Geesh. If a priest said something that dismissive about Jews because they were Jews, I wouldn’t want him at my parish. If a priest said something that dismissive about blacks because they are black, I wouldn’t want him at my parish. If a priest said something that dismissive about Hispanics, Muslims, Buddhists, homosexuals, women, atheists, or any children of God, I wouldn’t want him at my parish. The same goes for saying something that dismissive about my sons simply because of their skin color, even if it happens to be the priest’s skin color as well. Evil doesn’t stop being evil because I say it about my own, even if it’s what all the people at the best Hollywood parties with T&A say I should. I’m thankful, no matter what problems my parish has, that as of now, it has no priest like that.
Go here to comment. An excellent comment has been made by Nate Winchester:
Said it before, I’ll say it again: just take CS Lewis’ “dangers of national repentance” essay and replace “national” with “racial.”
here I’ll do it now:
“And repentance presupposes condemnation. The first and fatal charm of [racial] repentance is, therefore, the encouragement it gives us to turn from the bitter task of repenting our own sins to the congenial one of bewailing but, first, of denouncing the conduct of others. If it were clear to the young that this is what he is doing, no doubt he would remember the law of charity. Unfortunately the very terms in which [racial] repentance is recommended to him conceal its true nature. By a dangerous figure of speech, he calls the [race] not ‘they’ but ‘we’. And since, as penitents, we are not encouraged to be charitable to our own sins, nor to give ourselves the benefit of any doubt, a [race] which is called ‘we’ is ipso facto placed beyond the sphere of charity or even of justice. You can say anything you please about it. You can indulge in the popular vice of detraction without restraint, and yet feel all the time that you are practising contrition. A group of such young penitents will say, ‘Let us repent our [racial] sins’; what they mean is, ‘Let us attribute to our neighbour (even our Christian neighbour) whenever we disagree with him, every abominable motive that Satan can suggest to our fancy.’
One of the most ignored of Christ’s parables is the Pharisee and the Tax Collector:
Pride, Lucifer’s sin, is the deadliest of sins, and I know this personally to my sorrow. What I find most irritating about the Jesuits, beyond the heterodoxy and the banal, unthinking Leftism, is the fact that a good many of them appear to be such utter condescending snots, an attitude as far from Christ as it is possible to be,
“What I find most irritating about the Jesuits, beyond the heterodoxy and the banal, unthinking Leftism, is the fact that a good many of them appear to be such utter condescending snots, an attitude as far from Christ as it is possible to be.” Gee whiz! Some of my best friends are Jesuits.
Some of my best friends Bob are attorneys! There are exceptions to every rule.
My grandparents belonged to a Minnesota parish that was staffed by German Jesuits. One announced from the pulpit, ” Don’t invite us to your homes for dinner because we are far better educated and more intelligent than you are.” My grandfather, a GP, and his father-in-law, thought the comment hilarious. That great grandfather, ehen orphened at 16, was offered a job with a German couple who were on there way to Minnesota. He became a self made man who donated big bucks to the parish. I would guess the Jesuits got off their high horses when WW! started and all services were subsequently conducted in English. We did have a Jesuit relative in St. Louis who was beloved by the family.
left wing nutjobs need to travel and live overseas. Outside of the US they will find real racism
Don,
You hit the nail right on the head, Pride is a strong temptation to the learned. Don’t let it go to your head, it’s so obvious. 🙂
I love this saying:
“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder”.
It pairs well with:
“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
Malchi Martin exposed Jezzie heresy in his book “Jesuits” – the intellectual conceit has been ravaging that order since George Tyrell and the fraud Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The scandal of Liberation Theology is their great badge of honor – their proud fealty to atheistic totalitarianism. JPII should have suppressed the order when they defied and insulted him. But — Fr Spitzer seems an stark exception – I recall the sadness in his face at a DC conference on the Shroud of Turin when he lamented “we’re not supposed to talk about miracles.”.