New Congress 9 percent Jesuit-educated

Go Zags!

In a Senate of 100 members, how is it "just over 13 percent" Jewish? Are there 13 Jewish senators and John Kerry's jewish ancestry is the just over part ? And I thought Stephen Lynch (D-MA) was a BC law grad. inquiring minds want to know.

With regards to the BC grads...Right School....Wrong Party!

jonnama --

the pew data includes just 99 members of the senate, because of the vacancy from illinois created by barack obama's resignation, so 13 jewish senators out of 99 gets you 13.1 percent.

and you are correct about steve lynch -- i have no idea why he's not on the AJCU list.

michael

Only "Good Catholics" are Democrats... All the Republicans of note are Southern Baptists. Thank God for the Jesuits they teach about concern for the less fortunate and not about GREED....

He's not on the list because he didn't get a jesuit education, he got a legal education.

Don't forget Pete Stark (D-CA), the nation's first openly atheist congressman, recipient of the American Humanist Association's 2008 "Humanist of the Year" award.

Catholic? They should start voting like it! These days "Jesuit-educated" is a synonym for "dissenting Catholic" or "apostate", e.g. J.F. Kerry et al...

Hoyas rule. No surprise.

"Good Catholics" - what a joke. The pro-death phony Catholics politicians are a disgrace to themselves and a scandalous embarrassment to the Church. The Jesuits used to be the cream of the crop, (stars remain, like Fr. Fessio, Fr. Spitzer and the late Fr. Hardin), but they are a very different order than they were 50 years ago and prior to that.

I thought Lynch was not on the list b/c he did not want to remind everyone that those were the student loans he defaulted on...

I'd be curious how many Members of Congress were educated at the 46 Jesuit high schools in the US ?

Holy Cross always goes for quality rather than quantity. Go Crusaders!

When you say "ProDeath", EOB1971, are you referring to sending thousands to a sensless War? Or being Pro Death Penalty? Or maybe by "ProDeath" you mean anti-health insurance for children and elderly? Or perhaps you mean pro Wall St? I guess you mean Republican.

Why are there no Atheists? Darwinians-Galapagoans-Tree Huggers-Humanists-Nature lovers-Sane People?
According to the Church of England, 7 out of 10 in UK have their heads buried in the sand, Christians. Ignorance is BLISS.
There is only ONE GOD, Nature is GOD.
Every creature on Earth comes complete with all aspects to deal with "Life on Earth".
Humans have a Subconscious mind. Our own God. "Sleep on it" is well established.When we Pray (even us Atheists!) we send our problems to our sssSubconscious Mind. If it can suggest a 'resolution' we wake in the morning enlightened.(God heard my Prayer!)
If it cannot find a solution, it tells our body to inject certain Hormones to relieve the stress, as with bereavement.
Peter Wignall

Feedback to ABC online. USA.

According to the Church of England, 7 out of 10 in UK have their heads buried in the sand. Ignorance is BLISS.
There is only ONE GOD, Nature is GOD.
Every creature on Earth comes complete with all aspects to deal with "Life on Earth".
Humans have a Subconscious mind. Our own God. "Sleep on it" is well established.
When we Pray (even us Atheists!) we send our problems to our Subconscious Mind. If it can suggest a 'resolution' we wake in the morning enlightened.(God heard my Prayer!)
If it cannot find a solution, it tells our body to inject certain Hormones to relieve the stress, as with bereavement.
Peter Wignall

When we Pray (even us Atheists!) we send our problems to our Subconscious Mind. If it can suggest a 'resolution' we wake in the morning enlightened.(God heard my Prayer!)
If it cannot find a solution, it tells our body to inject certain Hormones to relieve the stress, as with bereavement.
Peter Wignall

EOB, Pro-death? You can't be serious. Getting rid of a fertilized egg a woman doesn't want to carry is equal to murder/death. You remind me why I left the Catholic Church. I was also Jesuit trained right across the street from what you probably call "that liberal rag" (The Boston Globe) which of course makes me one of Satan's minions. Good to see that Jesuit training can lead to progressive thinking.

LargeJames2 - practicing junk science? A fertilized egg is life. When it is no longer alive it is dead. How did it die during an abortion procedure? It was killed. Getting rid of a fertilized egg is killing, but it is not murder. Society makes decisions that result in killing people all the time. For example, when the state makes a concious decision to tax cigarettes and not ban them, they are making a decision to allow people to be killed in return for tax money. We also execute scumball criminals and get involved in wars. We make public safety decisions that are based on risk-reward, ie how much does it cost and how many lives are saved - the implication being that if it ccosts too much we are willing to let people get killed.

Admith the scientific truth - abortion is killing, otherwise I don't think it would be very useful.

Having gone to Yale and having taught at BC for 24 years, I'm pleased that the electorate recognizes the quality in these men. Still, it is interesting that on average the women I taught were more capable students than the men--and there are no women on the list. Catholic culture and Jesuit Catholic education seem to be somewhat behind the curve in encouraging women to compete with men in every type of career.

HOYA SAXA

Interesting, yet unexpected, finding that "Members of Congress are much more likely than the public overall to say they are affiliated with a particular religion."

Why?? Because we still cater way too much to the religious right here. When people care more for a politician's religion than his stance on issues or past voting record, we have a serious problem.

"Peter" above notes the church of England pejoratively stating that 7 out of 10 UK politicians do not wish to discuss their religious beliefs. Funny, that's what those English 'radicals' called Our Founding Fathers wrote into the U.S. Constitution "that NO religious test is required of a person seeking office". It is too bad Obama ignored this, and is catering to this religious crap in his upcoming inauguration.

Beatitudes no, he is talking about the 50Million murdered children in their mothers' wombs. Its not even close to compare with your "red herrings" arguments that liberals always raise, and your phony logic.

LargeJames2 - your post is very ignorant and even contradicts the Jesuit Statement on abortion set in 2003. You ought to read it before you self-declare omnipotence. Otherwise, you sound like the "modern Jesuit" mindset.

I thank God that I was taught at Loyola High in Los Angeles. I am a conservative but our former governor and current Attorney General, Jerry Brown, is liberal. I didn't even need to know that JB was Jesuit trained... one just "sees" it! I'm forever thankful for the Jesuits (with their liberal bias) because they teach one to THINK independently. Because of them, high school was hard... college was easy! (3 college degrees...not even a 3.0 at Loyola) Most importantly... I have the quality of "discernment"... it has served me well.
Leland, class of '70

GOD BLESS THE JESUIT'S--They are bringing "FIRE and the WHEEL" to CAVEMEN who want to subjugate women and defend HERETICS of the CHURCH who have PUT THE CHURCH OVER THEIR SHEEP (CARDINAL LAW)... KJR--YOU ARE GOING TO HELL WITH DICK CHENEY!!!!!!

Just because they had a Jesuit education doesn't mean they learned a damn thing.
A law degree from a Jesuit institution isn't the same thing as a bachelor's degree. Hell, I'd rather want to know if they went to a Catholic high school than a Catholic college.

DemCatholic - you are right on queue with the liberal hate speech. Your name serves you well, and thank you for judging me. Can't you get over that... liberal hate speech is so '08... Oh I get it, the lib Jesuits now have the teaching authority of the Church over the Magisterium.... your post is laughable if not so ignorant and sad.

DemCath - if you like the Jesuits, follow Fr. Fessio, Fr. Spitzer, Fr. Pacwa and the late Fr. Hardin. They are what is left of what once was the best order in the World before this liberal secularism infected them . May it be purged so they get back to their moral authority stature of 50 years ago.

If you think I am going to hell, are you not praying for my salvation, rather than being gleeful in your wish for me? Are you not Catholic ... because that is what the Church would teach you.

Is it any surprise that after the Jesuits removed the crucifixes from the classrooms at BC and other Jesuit colleges so as not to "offend" others, circa 1970s, that the vast majority of those mentioned as Catholic legislators are in open defiance of Vatican teachings on the sanctity of life and traditional marriage? The fact that at once John Kerry (Kohn) can support the killing of a newborn in the birthing process (partial birth abortion) yet receive communion at Arch Street or the Paulist Center is sickening. Time for Pope Benedict and Cardinal Sean to strictly enforce the no communion rule for these fakes!

Amen O-FISH-L1

Too bad the Supreme Court has some (unfortunate) Jesuit/Holy Cross connections: Clarence Thomas, Roberts' wife, and Scalia's son are all grads. : (