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Protestants and Roman Catholics, who have been eyeing each other nervously for several months, have begun to see things under their respective beds. The Protestants' bogey is a Catholic-controlled U.S.; the Catholics' is the white hood of the Ku Klux Klan. Last week even the sensible Jesuit weekly America began to look over its shoulder. Said America...
This version of the affair was not corroborated by three Jesuit priests who last week reached Rome from Austria. Hitler, they said, had actually been wounded on the left side of his scalp, and had since been secluded in a small monastery near Salzburg. He was dreamy and apathetic, the priests said, and the other Nazi leaders had all they could do getting him to write and deliver a speech...
...status was equivalent to a patent of nobility: Stalin's father was a semiliterate shoemaker who had been a peasant. Georgia is one of Asia's few Christian countries ("I too am an Asiatic," Stalin greeted the Japanese Foreign Minister in 1941). So Stalin went to a Jesuit seminary to become a priest. But he soon left. At an age (15) when Winston Churchill was at Harrow and Franklin Roosevelt at Groton, young Joseph Djugashvili was organizing revolutionary cells...
...hundredth anniversary of the birth of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Theodore Spencer, associate professor of English, read eight of the most well-known poems by the English author in Sever 11, Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. All of the poems written by this well-liked British Jesuit were published after his death, late in the nineteenth century...
...collection was the work of the late Jesuit Father Erich Wasmann, known as the "Fabre* of the ants." His studies of ant psychology (hermaphroditism, agricultural cooperation, etc.) are the basis of modern theories about ant society. Beginning as a specialist in the red ant, Father Wasmann eventually gathered specimens of most of the 3,500 known species of ants. When he died in 1931, he left the collection to another Jesuit entomologist, Father Schmitz, who added to it his own great collection of phorid flies (a species of hunchbacked insect...