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...this score, he was the despair of the orthodox, who always wanted to know whether he thought that the tomb was really empty on that first Easter morning. When Pope Pius XII defined the doctrine of the Virgin Mary's bodily assumption into Heaven, one eminent Jesuit friend of Tillich's was looking forward to having a lively argument with him on the subject. "But Paul said he saw no difficulty with the doctrine whatsoever," he reported furiously. "When every doctrine is a symbol, it all evaporates into thin...
Personally, De Staël absorbed many shocks. His father, a Czarist cavalry general, and his mother fled the Russian Revolution only to leave him an orphan in Poland when he was eight Family friends sent him through Jesuit schools m Belgium, where he began to study art. After wartime service with the Foreign Legion in Tunisia, the demobilized artist returned to Paris with a mistress, Jeannine Guilloux. Often he painted her skeletal beauty. "I wondered what it was I had painted," he mused, a living dead creature or a dead living creature...
...most militant answer came from the new Jesuit General, Father Pedro Arrupe. What "the Black Pope" had to say shocked a number of progressive bishops and theologians. Arrupe charged that there is an atheistic conspiracy at large in the world that "holds almost complete sway in international organizations, in financial circles, in the fields of mass communications: press, cinema, radio and television." Even worse, he warned, this atheistic mentality "enters the very territory of the City of God, insidiously influencing the minds of believers (including even religious and priests) with its hidden poison, and producing its natural fruits...
...coffee bars at St. Peter's. That such an approach should be taken by Arrupe, a learned Basque with a reputation for liberality, produced more puzzlement than anything else. At a press panel, American Theologian John J. King bluntly called Arrupe's summons to crusade "unfortunate." Other Jesuits noted that Arrupe did not reflect a consensus of the society. "I think his speech was naive," said one Jesuit professor in Rome. "It was a speech by a man who doesn't understand the situation. His language was that of the old Roman papal bulls, which talked about...
Father Nedel's African colony at the University in São Leopoldo suddenly went berserk, forced one of his assistants to take refuge in a truck, then turned on another man, two dogs and several children. Next day the Jesuit beekeeper ordered his eight African queens destroyed...