. These Liberal Jesuits have been condemned by the pope himself, yet they continue to preach doctrines that have not been approved by the Catholic Church. This along with the other scandals the Catholic Church have faced in recent years has damaged their credibility, yet they continue to move forward not allowing a few bad members to gain any more control of the progression of their mission to serve the church, and its leader the pope, to the best of their ability.

sussexvt.k12.de.us/science/The%20History%20of%20the%20World%201500-1899/Jesuit%20Organization%20Founded.htm

 

[Pax_et_Bonum]

The Divine Church is Christ’s Institution managed by sinful humans but protected by the Keys,Rock,Infallibility(TOTALLY misunderstood)the Teaching Authority granted Her-“Whoever hears you hears me.” and THE Promise that the Gates of Hell will never prevail against Her.

 

[meltzerboy]

Catharism (11th Century)

Catharism was a complicated mix of non-Christian religions reworked with Christian terminology. The Cathars had many different sects; they had in common a teaching that the world was created by an evil deity (so matter was evil) and we must worship the good deity instead.

The Albigensians formed one of the largest Cathar sects. They taught that the spirit was created by God, and was good, while the body was created by an evil god, and the spirit must be freed from the body. Having children was one of the greatest evils, since it entailed imprisoning another “spirit” in flesh. Logically, marriage was forbidden, though fornication was permitted. Tremendous fasts and severe mortifications of all kinds were practiced, and their leaders went about in voluntary poverty.

Protestantism (16th Century)

Protestant groups display a wide variety of different doctrines. However, virtually all claim to believe in the teachings of sola scriptura (“by Scripture alone”—the idea that we must use only the Bible when forming our theology) and sola fide (“by faith alone”— the idea that we are justified by faith only).

The great diversity of Protestant doctrines stems from the doctrine of private judgment, which denies the infallible authority of the Church and claims that each individual is to interpret Scripture for himself. This idea is rejected in 2 Peter 1:20, where we are told the first rule of Bible interpretation: “First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation.” A significant feature of this heresy is the attempt to pit the Church “against” the Bible, denying that the magisterium has any infallible authority to teach and interpret Scripture.

The doctrine of private judgment has resulted in an enormous number of different denominations. According to The Christian Sourcebook, there are approximately 20-30,000 denominations, with 270 new ones being formed each year. Virtually all of these are Protestant.

Jansenism (17th Century)

Jansenius, bishop of Ypres, France, initiated this heresy with a paper he wrote on Augustine, which redefined the doctrine of grace. Among other doctrines, his followers denied that Christ died for all men, but claimed that he died only for those who will be finally saved (the elect). This and other Jansenist errors were officially condemned by Pope Innocent X in 1653.

Heresies have been with us from the Church’s beginning. They even have been started by Church leaders, who were then corrected by councils and popes. Fortunately, we have Christ’s promise that heresies will never prevail against the Church, for he told Peter, “You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it” (Matt. 16:18). The Church is truly, in Paul’s words, “the pillar and foundation of the truth” (1 Tim. 3:15).
**
catholic.com/library/Great_Heresies.a**

Thank you, Pax et Bonum, for sending me all this very interesting information. Jews agree partially with Pelagius (perhaps he got some of his ideas from Judaism) in that they do not believe Man is born in original sin, but rather with the potential for good. On the other hand, Judaism disagrees with the Albigensians and the Gnostics in that Judaism does not believe the body or matter is evil.

 

[meltzerboy]

And that is a damnbable heresy if true and is contrary to Catholic Teaching ergo not Catholic.The Jesuits as an order have constantly been in hot water with the magisterium at various times modern.

Jesuit Organization Founded

        Though it did not become an official organization until 1540, the Jesuits, or Society of Jesus, was started by just seven men who believed that they were called of Christ to make an alliance to go forth and do the work of the church wherever the pope sent them.  These men led by Ignatius of Loyola met with Francisco Xavier, Alfonso Salmeron, Diego Laínez, and Nicolás Bobadilla all from Spain, Peter Faber France, and Simão Rodrigues from Portugal in Paris to take vows of chastity and poverty.  By 1537 they approached the pope, received his blessing and were ordained priests.
        The majority of the early work of the society was to counteract the severe problems that had arisen as a result of the Protestant Reformation that had begun with Martin Luther.  The missionary work that took them around the world opened Catholicism to many new people but also managed to stir up the political pot when countries believed that their interests in other areas(specifically the colonies) was being affected.  The Jesuits were banned in many areas, despite the promptings of the pope, because of their influence in the area, though many of the European homesteads still remained Catholic.  Today, the society has the primary responsibility to oversee educational issues.

Boasting the largest order of priests within the Catholic Church, the Jesuits have nearly twenty thousand members in one hundred twelve countries on six continents. Along with their higher educational priorities, the Jesuits still do missionary work, fight for humanitarian aide, rights, and social equality. The Jesuit organization maintains over fifty colleges in the United States alone. The main problem facing the Jesuits today is the same liberal problems that faced the Catholic Church hundreds of years ago. These Liberal Jesuits have been condemned by the pope himself, yet they continue to preach doctrines that have not been approved by the Catholic Church. This along with the other scandals the Catholic Church have faced in recent years has damaged their credibility, yet they continue to move forward not allowing a few bad members to gain any more control of the progression of their mission to serve the church, and its leader the pope, to the best of their ability.

sussexvt.k12.de.us/science/The%20History%20of%20the%20World%201500-1899/Jesuit%20Organization%20Founded.htm

I know about Jesuit teaching largely through a close friend of mine who studied with the Jesuits and is now a “very confused” Catholic.

 

[Holly3278]

Wow. How horrid! Suicide is never a good idea. There is always hope, even when it seems that there is none. I hope and pray that these professors repent.

 

[Pax_et_Bonum]

I know about Jesuit teaching largely through a close friend of mine who studied with the Jesuits and is now a “very confused” Catholic.

No doubt.They used to be referred to as the soldiers of the Church and they do attract brilliant minds but also prideful and disobedient ones.

The Future of the Jesuits?

by Russell Shaw - April 11, 2006

Reprinted with permission from our good friends at InsideCatholic.com, the leading online journal of Catholic faith, culture, and politics.

The beginning of the end for the Society of Jesus, the dawn of a new day, or just more of the same? The announcement in early February by Rev. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., superior general since 1983, that he would convoke a general congregation of the Jesuits in 2008 to elect his successor raises that question. Falling in numbers (36,000 worldwide in 1966 to around 21,000 now) yet still hugely powerful and corporately wedded to the role of not-too-loyal opposition in the Church, the Society’s place in Catholic life makes the fate of these highly trained activists and scholars a matter of immense importance.

Even today the Jesuits of the United States include many hard-working, orthodox, altogether admirable members. So what’s wrong with the rest? A young Jesuit wrote me last year suggesting an answer. The source of the trouble, he said, is “a great number of men who entered in the '60s and '70s [and] who remain very much attached to their notions of activism.” Many of these Jesuits, he declared, haven’t faced “the difficult question: What must I sacrifice to serve as a priest of the Catholic Church? Some still believe they can be well-meaning protestors, without accounting for the people they leave behind in the pews.”

The Society’s recent history hasn’t been happy. After Rev. Pedro Arrupe, S.J., 28th superior general, suffered a devastating stroke in 1981, Pope John Paul II attempted to rein in the Jesuits by putting his own men in charge. The effort failed, and in September 1983 a general congregation elected Father Kolvenbach, a Dutch linguistics specialist, the new general.

Controversy and decline have marked the Kolvenbach years. In Passionate Uncertainty (University of California Press, 2003), a study of American Jesuits, Peter McDonough and Eugene C. Bianchi depict the Society as a disturbingly gay-friendly environment. Not surprisingly, perhaps, several U.S. provincials were openly critical of the new Vatican document barring the ordination of confirmed homosexuals as priests. An anecdote suggests the flavor of Father Kolvenbach’s tenure. A Jesuit in mufti is said to have asked the general, attired in black cassock, why he always dressed like that. “I dress the way I do so that you can dress the way you do,” Father Kolvenbach replied. By being impeccable in word and deed himself, the general provided cover for his men.

The American Jesuits have suffered a particularly sharp fall in numbers since the 1960s, from 8,500 to around 3,300. But the Society still has major assets in this country, among them 28 colleges and universities, 48 secondary schools, and 80 parishes. Georgetown University is representative of what’s happened to the Jesuits in the last half-century. The 1950s Georgetown was a cloistered, conservative school; today it’s a model of academic political correctness, with a lay president, a dwindling Jesuit presence, and an attenuated Catholic identity. The Georgetown Jesuits moved into a lavish new residence overlooking the Potomac a few years ago. On a visit, I heard an elderly Jesuit complaining of the “scandal” of religious living so high on the hog.

The general congregation in January 2008 will be the Society’s 35th since its founding by St. Ignatius Loyola in 1540. About 200 Jesuits from around the world will take part. Announcing the gathering, Father Kolvenbach cited section 680 of the Jesuit Constitutions, on the need for communal discernment about difficult questions facing the Society.

“Some of my brothers have lost their way,” the young Jesuit wrote. “Things did not always go the way they imagined they would, and their heartbreak is something I see. But I also support them and ask them to see the future in new, more honest terms.” We should all pray for that.

catholicity.com/commentary/rshaw/00075.html