(CNS News) Although the Catholic Church has taught since its inception that marriage is between one man and one woman for life, the new superior of the worldwide Jesuit religious order, Fr. Arturo Sosa Abascal, claims that despite Jesus Christ’s words about marriage (Matthew 19: 3-9), “no one had a recorder to take down his words,” which must be “contextualized,” and that doctrine implies a “hardness” like “stone” while “human reality is much more nuanced” and “never black and white.”
Fr. Absacal, from Venezuela, was elected superior of the Jesuits, the Society of Jesus, in October. The Catholic religious order for men dates back to the year 1540, when it was founded by St. Ignatious of Loyola. It is the largest religious order in the Catholic Church. Although the Jesuits for centuries were considered the shock troops of the Vatican and their superior dubbed the “Black Pope” because of his influence, the religious order has grown very liberal, modernist over the last 60 years.
