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The Jesuits: Nearing the End
By Stephen J. Morrissey
The Jesuits: Nearing the End is a comprehensive study of the tragic mistakes made by the Society of Jesus ("the Jesuits") over the past century, leading to its drastic decline numerically, theologically, and morally. Their decline also introduced into the wider Catholic Church the many condemned heresies of modernism including moral relativism, prioritization of social justice work over evangelization, abandon-ment of missionary apostolates, and replacement of Church and Scriptural authority with private judgement and “the God Within.”
Chief architects of the self-inflicted decline were Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner who led most of the Society after the Second Vatican Council into the heresies of modernism, and Pedro Arrupe, S.J., post-Vatican II superior general of the Society who "modernized" Jesuit seminary formation and replaced the Society's renowned missionary apostolate with a non-religious humanitarianism and social justice that extended even to liberation war involvement. Arrupe carried these mistakes into the Society's many universities and high schools, to many clergy and hierarchy in the wider Catholic Church, and to the papacy and legacy of Jesuit Pope Francis.
In several hundred quotes and citations, the author enlists the authority of over one hundred fifty scholars. Relevant points of doctrinal and moral theology are thoroughly explained in an accessible manner for those at all levels of participation in Catholic life. The Church desperately needs the reform of what was once her most influential religious order.
What scholars say about The Jesuits: Nearing the End:
"It is not the least of the merits of Stephen Morrissey's wide-ranging and deeply probing work to catalog exhaustively the contrasts and contradictions between the 'unreformed' Jesuits and their modern(ized) descendents who often have no more than a name in common. Fr. Pedro Arrupe's
betrayal of the Ignatian vision, Rahner's and Teilhard's betrayal of theology, the Society's betrayal of the Sacred Heart, the emergence and dominance of Jesuit progressivism and its culmination in the pontificate of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ, are some of the key themes pursued in these riveting pages, documented from source after source in a crescendo of critique." ––Peter Kwasniewski, Ph.D., Author of Tradition & Sanity
"In a time of widespread confusion and ideological drift within the Church, this book courageously exposes the role that the leaders of the Society of Jesus played in contributing to this confusion through their embrace of a duplicitous reading of the “spirit of Vatican II” to justify unwarranted reforms in pursuit of modernity. Identifying the Jesuit perpetrators and suggesting their motivation, Morrissey’s book is a must-read for Catholics trying to understand how the once faithful Order lost its way." –– Dr. Anne Hendershott, Professor of Sociology, Franciscan University of Steubenville
"Stephen Morrissey's book The Jesuits: Nearing the End is both a scholarly achievement and a delight to read as a Catholic. It is well-written and well-argued, evidencing a thorough degree of scholarly research. The pertinent theologians, commentators and thinkers are referenced. Karl Rahner is dealt with in an exceptional and balanced manner. The social, ecclesial, and political context is consistently examined with rererence to the wider and historical Society of Jesus. The distinction between the traditional Jesuits and the post-Vatican II Jesuits (e.g. the Rahnerian Jesuits) is clearly explained and described in the light of modernism. Under Superior General Arrupe, the Society became a cult. Because the Jesuits have replaced the true gospel with the gospel of social justice they have no one central and criterial identity, which means they lack a guiding hermeneutic.” –– Dr. Charles James, Professor of Philosophy, retired, St. Patrick’s Seminary