Word: hesburgh
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...Century asked 35 experts in the religious and secular press and found the "clear winner" to be Evangelist Billy Graham. Other members of the top ten in order of votes received: Church Historian-Journalist Martin E. Marty, President Jimmy Carter, Ecumenical Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, Notre Dame's President Theodore Hesburgh, Oral Roberts, Campus Crusade's Bill Bright, Jesse Jackson, Anita Bryant and William P. Thompson, the chief executive of the United Presbyterian Church. Lest the survey be taken too seriously, George Burns, star of Oh, God!, got two votes...
...only Catholics can influence such things, I guess this letter should be forgotten. Otherwise, I would like to add my endorsement to the letter from Maureen J. Cerny [May 23] proposing Father Hesburgh for Pope...
Earlier, the President chose the University of Notre Dame to deliver a ringing, detailed statement of his emerging foreign policy. Awarded an honorary J.D. (for Jurum Doctor, or Doctor of Laws) Carter turned to Notre Dame's president, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh. and praised him for speaking "more consistently and effectively in support of the rights of human beings than any American I know...
...Theodore M. Hesburgh, S.T.D., president of Notre Dame...
...ropes now, because if there is anything Ignatius hates more than an Ivy League professor it is a Jesuit professor. Jesuits--an order of priests that spends much of its time being intellectual and professorial, or sometimes political, like Fathers Berrigan and Drinan, or sometimes bureaucratic, like Father Hesburgh of Notre Dame--are, in fact, the bane of Ignatius's existence. (They are the bane of most Catholics' existence, because they usually adopt a lofty air that implies they are somehow privy to the wisdom of Creation and a bunch of other theological secrets the rest of us are, quite...