When Fr Arturo Marcelino Sosa Abascal SJ, the Superior General of the Jesuits, speaks, people listen. He heads the Church’s largest and in some ways most influential order, and is said to be close to the Holy Father. So in the current debates about marriage and divorce, he has an important voice.
However, the lengthy interview which Fr Sosa has just given is rather opaque. It is clear that the interviewer, Italian journalist Giuseppe Rusconi, is flummoxed by what the Jesuit General is saying. When we dig down into Fr Sosa’s words, something worrying emerges.
