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Pontiffs have intervened in the past by dictating the elections of Superiors General. In 1773 Pope Clement XIV even dissolved the society, a 41-year-long humiliation that some Jesuit intellectuals close to the Vatican are comparing with John Paul's treatment...
...they did. Congressman Clement Zablocki of Wisconsin and William Broomfield of Michigan asked for autographs...
...superpower struggle. Weapons shipments tend to promote regional arms races (India and Pakistan, for example), with the ante raised every time a more advanced item of technology, such as the F-16 jet or the MiG-25, is introduced into a region. Says House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Clement Zablocki: "Reagan's new policy could result in destabilizing arms races in sensitive areas of the world." If only in financial terms, the Third World can ill afford it: the aggregate debt of developing nations has doubled in the past four years to $280 billion...
...spend at least 15 years in the society before taking final vows. Unlike other Catholic orders, which vow chastity, poverty and obedience, top Jesuits are also bound to the Pope by a special pledge of fealty. Yet throughout history, Popes have accused them of arrogance and disobedience. In 1773 Clement XIV even suppressed the order because European governments and jealous clerics complained that Jesuits had too much power. The order was not revived until...
...thing is that it was not so long ago that the art of the insult was in its heyday. Winston Churchill was a virtuoso at it, calling Clement Attlee "a sheep in sheep's clothing" when he was not calling him "a modest little man with much to be modest about." Then there was this famous exchange...