Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postwar government, he, though himself a devout Catholic communicant, curtly withdrew the wartime subsidies that Vichy had set aside for Church-run schools. But still, one in five French children attended the church schools, though the buildings were often in miserable shape, and learning, except for the top Jesuit schools, suffered from ill-paid and inferior teaching. The question of state aid to Catholic schools has passionately dogged every French government since, including De Gaulle's Fifth Republic. Last week, when the government finally sent to the National Assembly a draft bill offering conditional aid to parochial schools...
Scientist Julian Huxley predicted a new, evolutionary kind of religion last week (TIME, Dec. 7), one man must have been in his mind-a Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Just published in the U.S. is the late Father Teilhard's major work: The Phenomenon of Man (Harper; $5), and Huxley himself supplied the introduction. "A very remarkable work by a very remarkable human being," he wrote. "His influence on the world's thinking is bound to be important . . . He has forced theologians to view their ideas in the new perspective of evolution, and scientists...
...Jesuit Teilhard wrote The Phenomenon of Man as a scientist; he was a top-ranking paleontologist and one of the discoverers of Peking Man. But as a Roman Catholic priest, he submitted to the prohibition of his church against publishing his writings or teaching his ideas. Until his death at 73, in 1955, The Phenomenon of Man had to be circulated privately in mimeographed form. A friend to whom he left the manuscript arranged for its publication...
Moral Intelligence. For Catholics, switching to public schools is no answer, writes Jesuit McCluskey. U.S. public schools-partly, he says, because Catholics tried so hard to "de-Protestantize" them-have become secular institutions in which even the Bible is a prohibited document. To protect the rights of dissenters, the public schools no longer recognize extramundane authority; their ethos is a this-world "democratic humanism" that looks solely to society for its standards. "The public school," says McCluskey, "is less competent today to assume responsibility for moral and spiritual training than ever before...
...REVEREND AUGUSTIN BEA, 78, a German-born Jesuit scholar and one of the few men to whom a Pope has knelt; for more than 20 years he was the confessor of the late Pope Pius XII. Pope Pius wanted to make him a cardinal in 1946, but Jesuit General Janssens urged the Pope not to, because some Vatican veterans felt that Jesuits had been overly favored (Pius XI had created two Jesuit cardinals, had turned over to the Jesuits both the Vatican radio and the observatory at Castel Gandolfo; Pius XII had two Jesuit private secretaries...