Father Anthony J Fitzgerald, S.j., Jurisprudential Wizard, Vol. 34 Father Fitzgerald Reflects

Father Anthony J. Fitzgerald, S.J., Jurisprudential Wizard, Vol. 34, Father Fitzgerald Reflects By Anthony J. Fejfar, B.A., J.D., Esq., Coif © Copyright 2007 by Anthony J. Fejfar Father Tony Fitzgerald was tired. He was half way through a 3 day retreat, and it was work. Sometimes prayer came easy, but the aftermath was always tiring. His goal was to reflect upon the major commitments and beliefs in his life. Father Tony recalled first that he was an Episcopalian Catholic Priest. There were a few Roman Catholics left in the United States, but not very many. After the bishops came back from the First Vatican Council, held in Rome, around the year 1890, they met in their individual countries a voted en masse to schism and start the Episcopalian Catholic Church, rejected the idea of Papal Infallibility. The Jesuit Order, worldwide, also schismed, as did all of the other major religious orders. They still had the College of Cardinals, but instead of a Pope, there was an elected President Archbishop. Politically, Tony Fitzgerald, reflected, he was a Neo-Thomist who believed in Natural Law. His highest principles were: individual autonomy, individual rational self interest, individual self actualization, and individual self transcendence. He also believed in and used the 4 Natural Law Ethical Principles of Reciprocity, Utility, Proportionality, and Equity. Finally, a Jesuit, Tony Fitzgerald had taken 4 vows, first, simple living, second, celibacy (a vow not to marry), obedience to the transcendental precepts, Be attentive, Be Intelligent, Be Reasonable, Be Responsible, Be Loving.

Finally, his fourth vow was to

Fight for Justice and Social Justice to the Death and Beyond. Tony Fitzgerald felt comfortable with were he was spiritually.

He had spoken with the psychiatrist at

Juniper State Hospital, and his protégé Dan Corgill was to be released into group home care in Bella Vista, a suburb of Minneapolis, soon.