Pope Leo met with a number major superiors of Jesuits at the Vatican. They all seem to be dressed in some form of clerics for this meeting, which is good to see. If I am not mistaken, it seems that Pope Leo is requiring proper dress at the Vatican of priests and prelates and those meeting with him. Perhaps sloppiness in the Vatican is being vanquished and Pope Leo is returning to Pope Benedict's more formal expectations?
His Holiness had much to say, but what I print below is a bombshell, specifically for Jesuits longing for the 1970's to return and living as though the 1970's have never passed:
The urgency to proclaim the Gospel today is as great as in the time of Saint Ignatius. The Lord says through the prophet Isaiah: “I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not see it?” (Isa 43:19) Your mission, dear brothers, is to help the world perceive this newness — to sow hope where despair seems dominant, to bring light where darkness reigns.
To accomplish this, I encourage you to remain close to Jesus. As the Gospel tells us, the first disciples stayed with him “the whole day” (cf. Jn 1). Remain with him through private prayer, the celebration of the Sacraments, devotion to his Sacred Heart and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. In a different yet still powerful way, remain with him by recognizing his presence in community life. From this rootedness, you will have the courage to walk anywhere: to speak truth, to reconcile, to heal, to labor for justice, to set captives free. No frontier will be beyond your reach if you walk with Christ.
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Via his address in question, Pope Leo XIV...
-- Praised the Society of Jesus.
-- Promoted Synodality.
-- Denounced the world's unequal, unjust, distribution of wealth.
-- Called attention to the world's climate/ecological crisis.
-- Promoted Adoration.
Examples:
Praised the Jesuits:
"The Society of Jesus has long been present where humanity’s needs meet God’s saving love: through spiritual guidance, intellectual formation, service among the poor and Christian witness at cultural frontiers.
"Indeed, Saint Paul VI said: “Wherever in the Church, even in the most difficult and extreme fields, at the crossroads of ideologies… there have been, and there are, Jesuits”.
"Today, I repeat: the Church needs you at the frontiers — whether they be geographical, cultural, intellectual or spiritual."
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Promoted Synodality:
"A major frontier today is the path of synodality within the Church.
"The synodal journey calls all of us to listen more deeply to the Holy Spirit and to one another, so that our structures and ministries may be more agile, more transparent, and more responsive to the Gospel.
"I thank you for your contributions to the synodal process, especially in helping ecclesial communities discern how to walk together in hope."
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Walk with poor...oppose the unequal distribution of wealth.
"Your second preference calls you to walk with the poor, the outcasts of the world and those whose dignity has been violated. Many today are victims of an economic system driven by profit above the dignity of the person.
"In my recent Exhortation, Dilexi Te, I emphasized the need to confront “the dictatorship of an economy that kills,” where the wealth of a few grows exponentially while the majority are left behind (cf. 92)."
"This global imbalance pushes countless people to migrate in search of survival. They leave home, culture and family, often facing rejection and hostility."
"True discipleship requires both denunciation of injustice and the proposal of new models rooted in solidarity and the common good."
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The world's climate/ecological crisis.
"Your fourth preference, caring for our common home, responds to a cry that is both human and divine. As Pope Francis affirmed in Laudato Si’, “Young people demand change.
"They wonder how anyone can claim to be building a better future without thinking of the environmental crisis”.
"Ecological conversion is deeply spiritual; it is about renewing our relationship with God, with one another and with creation."
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Adoration.
"To accomplish this, I encourage you to remain close to Jesus. As the Gospel tells us, the first disciples stayed with him “the whole day” (cf. Jn 1).
"Remain with him through private prayer, the celebration of the Sacraments, devotion to his Sacred Heart and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament."
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"My hope for the Society of Jesus is that you may read the signs of the times with spiritual depth; that you embrace what promotes human dignity and reject what diminishes it; that you be agile, creative, discerning and always in mission — “in fieri,” as Pope Francis said at your last General Congregation (Address to the 36th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, 24 October 2016)."
Pax.
Mark Thomas
The Jesuit Order should be either disbanded or reformed because they are violating their 4th vow.
It is not within the competence of failed choir directors, queenie or otherwise, to determine which religious institutes are properly living out their vows, are in need of reform or need to be suppressed.
This is a uniquely Protestant approach to curing government.
This jurisdiction belongs to the superior general, their counselors, the general chapter, the Dicastry for Institutes of Consecrated Life, and the Bishop of Rome.
This is just one of the problems with low information, fake Catholics trying to weigh in about matters of internal church discipline.
The internet truly is the wild Wild West!!
*Church governance
The Jesuit Order should be either disbanded or reformed because they are violating their 4th vow.
Shame you don’t get to decide that TJM.
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