Jesuit Alumni in Arizona
Some 2,000 of us, the Jesuit Alumni in Arizona, are graduates of 28 Jesuit universities and 47 Jesuit high schools in the United States now living in Arizona. We meet periodically to celebrate our Jesuit backgrounds, to stimulate and encourage one another to be thinking Christians, vocal citizens of our Church, our city, our state, and our nation, to have life and have it more abundantly.
Christopher Dickey is the author of six books, most recently Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force—the NYPD. He is also senior reporter in Europe for Newsweek magazine. He just released his refutation of the commonly accepted opinion that an increase in emigrants causes more crime in America. Read his piece by clicking here.
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Let the movement begin! Our Godfather, Robert Blair Kaiser, has just delivered the keynote speech for the annual conference - The Humbert Summer School - in County Mayo, Ireland. In this speech, Kaiser has laid down the gauntlet for the establishment of an "autochthonous church". First described in his novel, Cardinal Mahoney, Kaiser's autochthonous church breaks from the power structure of the Roman model and establishes local church authority while never departing from traditional Catholic Doctrine. Issues such as clerical conduct, women's rights, and celibacy are, in this new church, addressed by the local, single tiered church in concert with the laity and the clergy.
To read the text of Kaiser's speech, click here. To see some of the advance Irish press reaction, click here.