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Many Jesuits see an instauration of Ignatian spirit. Father Lyndon Farwell, a recently ordained California Jesuit, would in fact like to see the upcoming general congregation focus on that ideal by conducting its meeting as a spiritual retreat, with no agenda. It would be "a great witness to the faith of the Jesuits?coming together to see what God wants them to do next. I would like to see them define the spirit and priorities of the society, but it should be a religious, not a legislative, thing...
...nation's Jesuit-run high schools, colleges and universities (69, with an enrollment of 122,418) gathered in some 150 U.S. cities and towns for special Masses and breakfasts in honor of St. Ignatius of Loyola. For U.S. Roman Catholics it was the high point of the Ignatian Year - the 400th anniversary of Loyola's death. Since last July 31, in churches, chapels and mission stations all over the world, Roman Catholics have been honoring the memory of one of the great creative innovators and proselytizers in Christian history...
...since 1949, when their team won the National Invitation Tournament, have the Dons been able to hold up their heads in the national standing. After its N.I.T. success, the little (2,515 students) Jesuit university on Ignatian Heights lost Coach Pete Newell to the high-priced payroll of Michigan State, its champions were graduated and there was neither the money nor the organization to recruit replacements...
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