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The Society of Jesus is really angry. So angry they abuse children according to the Catholic News Service -Anger management vital for clergy and religious, Jesuit journal says.
We realize this is another shift from the Jesuits’ previous excuse “it was stress“. In the real world, both these theories are akin to asking “why” a hurricane struck rather than saving lives and cleaning up the mess it left first.
“Anger awareness and management are vital for priests and members of religious orders because they are called to be people of dialogue, fraternity, service, peace and justice, and to treat others with charity…”
Jesuits that lack “an adequate integration of aggression, they can become hostile, rigid and obstinate and risk exploding the often delicate and complex balance present in the communities” according to Jesuit Father Giovanni Cucci SJ, a professor of psychology and philosophy at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University, in an article in La Civilta Cattolica which was cleared for publication by the Vatican.
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