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Father Bernard Rosecrans Hubbard, S. J., head of the geology department of the Jesuit University of Santa Clara, Calif., last fortnight told newsmen and geologists he had discovered that the Aniakchak and Veniaminoff, Alaskan peaks thought to be extinct, are alive. If so, they are the largest active craters in the world...
Fordham University. Jesuit colleges select and induct their presidents quietly, without public fanfare. In the refectory of Fordham University (New York), last week, an order from the Very Rev. Vlodimir Ledochowski, S.J., Superior General at Rome, was read at mealtime. Rev. William J. Duane, S.J., 63, having completed the six years in office permitted by canon law, got up from the head of the table and bowed to Rev. Aloysius G. Hogan, S.J., 37, who took his place. Next day Father Duane sailed for Rome. It is not expected that he will do any more educational work...
Last Sunday was feast day of Saints Peter & Paul. His Holiness continued what was becoming a physically painful ordeal, canonized ten more saints. Two were Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, illustrious Jesuit, and Theophilus Da Corte. The others were the first North American saints, all martyred by Indians-Isaac Jogues, John de Brébeuf, Noel Chabanel, Anthony Daniel, Gabriel Lalemant, Charles Gamier (Jesuit priests), René Goupil, John Lalande (laymen) (TIME, April...
...Jesuit Martyrs of North America meticulous Father John J. Wynne, S.J., describes with careful detail how the martyrs were tortured in the New York and Canadian woods by Indians who tore out their nails, hair and beards, chewed their fingers, and as one martyr said "even went so far-a savage act-as in cold blood [to] wound us with their nails, which are extremely sharp, in the most tender and sensitive parts of the body." Eventually all eight were despatched by the Indians, several with tomahawks. There is no question of the heroic circumstances of their deaths. But many...
Later in the day it was learned that Pope Pius XI had been almost prostrated by grief at news of the sacrilege. "The Holy Father was much shaken," said a Jesuit prelate...