Comments on: Boston Law’s “Gang of 22″

By: JSinAZ

JSinAZ — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:02:11 +0000

Consider this from the excerpted section:

[...]his role as a symbol for waterboarding conflicts with “the ideals of Boston College Law School and [its] Jesuit principles.”

Does that mean if (let’s say, for argument’s sake) that the Papacy’s role as a symbol for Holocaust abetment were formost in Boston College’s collective mind, that the Jesuits would have to remove themselves from the campus? This, from supposedly edumacated legal scholars?

By: martin

martin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:01:04 +0000

RE #12
Please don’t use the term “intellectual” and liberal in the same sentence.

These days, intellectuals seem to be mostly self-described as such, and are really just liberal morons who like to prognosticate about things that they don’t understand, usually to audiences that agree with them, and in ways that frustrate any sort of verification or validation.

I have worked with numerous actual geniuses, all of them in science and technology, and not one would accept the title “intellectual”. I don’t think that there are too many people with M.A.’s or Ph.D’s in liberal arts that qualify for the title.

By: SPQR

SPQR — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:07:50 +0000

I attended Loyola Law School of Los Angeles and used to get my giggles quoting Ignatius Loyola.

By: assistant devil's advocate

assistant devil's advocate — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:10:41 +0000

nk, if it’s anything like the erotic spanking session i had years and years ago with two young nuns about to take their final vows, i’d say bring it on.

By: nk

nk — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:31:13 +0000

I bet it’s more like dreaming of coming to Oregon to bitch-slap some pagan hermit, ada.

By: assistant devil's advocate

assistant devil's advocate — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:03:27 +0000

yes, jesuits can be liberal (as i recall, the berrigan brothers were jesuit). they have a reputation for being aggressive in expanding the reach of their faith, argumentative in the same sense as talmudic scholars, hair-splitting and somewhat devious. then there's the black pope, whom some conspiratorialists see as more powerful than the better known "vicar of christ". the most intriguing part of the foregoing wikipedia link is the assertion that when the pope, that is, the real pope, sins, the "black pope", aka the superior general of the jesuits, performs "reconciliation" for him. inquiring minds want to know more about papal sins. when was the last time one was acknowledged? are these just minor peccadillos like coveting your neighbor's hot wife, or are they more substantial, like wild monkeysex with your neighbor's hot wife? i've heard about the borgias and medicis, i'd like to hear about john paul and benedict.

By: DRJ

DRJ — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:48:40 +0000

I think you’re all right about the liberal Jesuits. It’s been a long time since I read a Tom Clancy/Jack Ryan book but, in those days, I was sort-of liberal, too.

By: nk

nk — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:11:52 +0000

The Jesuits have always been the intellectuals and liberals of the Church. It’s the Dominicanes (The Lord’s Dogs) who are the Inquisitors. I graduated Loyola in 1982 and my Constitutional Law professor was a regional director of the ACLU. My Civil Procedure professor was a civil rights activist in the South in the ’50s.

By: Mike K

Mike K — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:12 +0000

I suspect those pompous BC faculty members are ignorant of the parallel discussion that went on about why Kerry, a Yale grad, had no better option than a crappy law school like BC. I saw some recent discussion that his less-than-honorable discharge doomed his Harvard Law School application back when Harvard cared about things like that. What does the Bible say, “Humble yourself and you shall be exalted ” ? You’d think Jesuits would have read that part.

By: martin

martin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:58:06 +0000

I know someone who teaches at another Jesuit U, liberal to the core.

The Catholic “pink mafia” has taken over Catholic higher ed.