Over at Substack… I’m taking baby steps there… I posted about Jesuit Thomas Reese’s latest idiocy at RNS. He compares the Traditional Latin Mass to a zombie, because it won’t die.
Along the way, I note that Jesuits are supposed to be zombies. No. Really. Here is an excerpt from my post:
About that zombie image. The irony is rich. Aren’t Jesuits supposed to obey without ego, perinde ac cadaver? Their superior’s will virtually replacing their own “as if they were a corpse”! Yes, I read that somewhere…
They live in obedience, they must allow themselves to be led and ruled by divine providence through their Superiors, just as if they were a corpse… Obedientia vivunt, se ferri ac regi a divina providentia per Superiores suos, sinere debent, perinde ac si cadaver essent… 1583 Constitutiones Societatis Iesu, VI.1
Who, again, are the zombies?
Anyway, the post is “alive” over there.
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