So I came across this article today about Catholic Universities, and in particular Jesuit Univ.'s, losing, and not caring, about their Catholic Identity. It is a shame. So much lukewarmness (in my own heart as well), so much that holds us back, because we forget that Jesus has broken the bonds. I thought the last paragraph wrapped up the whole article and the poor state Jesuit Universities are in today. This quote speaks of wealth and what it does to us.

"I found myself thinking as I left Georgetown that the great problem besetting not just the Jesuits but the Catholic Church in America and the Western world more generally is wealth. Penury provides its own discipline, prosperity undermines it. The great challenge for the Jesuits, for Georgetown, and for many other Catholic institutions will be to find a way to preserve the Faith in the hazardous milieu of material abundance. Opus Dei grapples with the problem. The Jesuits may have been overcome by it. They warn us of the material hazards of poverty, as though the real problem with Dewar's and single-malt whiskey is that not everyone can afford it. Jesus warned us of the spiritual hazards of wealth. It's a message we should heed."

Doesn't that say alot? Particularly the second to last line. I know some older Jesuits that rant and rave about Justice and about the rights of men and women to practice homosexual lifestyles, all the while sipping their scotch forgetting that they too have need of repentance and discipleship. Let us follow. Fiat voluntas tua!