Liberal Jesuits made a Mistake!

Liberal Jesuits made a Mistake!
cinops be gone March 31, 2008
We love our Jesuits but in 1964 their advice was a historic catastrophe for the Catholic Church, Catholic politicians, and America. They presumed that the future Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 was a legally-well thought Constitutional Supreme Court decision. It was not. The liberal Jesuits proceeded to adjust to the court decision. Instead of fighting this court decision; they accepted it.
This is a fly in the ointment of liberal Catholic thought and needs to be removed and repudiated either by the Jesuits or the Catholic Church. It will not stand. It will not go away. You decide!

“But even in those days, before Roe v. Wade decision, the stage was already being set for a Catholic capitulation on the abortion issue. And Ted Kennedy should have been aware of the plot, because it was hatched under the auspices of his family. Most Americans were taken by surprise by the Roe decision (1973), which struck down state laws restricting abortion. But the Kennedys were ready; for the better part of a decade they had been preparing their rhetoric for such an opportunity.
“In July 1964, several liberal theologians received invitations to the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis port, Massachusetts, for a discussion of how a Catholic politician should handle the abortion issue. Notice now that abortion was not a major political issue in 1964. Ostensibly the meeting has been called to provide advice for Robert Kennedy, who was running for a New York Senate seat. But a candidate was not likely to face questions about abortion in 1964; the Kennedy planners had the more distant future in mind.
“The participants in that Hyannisport meeting composed a Who’s Who of liberal theologians, most of them Jesuits. Father Robert Drinan was there, as was Father Charles Curran (the leader in the dissent against Hunanae Vitae; his writings on moral issues were later condemned by the Vatican). Father Joseph Fuchs, a Jesuit professor at Rome’s Gregorian University, was on hand; so were the Jesuits Richard McCormick, Albert Jonsen, and Giles Milhaven. (Milhaven was later instrumental in the early public works of ‘Catholics for a Free Choice;’ McCormick would become the Rose Kennedy professor of the Kennedy Institute for Bioethics at Georgetown University, & spend years teaching theology at N.D.
“For two days the theologians huddled in the Cap Code resort town as guests of the Kennedys. Eventually they reached a consensus, which they passed along to their political patrons. Abortion, they agreed, could sometimes be morally acceptable as the lesser of two evils. Lawmakers should certainly not encourage abortion, but a blanket prohibition might be more harmful to the common good than a law allowing abortion in some cases. And a danger to the common good would very likely arise if political leaders sought to impose their own private views on public policy.
“The conference at Hyannisport offered a rare example of teamwork between academic theologians and practical politicians. The skillful operatives of the Kennedy family would round up the votes to end restrictions on abortion and eventually to provide public subsidies. The Jesuit theologians would provide protective cover for that effort, ensuring that Catholic colleges, universities, and theological journals gave a sympathetic reading to the politicians’ public statem.”
The above from Chapter 6, Waiting for Roe in Philip F. Lawler’s book, The Faithful Departed The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture, Encounter B. 2008
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.