Reputations of the Various Catholic Orders

[DC Al Fine]

I've noticed that when I speak with my Catholic friends that, when a Catholic figure says something that implies a low view of scripture, it gets brushed aside with "yeah, but he's a Jesuit". Apparently the Jesuits have something of a reputation in that regard?

Do any of the other Catholic orders have a reputation for favouring a certain theology or practice? Are some orders much more liberal/conservative, high/low church than others?

[RI]

Jesuits are very liturgically/theologically liberal, externally-oriented (lots of emphasis on evangelization, service, outreach, building schools/hospitals, etc.), and social justice focused.

Dominicans are more conservative and intellectually/inwardly-focused. Lots of Dominicans are professors or teachers. They tend not to like Franciscans very much.

There are many different branches of Franciscans who run the gamut as far as emphases and views. They tend to have more cloistered members than the first two. They're not particularly intellectual (more salt-of-the-earth, live-among-the-poor types), focusing on service and running parish communities.

Benedictines are your stereotypical order for cloistered monastics. Very prayer-focused and more into mysticism than the above. Carmelites are similar, if slightly more active outside monasteries.

[Green Line]

Vincentians are similar to Jesuits.

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

Jesuits are the only order with that strong a reputation

[bore]

http://catholic-resources.org/JesuitJokes.htm

[Ebsy]

The Jesuits and Franciscans are typically seen as being rivals.