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Breitbart's John Nolte: The Epitome of Right Wing Class

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Decatur Deb7/07/2014 6:20:24 pm PDT

re: #307 jaunte

Fr. Hardon was also convinced Donald McGuire was innocent of abusing boys.
nytimes.com

Found it. Hardon (now dead) was too fanatical for the Jesuits. From his otherwise fawning Wiki:

“Controversy
While teaching at St. John’s, Hardon reacted to a woman’s question about his thoughts on the Enneagram of Personality. He responded with an article listing his objections to the concept, viewing it as a New Age process dangerous to the Catholic faith. Soon after he was summoned to appear before his Jesuit superior to speak on the matter, at the conclusion of the meeting he was informed he would be forbidden to teach at any Jesuit run institution.[6] At the time of his death Hardon had not been allowed to teach at a Jesuit school for sixteen years. He viewed this as persecution for teaching the faith and saw it as “white martyrdom” and when recalling it would advise his listeners that they should be willing to suffer for the true doctrines of Catholicism.[6] Hardon was also rebuffed by the chancery of the Archdiocese of Detroit who refused to use any of his books in their catechetical materials and he was never invited to their conferences and seminars - though he was in high demand across the rest of the nation.[6] The conservative Catholic newspaper The Wanderer reported that Fr. Patrick Halfpenny, vice-rector of Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit had a standing order at The Michigan Catholic (the diocesan newspaper of the Archdiocese of Detroit) that Hardon’s picture was not to be printed and also that if his name was to be mentioned at all it would be in the smallest font possible, due to Halfpenny’s belief that “He’s divisive.”[6] The Wanderer also pointed out that at the Mass celebrating the 50th anniversary of his ordination at Assumption Grotto in Detroit, though attended by many friends, not a single Jesuit other than Hardon was there.[6]”