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...such quarters, the ancient university is sure to change drastically. It already has. Once a cloister for seminarians, later a hotbed of middle-class anticlericals, the University of Mexico has become since the 1910 revolution a center of mass-produced higher education. Its doors are open to anyone with certain minimum secondary-school marks and $20 a year tuition money. More & more it resembles the big U.S. state universities at which so many of its faculty leaders have been trained. Overwhelmingly conservative nowadays, the students, men & women alike, seem mainly concerned with the practical business of preparing for their vocations...
...national strategy mean? . . . The selection of broad, national purposes . . . Every significant act of Government should be so timed . . . so related to other governmental actions that it will produce the maximum effect . . . We shall no longer have a Department of State that deals with foreign policy in an aloof cloister, a defense establishment that makes military appraisals in a vacuum . . . We must bring the dozens of agencies and bureaus into concerted action under an overall scheme of strategy...
Furthermore, the fellow had angered the local Carmelites by taking over from them the hearing of confession in the town, and the Capuchins by discrediting their cloister's miracle-working image. There was, however, some consolation, for the priestly popinjay had made an enemy of Cardinal Richelieu by walking ahead of him during a religious procession. And just as rashly, he had a child by the daughter of his best friend, the public prosecutor of Loudun...
...Apostles. George Lamb, a young British Catholic, discusses St. Simeon Stylites, the 5th century hermit who spent 37 years sitting on a pillar. Psychiatrist Karl Stern writes about St. Théreèse of Lisieux, a bourgeois French girl who died in 1897, at 24, in a Carmelite cloister. Also included: one Pope, Pius V; two Jesuits, Ignatius Loyola and his missionary follower Francis Xavier; one parish priest, St. Jean Vianney, the 19th century cure...
This second choice is not the inequitable waste of time opponents of released time say it is. The kids who stay in school are not forced to sit and twiddle their thumbs, building up resentment against their more fortunate buddies who have skipped off to the cloister. Rather, they are free to take part in some of the beneficial and democratizing activities a public school offers: athletics, extra-curricular programs, and the like...