Vatican Aims to ‘Weed Out Dissenting Voices’ from Journal at Marquette Univ.

The National Catholic Reporter reports that sources have said that the Vatican began pressuring policy changes at the Jesuit journal Theological Studies with aims to “weed out dissenting voices” and “stick more closely to official church teachings” not long after a controversial 2004 essay arguing for “a change in church teachings on divorce and remarriage.”  The journal Theological Studies is hosted by Jesuit Marquette University and its authors are very frequently Catholic university professors.

NCR indicated that Fr. David Schultenover, SJ, editor of Theological Studies and theology professor at Marquette, wrote in his editor’s column last year that when “theses that contravene official church” are in the journal “our policy will be to alert readers and clearly state the current authoritative church teaching”.

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