The following comes from a Nov. 13 story in Oregon’s Catholic Sentinel.
A California Jesuit has been appointed to lead the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus, which includes Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington.
As part of the ongoing national realignment of the Jesuit provinces in the United States, Father Scott Santarosa will become provincial of the new USA Western Province when the existing Oregon and California Provinces join. He will take office in the summer of 2014.
Father Santarosa succeeds Father Patrick Lee, who has served as the provincial since 2008.
The new provincial is a graduate of Jesuit High School in Sacramento, Calif. and Santa Clara University. After a year spent with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1989. After a course of preparatory studies in philosophy and theology he was ordained in 2000 and took final vows in 2007. After ordination he worked for five years at Verbum Dei High School in Los Angeles.
While there he taught religious studies and was campus minister. He also served as vice president for development and communication for two years and as the acting principal for another year.
Since 2006 he has ministered at Dolores Mission in inner city Los Angeles as pastor. During his first years there he was also the superior of the Jesuit community attached to the parish. He has served on a number of boards of Jesuit institutions and been a consultor to both the provincials of the California and Oregon Provinces.
Father General Adolfo Nicolás, the Jesuit Superior General, made the choice.
Father Lee says he is “very happy” with the selection, adding that Father Santarosa has qualities needed to care for the men and the ministries of the province.
“I trust his commitment to the Society and the Church,” Father Lee says.
“I feel it is an honor to walk with my Jesuit brothers and lay companions in the Northwest,” Father Santarosa says. “It will be a privilege to get an inside view of their great goodness and the fine work they have been and are doing, and to live our common Jesuit vocation together as friends in the Lord.”
To read Father Santarosa’s prayer at the pro-abortion state assembly opening session on Dec. 6, 2012, click here.
To read the original story, click here.
A wonderful choice! !
I hope he adheres to the “Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition” in entirety as required of ALL Catholics , rather than the faux “Catholic” religion of picking and choosing, and relativism.
For the words of Pope Francis regarding the CCC:
https://whatcatholicsreallybelieve.com/
Bad choice! he runs in liberal Leftist immoral political circles.
Last year, Santarosa was invited by Juan Perez, a militant DEM pro-abort Sodomite, to give the opening prayer for the Legislature.
Santarosa obliquely spoke of immigration as the big issue—nothing to do with being Catholic .
He did not take this golden opportunity to ask the Legislature—the Super-DEM controlled pro-abort Legislature— to stop the killing of unborn Hispanic babies or any other babies.
I wonder how many Jesuits are actually left in the Oregon province. They can’t be getting very many vocations. I’ve known a few orthodox Jesuits, but they’re the exception rather than the rule.
Papal Neutrality in the Culture War?
by Pat Buchanan
“Pope Francis doesn’t want cultural warriors; he doesn’t want ideologues,” said Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane, Wash….
Yet here is further confirmation His Holiness seeks to move the Catholic Church to a stance of non-belligerence, if not neutrality, in the culture war for the soul of the West.
There is a small problem with neutrality. As Trotsky observed, “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”
For the church to absent itself from the culture war is to not to end that war, but to lose it.
– See more at: https://cnsnews.com/commentary/patrick-j-buchanan/papal-neutrality-culture-war#sthash.DFaueuTj.dpuf
Real Catholic Jesuits are few and far between. I know some of them, and all you have to do is ask them!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founding Director
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.
Kenneth, you are really a hoot.
With all your “Viva Cristo Rey!” acclamations at the end of each post, you give the impression of a guy thinking he’s one of the Cristeros.
Whereas, in truth, you live a very comfy life in Orange County.
And, by the way, “America” is spelled with a “c” and not with a “k.”
The Next Attack is Underway
– Who Will Lead the Defense of the Church & Our Schools; or will ‘our leaders’ simply submit to Caesar (Soetoro / Marshal Davis / ObamAcorn… Whoever the guy really is) in return for his tax collected coins?
SEE
Senate Bill Could Cripple Catholic Schools’ Employment Practices and Pose Threat to Religious Liberty
By Kelly Conroy |
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have recently issued a letter outlining their opposition to Senate Bill 815, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), because it “does not justly advance the dignity of all workers and authentic non-discrimination.”
– See more at: https://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/2675/Senate-Bill-Could-Cripple-Catholic-Schools-Employment-Practices-and-Pose-Threat-to-Religious-Liberty.aspx#sthash.jekjAcET.MRW0WzbZ.dpuf
What did everyone expect? He is a Jesuit, sadly that order ceased being Roman Catholic decades ago, it only serves Leftist and un-Catholic ideals. Look what is happening in Rome with a Jesuit, who am I too judge? Atheists go to heaven, washing women and Muslims feet, I have no problem with the Traditional Latin Mass, we can’t be concerned with abortion and Homosexuality. The list goes on and on since the Jesuit was elected, oh how I miss our dear and Holy Father Pope Benedict the XVI. Pray for the return of the Traditional Latin Mass.
“…oh how I miss our dear and Holy Father Pope Benedict the XVI.”
Your allegiance to the Successor of Saint Peter is truly admirable.
Oops — my bad.
The Successor of Saint Peter is the very person for whom you have such disdain, with your flippant comment: “Look what is happening in Rome with a Jesuit.”
Perhaps you should form your own religion?
It seems quite easy in America, even through the internet…
Michael, there is nothing in the Roman Catholic Church that tells us to worship or agree with everything a Pope does or says. There were many many bad Popes for they are human and they error and sin just like us. I have no ill feeling for the current Pope and yes he is my Pope, but I will not accept and standby while he watersdown the Holy Roman Catholic faith. I understand the hatred and distain many mordernists had for Pope Benedict the XVI, for he new that the Traditional Latin Mass must be restored to Holy Mother Church, for he attended Vatican II, and over the years saw how it utterly destroyed the Roman Catholic Church, and took baby steps to repair the damage done to it. Yes you and other modernists and liberals will never love the TLM like many on this blog do and that is truly sad, for you are missing so much that it has to offer, namely saving your soul. We may never agree and so be it, but remember this the” Mass of All Times” will live on when we have departed this world, it is like the saying goes just like Heaven.
The reason for the combining of the two provinces (Oregon & CA) is due to the precipitous collapse in vocations over the last 3 decades. They were originally separated about 1926 due to, at that time, the corresponding increase in Jesuit vocational numbers. Fr. Santarosa has his work cut out for him.
Good choice – Fr. Santarosa will be missed at Dolores Mission. Be blessed.