In Chapter Six of my soon-to-be published The Smoke of Satan in the Temple of God., I recount how bishops were given the message from Rome not to admonish Catholics who chose to contracept after neomodernist theologians hoodwinked them into believing that it was morally permissible, this so as not to create division in the Church. This of course resulted in division in the Church. It is heart warming on this the feast of the Assumption to see Catholic bishops fulfilling their role as set down in thje teaching of Vatican II!
That’s a credit to him, that he at least had pangs of conscience; whereas these other orders, like the Jesuits, even when they saw that the IHMs were almost extinct, nevertheless they invited the same team in. Oh, yes. Well, actually we started with the Jesuits before we started with the nuns. We did our first Jesuit workshop in ‘65. Rogers got two honorary doctorates from Jesuit universities…. A good book to read on this whole question is Fr. Joseph Becker’s The Re-FormedJesuits. It reviews the collapse of Jesuit training between 1965 and 1975. Jesuit formation virtually fell apart; and Father Becker knows the influence of the Rogerians pretty well. He cites a number of Jesuit novice masters who claimed that the authority for what they did—and didn’t do—was Carl Rogers. Later on when the Jesuits gave Rogers those honorary doctorates, I think that they wanted to credit him with his influence on the Jesuit way of life. But do you think there were any short-term beneficial...

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