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...graduate of Gregorian University in Rome with masters degrees in philosophy and theology, Healy will help students who are considering taking time off from Harvard to work or study abroad in finding outside sponsorship for their activities...
...fighters doing exercises-is as carefully controlled and lovely as a fugue. It is characteristic of Eastman that the sounds of the gym-a jump rope skipping against the floor, a bag being punched hard in irregular rhythm, the bursts of quick breath from the athletes- mingle with a Gregorian chant issuing, presumably, from upstairs. The place is called, after all. the New Avenue Walk-up Gym and Cultural Center. It could be a sort of royal court for the kind of kingdom Eastman creates, whimsical but not cute, tinctured with a sort of likely absurdity...
...because of slippage between the Hebrew lunar calendar and the Gregorian solar calendar...
...Within the Pope's own bailiwick, a veteran moral philosopher disobeyed Arrupe. A faculty member of the Jesuits' prestigious Gregorian Pontifical University since 1961, Father José Maria Diez-Alegria set off the squabble last December by publishing his autobiography, I Believe in Hope, without Jesuit clearance. The book is sympathetically leftist, and somewhat candid about priests' sexual frustrations, but what piqued Arrupe was Diez-Alegria's refusal to submit to Jesuit censorship before publication. Arrupe has since suspended the Spaniard from the society for two years. One important reason for his action: the case revived talk among a group...
...Marquette paddled down the Mississippi in the first European expedition to explore that river. Brother Jiri Kamel, a Moravian botanist at the Jesuits' College of Manila in the 17th century, gave Europe the camellia. A German mathematician and astronomer of the Society of Jesus, Christoph Klau, contributed to the Gregorian calendar and gave his Latinized name, Clavius, to a lunar crater that he discovered...