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...Wills does not believe that the pre-conciliar church had the vitality to survive as it was much longer. His description of certain Catholic intellectuals of the '50s-with their enthusiasm for Merton and monasticism, Gregorian chant and the social encyclicals of the Popes-is witty but a bit condescending. As for the '60s, Teilhard de Chardin's cloudy, evolutionary mysticism gets no more praise than Pope John. Wills argues that both men did not fully see the consequences when they attempted to generalize or make programs from their private convictions...
Magician Playmate. Mixed with the desire for mystery, though, is undoubtedly a desire for mere novelty. Jesuit Theologian John Navone of Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, who held a "Devil Day" at the Gregorian recently to discuss the theology of the Devil, so far is not seriously alarmed by the recrudescence of Satanism. In modern Devil cults, he argues, the Devil "is more often a type of magician playmate, the product of a Playboy culture rather than the malign personal being found in Scripture. These cults tend to use the Devil for a type of arcane amusement, whereas the unamusing...
...books could be read where they might most be enjoyed, this one would be saved for a bleak day at Mont-St.-Michel, with the high tide rolling gray against the rocks and Gregorian chant echoing in the mind. ·Mayo Mohs
...occult arts traditionally associated with the devil -witchcraft, Black Masses, even blood-drinking orgies. The organization has dispatched an anti-occult mobile unit to tour 45 cities in an effort to turn people away from diabolism. And in Rome late last month, theologians and students at the Pontifical Gregorian University held a "Devil Day" seminar to examine the Roman Catholic Church's current teaching on Satan and other diabolical spirits. The consensus: Rosemary's Baby is very much alive...
These are the words of James Schall, 43, a crew-cut Jesuit priest and teacher who takes a dim view of ecology, American style. The environmental movement that has captured the nation's imagination, says Schall, who divides the year between Rome's prestigious Pontifical Gregorian University and the University of San Francisco, is really little more than heresy...