I went to a Jesuit High School. I always tried to be a sincere and devout Catholic. As such, I was often at odds with many of my instructors; lay and religious. Several years after I graduated, I read a book by Malachi Martin, titled: “The Jesuits…” I was shocked at how accurate his descriptions were of “Jesuit Education.” For example: he outlined nearly letter for letter and word for word the instruction I received on the sacraments. It was as though he was writing from my own classroom notes from sophomore theology. During those years, I thought it was simply more Catholic heterodoxy, but after reading that book, I realized it was quite a bit more organized and systemic than that.
Since reading that book, I have read several other histories of the Jesuits and their founder. I have consumed book after book and article after article written by Jesuit priests and brothers. I can say with all honesty and complete sadness that the Jesuit order is in grave trouble.
Despite warnings and censure, many in their ranks continuously scoff at the authority of the Pope and the magisterium. The order has been hijacked by those who seem to want nothing more than to promote anti-papalism, anti-Catholicism, the homosexual agenda, and any other heterodox position.
While it brings me no joy to write these things, I think that we too often refrain from commentary in order to avoid hostility toward others or criticizing others in the Church. However, it is my observation that many, if not most in the Jesuit order and those like them, would use our silence to further their own agenda.
I have heard individuals on EWTN and other orthodox outlets criticize Malachi Martin as a firebrand or a dooms-dayer. But his book spoke the truth about the Jesuits; the truth as I witnessed it first-hand. A good and devout Jesuit is a beautiful thing, but increasingly rare. I love Fr. Mitch, Cardinal Dulles, and those like them, but they are the exception rather than the rule. I have met several other orthodox Jesuits over the years and they relate the very same problems that I have touched on here. Many of them have even explained in detail the cancer that has overcome their order. More than one told me of his ordeal with homosexuals and other deviants. More than one told me that he was labeled a trouble-maker, too rigid, and even sent to counseling.
In truth, as stated in Martin’s book, Ignatius Loyola himself would never be admitted to the Jesuits of today.
