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What They Knew
With the Boy Scouts of America in the news recently it would seem that the barking and howling from Bill Donohue would be at a fevered pitch. The Los Angeles Times this week uncovered abuse in the Boy Scouts, HERE.
Leaving aside the anthropology and history of the Boy Scouts (and the Jesuits for that matter) as an imperialist / colonial institution… what happens when you combine a Jesuit with a Boy Scout?
The answer is a disaster of epic proportions, or otherwise known in the California Province as Fr. Jerold Lindner SJ. Besides being an epic abuser of children and still a Jesuit to this day, Lindner was active in the Boy Scouts for seemingly 50 years. One wonders where his boy Scout files are… any complaints there?
Jerold Lindner SJ application to the Society of Jesus was initially rejected by the order, according to members of his family. They said the Jesuits told him he needed to broaden his life. So he took a job as a courier for a title company and became leader of a Boy Scout troop in Phoenix. Good training for being a Jesuit one has to assume, and it worked.
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