What Religious Orders have a reputation for being "liberal" or "progressive?"

[GerardP]

Interesting. I’m west coast; the Norbertine seminary here is an old Austrian seminary that due to persecution was relocated to the US- all the seminarians are taught the TLM, and all priests are very orthodox.

It’s both funny and moreso tragic, I was taught by Norbertines (not necessarily Catholicism) and they are a dwindling, aging bunch over here.

They are fully aware that the West Coast Norbertines are growing and seeing a lot of good fruit in their work but they either don’t want to admit or can’t see why. And the fact that the West Coast Norbertines are “conservative” (ie traditional) confuses them even more.

They haven’t figured out that liberalism, faithlessness and rampant homosexuality aren’t a good prescription for holiness.

 

[GerardP]

What about Father Fessio? The truth is that there are good and bad priests in every order. Find the order whose spirituality you find most compatible with yours, and if you encounter a problem with progressivism, work from the inside to fix it.

Fessio is more liberal than you might think. Years ago he was on Peter Robinson’s show and his wishes for the next papacy would be a Pope who would de-centralize the power in the Church away from Rome even more than JPII did.

Fr. Vincent Miceli was the classic Jesuit.

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[WH1988]

Jesuits are awfully progressive, at least here in Portugal. My experience is: run away from them as fast as you can. They spend their time on “outdoor masses” and “teen masses” filled with abuses, “intereligious conferences”, etc.

The people who frequents the Jesuits also tends to call you “pharisee” with disdain if you show some sign of ortodoxy, and they seem to spend more time criticizing Opus Dei than defending Catholicism.

Run from them.

 

[GerardP]

Jesuits are awfully progressive, at least here in Portugal. My experience is: run away from them as fast as you can. They spend their time on “outdoor masses” and “teen masses” filled with abuses, “intereligious conferences”, etc.

The people who frequents the Jesuits also tends to call you “pharisee” with disdain if you show some sign of ortodoxy, and they seem to spend more time criticizing Opus Dei than defending Catholicism.

Run from them.

Progressive is putting it mildly. I was at a wedding once and the Jesuit who witnessed the marriage spent a good portion of the reception telling the groom which men attending the wedding he found sexually attractive.

 

[PKinsale]

It’s both funny and moreso tragic, I was taught by Norbertines (not necessarily Catholicism) and they are a dwindling, aging bunch over here.

They are fully aware that the West Coast Norbertines are growing and seeing a lot of good fruit in their work but they either don’t want to admit or can’t see why. And the fact that the West Coast Norbertines are “conservative” (ie traditional) confuses them even more.

They haven’t figured out that liberalism, faithlessness and rampant homosexuality aren’t a good prescription for holiness.

The Norbertine site for those interested is St. Michael’s Abbey in Orange County, www.abbeynews.com for the link. I went to the high school there, back in the day. WONDERFUL priests.

 

[bkovacs]

The BlackFriars (Dominicans) of Oxford in the UK seem fairly orthodox.