Nicholas Rivera's info.

From http://z13.invisionfree.com/THE_UNHIVED_MIND/index.php?showtopic=10668

Here is a pic from the California Jesuit Province

websitehttp://www.calprov.org/news/images/quinn.jpgCaption: Captain John Quinn, chaplain for the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division, give's Communion to First Lt. Prospero Gatus at Forward Operating Base Kalsu in Iraq. (U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Michael Molinaro)http://www.calprov.org/news/index.html#quinn (article about Jesuit Quinn in Iraq)http://www.milarch.org/archbishop/index.htmlArchbishop Edwin O'Brien of the Archdiocese for the Armed ForcesO'Brien is Military Vicar of the Armed Forces today during this present-day Papal crusade in the Middle East. Francis Cardinal Spellman held this same title during his crusade in Vietnam against the anti-Jesuit Buddhists.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholi...litary_Services

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Frederick_O%27BrienThe Archdiocese for the Military Services and the Roman Catholic chaplaincy has always been controlled by the Jesuits. Its history is proof of that.

Here is some interesting info.According to http://www.milarch.org/history/index.html under the heading The Birth of Modern Nations

"As feudalism waned and nationalism developed, standing armies became a phenomenon of society. Duke Alexander Farnese, deputy of the Hapsburg Emperor for the Low Countries, is usually credited with developing a juridically established military chaplaincy.Concerned about the barbarism of his troops, and motivated by his Catholic piety, Farnese introduced various religious observances for his men and incorporated the clergy into the organizational structure of his army. How this was done canonically is unclear due to lack of historical documents. But it seems the Pope appointed an Apostolic Legate for the Hapsburg armies in the Low Countries who, in turn, had his vicar-general function as chief of chaplains.Thus, something similar to a military vicariate was formed. The chaplains came from both secular and religious clergy, having been given permission from their ecclesiastical superiors. The Jesuits, in particular, took on this apostolate, and in 1587, Farnese set up a Missio Castrensis, a company of twenty-four Jesuits— priests and brothers —who operated under detailed instructions, and were attached to individual regiments."

The American RevolutionThe Continental Congress copied the British custom of having military chaplains, as well as the precedent of earlier colonial governors who appointed chaplains to their militia. On 29 July 1775, the Congress authorized chaplains to be included in the army with the pay of a captain. On 30 April 1779, John Paul Jones asked for a Catholic priests to serve aboard the Bon Homme Richard, especially in consideration of the French sailors abroad, but nothing came of the request. While Catholics fought together with their fellow colonists for independence, no priests formed a part of the chaplaincy for a variety of reasons.

There were only twenty priests in all within the Thirteen Colonies (all former Jesuits, after the suppression of their Order in 1773) serving perhaps 20,000 Catholics out of a total population of over two million. Furthermore, there was a great deal of anti-Catholic bias in the colonies stemming from England's religious strife.... One priest, Father Louis Lotbiniere, is listed as a chaplain of the Continental Army, but he was a French Canadian appointed by [Freemason] General Benedict Arnold for a regiment of Canadian volunteers.Early United States-War of 1812The first Catholic priest to serve as a Navy officer was Father Adam Marshall, SJ. He served on the North Carolina from 22 December 1824 until his death on board the ship on 20 September 1825. He had the position of "schoolmaster" but acted as chaplain to the Catholic sailors. He is generally acknowledged as the first priest commissioned to serve in the armed forces of the United States.NNR: This Jesuit publicly supported the U.S. but his Order secretly backed their British Empire and King George III attempting to enslave the young American nation.

The Mexican WarIn 1846, [Freemason] President Polk was concerned that the struggle with Mexico was being perceived on both sides as a sort of anti-Catholic crusade. So he was anxious to commission Catholic priests as army chaplains. Bishop Hughes of New York responded to a request of President Polk and talked to the Superior of the Jesuits, with the result that two Jesuits, Father John McElroy and Father Anthony Rey, were released from their assignments in Washington to serve with General Zachary Taylor's troops.Father Rey was killed in Mexico during the war; Father McElroy served one year and returned east and, in 1863, founded [Jesuit] Boston College. It seems clear that the two priests were not appointed as regular army chaplains but served as civilian government employees. President Polk also asked for a priest to serve with the Navy, but Bishop Hughes did not have a man available to send.

No priest would be a Navy chaplain officially until 1888.As forts were being set up in the westward expansion of the nation, chaplains were selected by each individual post. Often, the chief consideration was that the man be a schoolteacher, with the result that chaplains were not necessarily ministers, and sometimes quite unfit for any spiritual role. This situation led to the decision that only those chaplains would be accepted who got the recommendation of the highest authority of their denomination.In the years just before the Civil War, records of the War Department indicate that among post chaplains in western forts, chosen by local authorities at the post, were at least three Catholic priests: Father Ignacio Ramirez at Fort Montgomery, California from 1850 to 1852; Father Michael Sheehan at Fort Belknap, Texas, from 1855 to 1859; and Father Peter DeSmet, SJ, in Utah in 1858.http://www.milarch.org/history/images/his_duffy_pic.gif

Jesuit chaplain Edward P. Duffy SJwith three officers at Bay Ridge Barracks in Brooklyn, NY during World War IIThe Archdiocese for the Military Services is Jesuit-controlled to this day. Archbishop O' Brien was not trained by Jesuits but he was ordained as a priest of the Archdiocese of New York therefore he is answerable to the NY Archbishop Edward Cardinal Egan. Two of the three auxiliary bishops Kaising and Estabrook of the Archdiocese for the Military Services are Jesuit-trained.http://www.milarch.org/bishops/index.html

-Brother Nicholas N. Rivera