Blaming the Jesuits for Brennan is like blaming the West Point Honor Code for Petraeus.
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As to the latter, the honest ones don’t need it, and the dishonest ones merely learn how to be better, more slippery, more skilled liars and to get away with it.

i’m a methodist, a methodist, ’tis my belief

a methodist ’til i die.

when old grim death comes a knockin’at the door,

i’m a methodist ’til i die…

http://artists.letssingit.com/red-foley-lyrics-methodist-pie-hzvdlbh

and

https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=QZ_Yr9a7sRo

:)

yes, the best part of any methodist service were the hymns: all printed, all verses, and neatly numbered in the hymnal.

i must say i actually enjoyed the sermons in my childhood because they were most often thoughtful, comprehensible lessons by well-educated men (women preachers came later).

today i find, by contrast, preachers who seem to have been called to witness not for their thoughtfulness but for their capacity to scream “jesus christ” and “christ’s love” at least two dozen times in an hour. but maybe that’s because these days i only end up in church for funerals, since all our generation’s children are married and approaching middle-age.

electing josej ratzinger as pope was a bit like electing dick cheney to succeed g.w. bush as president. the german ratzinger was an implacable intellectual foe of liberation theology.

as for the republican party’s war on central america in “it’s morning in america” days:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Americas_Watch

the perversely named “school of the americas” was an american institution set up in the military base in colombus, ga. to train central and south american military officers in “counter-……”.

sound familiar?

protests and vigils, often led by priests or nuns, were routinely held at the gates of the base with, eventually, some effect. but, of course, not without lots of pro-forma arrests and jailings of these american citizens for expressing their heartfelt opinions. oh to be a corporation!

vigil:

[… Presente! litany

The Presente! litany is a memorial litany in which the names of people killed in political repression (usually in Central and South America) are recited. This litany is used at the annual memorial service held at the gates of the School of the Americas in Columbus, Georgia, for those killed by graduates of the school.[9] In Spanish, “Presente” means “here” or “present”, when responding to a roll call.

The tradition of reading names of those killed by politically repressive regimes has a long tradition in Latin America. At the funeral of Pablo Neruda on September 25, 1973 in Chile, Hernán Loyala reports that mourners responded with “Presente” (meaning “he/she (the victim) is here”) to the shouting out of Neruda’s name, as well as that of Salvador Allende, the recently deposed (and killed) president:

Two days later Neruda’s body was taken out of the ransacked house. Loyola recollected: “A considerable group of workers and students had gathered outside in the street, and I heard the first shouts: ‘Comrade Pablo Neruda!’ someone screamed and all the others answered: ‘Present!’ The cortege left in a defiant column (any massive demonstration was, of course, forbidden) … and the column grew along the way. Arriving at the general Cemetery along the Avenida de la Paz, the funeral became an impressive popular protest, the first since September 11 … I confess I was frozen with fear, because the people began singing the Internationale in a crescendo. Suddenly, I found that I had my fist in the air and was singing. Soldiers, armed to the teeth, surrounded the square opposite the cemetery and I sincerely believed that, in a matter of seconds, they would let off a round of machine-gun fire. When someone in a loud voice began to shout: ‘Comrade Pablo Neruda!’ we all answered ‘Present![10]

This was the first public act of protest against the 14-day-old government of Augusto Pinochet …]

from wikipedia, cited above.

the installation of pinochet was just one of our central intelligence agency’s spectacularly unintelligent interventions. but then, that was in the days before niger yellow cake, etc.

need i add, liberation theology was (and remains) precisely the fuse to light the equivalent of the french revolution in latin america, central america, and the carribean – that is, the revolution of the 1790’s that followed on the heels of the american revolution.