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...regular visitor to Vatican City. But he abandoned his theological career, became a journalist and for the past eleven years has been a TIME correspondent in Rome. Thus, as he has been so many times in the past, Wynn was recently at the Vatican, this time to interview Jesuit Leader Father Pedro Arrupe for this week's cover story on the Jesuits, Catholicism's most visible and versatile order of priests...
...anywhere from a few days to a year, are Episcopal ministers, Catholic priests, Jews and even atheists. Daily meditation periods include readings from Zen, Hindu and Islamic literature, and participants spend long hours in silent and solitary contemplation amidst wilderness surroundings. One notable visitor to the Arizona retreat was Jesuit Theologian Walter J. Burghardt, a member of the Pope's Theological Commission. "What do I think of it all?" he wrote about his contemplative experiences. "Words impoverish. For it was at once tempestuous and calming, a wrestling and a dancing, a stillness and a cry. Nothing...
...confirmed that its superior general, the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe, had sent a letter of apology to a ranking member of the Papal Curia, Archbishop Giovanni Benelli. Arrupe's letter expressed regret for an article in the London Observer by Father Peter Hebblethwaite, S.J., editor of the English Jesuit magazine, The Month. Hebblethwaite had attacked Benelli, who is considered one of Pope Paul VI's closest confidants and advisers, as being "concerned with prestige and pomposity at a time when many Christians are trying to make the church a simpler, more fraternal and welcoming place...
Reaction in Rome to the second Hebblethwaite attack was swift. In a front-page editorial, the Catholic daily L'Avvenire accused the English Jesuit of having a "deeply deformed view of the life and the problems of the church today, fed by ancient polemics according to which everything in Rome is always wrong." Pope Paul undoubtedly had critics like Hebblethwaite in mind when he said in a recent speech: "The Curia is unfortunately disfigured in the eyes of those who know it and perhaps love it least, as though it were an artificial complex, bureaucratic, legalistic, preoccupied only with...
Despite the renewed tempest, General Arrupe declined to reprimand Hebblethwaite or dispatch fresh apologies to Benelli. Any action, said a Jesuit spokesman in Rome, would have to be taken by Hebblethwaite's superiors in England. The reaction was not surprising; many officials in Arrupe's own curia are known to concur quietly with Hebblethwaite's complaint...