Game of Jesuit Thrones

What They Knew
November 21, 2014

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Winter is Coming in Jesuit Rome…

With the Pope settling in, we eagerly await his next round of appointments in the Vatican and further commissions to study the rape of children. Oddly enough, the two men at the nexus of the Vatican’s plan to stop these crimes have a complicated history with the issue, one from Boston and the other, a Jesuit from Chicago. Maybe we need to tell their story somewhere else?

Robert Geisinger SJ accepts the Pope’s appointment to head the CDF

Neither city seems to be the place where one would look for a solution to the problem. We wonder if Pope Francis knew about Bob Geisinger SJ and the constant problem that is Donald McGuire?… They all know one another. Or that he was a judge and canonist at the Archdiocese of Chicago?

Pope Francis knows he doesn’t want the past to catch up with him…

But it seems that Pope Francis has been entertaining a few Jesuits you may recognize from Chicago and Boston. Are more Chicago Jesuits heading to Rome? We wonder what they know? Also with Adolfo Nicolas SJ leaving and the opening of the Generalship of the Society of Jesus, we expect there will be much blood on the street of the Borgo Santo Spirito 4…