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I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is all that battlefield stuff.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general... I feel like I'm still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

I went to a Catholic school but did not really fit in.

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.

Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.

I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.

I would love to be a Franciscan brother. I'm just not sure I have the courage to do it.

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.