Traditional Jesuits

  What is a liberal?   Plato views the souls as having three powers:intellect, will and passions.  He uses the analogy of a chariot to explain.  The horses represent the concupiscent and irascible appetites - the passions.  The driver is the intellect, and the reins represent the will.  As long as the intellect controls the passions by means of the will the man goes well but when the passions dominate the intellect then there is trouble.  Spiritual combat is in part the battle between the sense appetites (also called affects or passions ) and the will directed by reason.  St. Ignatius wrote his Spiritual Exercises as a means "to conquer oneself, organize one's life without being moved by disordered affections" The traditional view is that one needs to control the passions by exerting the will so as to order oneself in line with the natural order of things.  The liberal on the other hand thinks that freedom is giving free rein to  the passions, the

A good homily. Sermon for the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost: America, Suffering, and the Mystery of Evil by Father Richard G. Cipolla From the second chapter of the First Letter of Paul to the Corinithians. “For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified…that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of man but in the power of God”. The contrast is quite stark.    There is the beautifully tanned news anchor with the most beautifully coiffed white hair to be seen anywhere, opening the mainstream news with his solemn face.    There are various faces:    the smiley face that introduces some heartwarming story, the knowing face that introduces a story that only a non-thinking person would believe, the serious yet knowing face that introduces a story that only he really understands and pity the poor slobs who do not understand what this is really about.    But Thursday evening there was the solemn face in Dallas. The solemnity