MDMD Jesuits -- NYRB article

[Doug Millison]

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15222

"[...] When my son and some friends asked for a course in Greek at the
Jesuit high school he attended in the 1970s, he was told there was no
longer a market for that. Without the order's trademark discipline, and
with more lay teachers than Jesuits in "Jesuit schools," an obvious move,
one might think, would be to turn over "secular" subjects to the laity and
reserve theology classes to the Jesuits. But the order is chary of that
move, since so many Jesuits disagree with the teachings of church
authority. They know the Society is suspect in Rome, and is being specially
targeted for the enforcement of the papal document Ex corde ecclesiae
(1990), putting all theology teachers in Catholic schools under the
scrutiny of the local bishop. Some Jesuits try to avoid trouble by teaching
"spirituality," often with an emphasis on Eastern religions, rather than
Catholic theology. [...]"

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