Vatican ousts Jesuit as magazine editor

US Catholic editor resigns after clash with Pope
Philip Sherwell in Washington
(Filed: 08/05/2005)


"A liberal American Jesuit has been forced to resign as the editor of a Roman Catholic magazine after several years of tense relations with the Vatican doctrinal office that was headed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before he was elected Pope Benedict XVI last month.


Fr Thomas Reese lost the editorship of America after pressure from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, according to The National Catholic Reporter, which broke the news. His clashes with the Congregation began four years ago when America ran articles critical of Dominus Jesus, a document produced by Cardinal Ratzinger's office which outlined the supremacy of Catholicism over other faiths and denominations.


At one stage, the congregation threatened to appoint censors to oversee the magazine's contents if the Jesuits did not rein it in.


After Cardinal Ratzinger became Pope, Fr Reese argued that the Vatican should consider scrapping celibacy for priests and ordaining women.


"A Church that cannot openly discuss issues is a Church retreating into an intellectual ghetto," he wrote in an editorial." <more>

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Saw this on story on NBC news this morning. Another example of liberal religious voices being shut down.

(Maybe he needs a magazine with private funding - I assume that the Church pays for this).

Jesuits have always been iconoclasts. I know quite a few people who went to Jesuit schools - including my dad - and they tend to come out with a solid grip on reality and a really warped sense of humor, not to mention an excellent education.

i too met a few jesuits, and they seemed indifferent to so much news while still very active in the cause (my friend father Martin Royackers was murdered in Jamaica in 2001 where he ran a community farm assistance program)....the jesuits contain both best and worst of the Catholic church
http://students.loyola.ca/services/csp/royackers/medalblurb.htm

Martin once parked a tractor on a hill, then strolled over to a haying operation in the next field....when the wagon was loaded, i went to fetch the tractor, but it had disappeared! I looked down hill and there sticking outta the bush was gleam of tractor nose....it had rolled backward hundreds of feet past huge trees etc to come to rest in thick brush, a few scratches was only damage. Martin greeted the news with mild embarassment...lol