Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would say 'One week,' or he might say seven days, but not 'A week.' By God. you are not the first of your breed to sneak in here, and you can't deceive me; I knew you at a glance. You're a Jesuit. Get out, you scoundrel, before I do you an injury. Report to those who sent you that I can detect a Jesuit at sight, however disguised." Once, suspecting a wife of slowly poisoning her husband but having no proof, Sutherland told her that her husband's food...
...America, Jesuit weekly, the same theme was played last week by John La Farge, Jesuit member of the famed artistic-literary family. Father La Farge also quoted Pius XI: "The faithful should not be present at the sacred ceremonies like mere outsiders or speechless bystanders; but should be deeply affected by the beauty of the liturgy." Singing should be an act of faith. It is. said Father La Farge. "one of the noblest of all 'devotions...
...Cabinet and the Deputies who voted the church laws or embraced the entire Government from President Zamora down to the humblest customs inspector, was not stated. Hardest hit was Alcala Zamora. A devout Catholic, he dearly loves the solace of the Mass. When Madrid hotheads set fire to Jesuit churches two years ago, plump Senora Alcala Zamora distinguished herself by driving in an open carriage to each of the burned buildings, sitting before the door loudly saying her beads...
...minutes after 9 p. m. E. S. T. last Friday, Jesuit Fathers in their universities at Georgetown and Fordham watched seismographic needles squiggle excitedly across white paper drums. In snowy Cambridge, Harvard seismologists estimated the disturbance to be 2,600 mi. away. "You might be interested in knowing," a woman telephoned the New York Times, "that I have just tried to communicate with Los Angeles by telephone. The operator said: 'Sorry, I can't connect you. We're having an earthquake...
...Very Rev. William Coleman Nevils, Jesuit president of Georgetown University, found nothing harmful in the drawing, and a Catholic editor of the Junior Red Cross News pointed out that a Spanish parish priest might very well add "such homely touches" as giving a barley wafer (not a consecrated wheat wafer) to an animal. St. Anthony the Abbot is the patron of domestic animals as well as of hospitallers, basket-makers, butchers, gravediggers. On his feast, Jan. 17, the Italian and Spanish faithful may bring their animals to be blessed with a special prayer and be sprinkled with holy water...