By Fr. Dwight Longenecker, The Imaginative Conservative - Reading Ignatius Press’ recently published biography of St John de Brébeuf brought to mind the heroism of the first generation of Jesuit missionaries, and one couldn’t help contrasting them with the present crop of Jesuits… the second generation moved in a different direction… Appointed by the Jesuit pope to be a media spokesman, Father (James) Martin endorses dissident gay support groups while ignoring the orthodox support ministry, Courage. In a devastating essay, Father Paul Shaughnessy SJ asks, “Are the Jesuits Catholic?”