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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They only send out an email if they feel there is damage control to be done. As all current parents know, communication from SR is carefully controlled and managed. They parse words more carefully than lawyers sometimes.

The Laura Ingraham segment was very mild. If one of the conservative Catholic news outlets decided to do a piece on SR it would be WAY worse.[/quote]

And Jesus copped a lot of blow back from the pharisees. Far right Conservative Catholics getting steamed about teaching social justice when the catholic church enabled child sex abusers on six continents for decades look morally untethered from reality.

The Jesuits (male equivalent of the Scared Heart order) have had heavy emphasis on DEI teachings And practice for decades. I woukd oay much more attention to their views than a professional hothead like LI. [/quote]

Firstly, the Jesuits are in an inexorable decline. Like all progressive religious institutions. The number of Jesuits has fallen by 70% since the 1950s.

Secondly, Jesus' issue with the Pharisees was that they observed the outward forms of religious observance, while their hearts were empty inside.

[quote]This people honors Me only with lip service, while their hearts are far from Me.[/quote]

One might refer to progressive Catholics who pick and choose what they want to believe as Catholic Pharisees.

In contrast to "Catholic pharisaism," real Catholicism is about being madly in love with Christ, [b]which includes following the rules of the Church, the Body of Christ,[/b] as a means to become one with Christ. Your own personal views and preferences are immaterial in this.[/quote]

First, the Jesuits are not in decline all around the world but numbers are steeply declining in USA and Europe, and to a lesser extent Latin America. They remain the largest religious order in the world, and their numbers are growing on the highly populous continents of Africa and South Asia. They remain a highly relevant moral force to be reckoned with.

http://nineteensixty-four.blogspot.com/2018/12/jesuit-global-demographics-in-2018.html

Pope Francis is the first Jesuit pope, and many people admire his heart for mercy and kindness, even though he has made serious mistakes in the past in Argentina. His early inexperience and authoritarian approach as a Jesuit leader in Argentina in the 1970s, led him to make the Catholic church complicit in military abuses and kidnappings of social justice minded Christians during that era of dictatorship/ Dirty War (up to 30,000 people, known as the disappeared, were kidnapped and presumed killed).  The pope showed humility, deep regret and ongoing mercy. He has learned from his mistakes, and tries to listen to different points of view within the Catholic Church, which is a big part of DEI education - opening up minds to experiences of others, especially people of color who generally face much harsher realities.

Re: reference to Pharisees and why Jesus had issues with their superficial religiosity  - yes exactly!

It is good Sacred Heart schools are wrestling with social justice. We are all sinners and we all make mistakes. The Bible has over 2,000 relevant references to social mercy, and empowering and including the vulnerable, the lonely and the widely despised. We are not all going to agree on what social justice means but in this historical moment, we have to try.

The latest affinity v accountability workshop was clumsy, but the intentions are good and more conversations are needed. Let them learn from missteps and grow in reflecting God’s love, mercy and kindness. Let them figure out how to talk about truly difficult issues respectfully.

We can learn from our brothers, the Jesuits.
Jesuits and Social Justice

In: Journal of Jesuit Studies

https://brill.com/view/journals/jjs/6/4/article-p651_651.xml?language=en[/quote]

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