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...Would you please come pull it off?" Boston's salty Richard Cardinal Gushing, 69, rumbled back to the auld sod for an eleven-day visit, cocked his cardinal's hat and began peppering the Irish countryside with foine, unclerical prose. "I was nearly going to be a Jesuit," he reported, "but on the night before I was to join the novitiate, I quit. The Jesuits have been thanking God ever since." And later: "It is absurd in this part of the 20th century that the Ecumenical Council has no translation system such as the United Nations...
...people. Father Smits compares Christ's giving himself to the gesture of a Dutch housewife who offers her guests tea and cookies. Just as the housewife offers not food itself but her welcome "incarnated" in the gift, Christ also offers himself, incarnated in the bread and wine. Adds Jesuit Schoonenberg: "I kneel not for a Christ who is supposed to be condensed in the host, but for the Lord who through the host offers me his reality, his body...
...Much Magic. What has driven Catholic thinkers to a new way of looking at the Real Presence is dissatisfaction with the medieval way of stating the doctrine. Dutch Jesuit Piet Schoonenberg argues that transubstantiation overemphasizes a magical change in the bread and wine while ignoring an essential element in the mystery: the faith of the Believing Church, in which the action takes place. Concentration on what happens to the bread itself, says Dutch Capuchin Luchesius Smits, leads to such distortions of piety as the little girl's fear that eating ice cream right after her first Communion would "make...
...opposition to science and free inquiry. Later, of course, it turned out to the satisfaction of ev eryone, including the Roman Catholic Church, that the earth does revolve around the sun. Galileo's works were removed from the Index in 1822, and a year ago French Jesuit François Russo suggested that the church might also formally repudiate the unjust censures directed...
Slim, white-haired and scholarly, Arrupe fills a vacancy created last October by the death of the Very Rev. John Baptist Janssens of Belgium. He takes over the leadership of the 36,000-member order, the most influential in the Roman Catholic Church, at a time when the Jesuits are considering reform (TIME, May 21). Arrupe has some definite ideas on what that reform should be. Said an American Jesuit delegate after last week's election: "He wants to update the structure of the order. He sees the need for advanced studies...