Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unlikely to change the feeling of clerics who regard celibacy as a burden that is heavy without being sweet. Within the past three years, no fewer than 4,000 priests have asked Rome to release them from their vows in order to marry. A poll conducted last year by Jesuit Sociologist Joseph Fichter indicated that 62% of U.S. priests favored a relaxation in the ban against marriage...
Since ecumenism has become an accepted part of church life, all too many exponents of church unity have discovered to their horror that they spend most of their time attending interfaith meetings. According to Jesuit Theologian Daniel O'Hanlon of California's Alma College, so many interfaith organizations and dialogues are under way that there "may be a need for an ecumenical movement to bring the ecumenical committees together...
...John Courtney Murray, L.H.D., Jesuit theologian for showing knowledge without compromising the beliefs which he holds sacred...
...fraternity is an outgrowth of an interfaith meeting in Paris last spring, organized by Jesuit Theologian Jean Daniélou and Father Michel Hayek of Lebanon, lecturer on Christian-Moslem relations. To their delight, both Moslems and Jews accepted invitations to attend. "The discussion was often hot," Hayek recalls, "but no one threw any chairs." A series of subsequent discussions proved so rewarding that three months ago the leaders formed the Fraternity of Abraham-named after the Old Testament prophet revered by all three religions...
Others see posthumous salvation in terms of some kind of cosmic evolution toward perfection. According to the late Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, man is evolving toward an "Omega point," or ultimate encounter with God. To Methodist Schilling, the phenomenon involves "the ongoing life of the whole person, not of the body in the physical sense, but of something equivalent to what a body is, a notion of renewal rather than mere survival, in ways that we cannot know. It is a matter of faith, but I think a reasonable and intelligent faith...