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Subject Sunday Spotlight: Mistreated Jesuits
Date December 14, 2025 5:59 AM
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** PRESENTS
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SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT
Icon Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.


** H. W. Longfellow
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Silenced, shunned, or libeled in death. From the archive, three authors reflect on three Jesuits who had rocky relationships within the order: Fr. Jean Danielou, SJ, Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ, and Fr. Henri de Lubac, SJ.
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** Despising Jean Danielou ([link removed])
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** MATTHEW SCHMITZ
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His fellow Jesuits were rankled by an interview where he said that religious orders had succumbed to “decadence” stemming from “a false interpretation of Vatican II.”
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FROM JANUARY 2025


** The Lessons of Fr. Paul Mankowski ([link removed])
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** MARY EBERSTADT
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Renowned among the Catholic cognoscenti for his intellect, he was first and foremost a humble priest.
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FROM MAY 2023


** Blessed Henri de Lubac? ([link removed])
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** GEORGE WEIGEL
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When he was named a cardinal by John Paul II, his Jesuit brethren in France, many of whom regarded him as a theological turncoat, behaved abominably.
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