Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Jesuits have inherited such fields as the Philippines and Ceylon from European provinces. Other U.S. Jesuit activities, e.g., the newly opened high school in Nepal, are in areas which have not been visited by any other Roman Catholic missionaries in modern times...
Looking back at 25 years of expanding missionary work by U.S. Jesuits, the Roman Catholic magazine, Jesuit Missions, gave its readers some striking statistics...
...social apostolate" of the Church. In Jamaica, for example, Father John P. Sullivan and Father Francis G. Kempel organized fishermen's and small farmers' cooperatives to pull their parishioners out of economic trouble. Father Walter Hogan's Institute of Social Order in Manila -one of five Jesuit labor-relations schools in India and the Philippines-has bucked Filipino industrialists on behalf of striking dock and airline workers (TIME...
...Jesuit Missions has grown pretty remarkably itself, from a circulation of 3,000 in 1927 to 136,000 today. Under Father Calvert Alexander, its editor since 1938, the magazine aims at an audience of Catholic laymen, sees to it that its articles (mostly on missions and missionaries) are short, informative and liberally illustrated...
Awakening may seem a shocker, especially to Catholics, but it is no dirty-minded, adolescent scrawl. Rossi, a precocious youngster who was himself kicked out of a Jesuit school at 14, sometimes makes hero Denis sound and feel older than his years. Occasionally both author and hero show their immaturity in awkward, self-conscious yammerings about life. But as a picture of an adolescent agonizingly in love, or even as a simple love story, Awakening is done with enough skill and taste to establish Author Rossi as the Flaubert of teenagers...