Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that has changed. Now the nation's fourth largest Roman Catholic university,* Jesuit-run Fordham has a healthy sprinkling of non-Catholics among its 6,997 full-time students. Strong in English, French, philosophy and the classics, Fordham now trails only Notre Dame in overall quality among Catholic schools, and is rapidly trying to catch up. Faculty salaries have been upgraded-the average pay of full professors, $13,543 in 1965, will reach $22,500 in three years-and the school is on the hunt for academic stars with the stature of Communications Pundit Marshall McLuhan, who will join...
...university's era of innovation began under the Rev. Vincent T. O'Keefe, who left the presidency in 1965 to serve as a Jesuit executive in Rome, and is being enthusiastically carried on by his successor, Father Leo McLaughlin, 54. A onetime dean of Fordham College who has a doctorate of letters from the University of Paris, Jesuit McLaughlin wants Fordham to achieve "true greatness in action," even by Ivy League standards. While Fordham will always retain "the distinctive attributes of a Catholic university," he is confident that it can "move into the mainstream" of U.S. education...
...Pope Paul has made it clear that he will maintain the rule of wifeless priests, a surprisingly large number of clerics think that some modification is in order. This month Kansas City's enterprising National Catholic Reporter published a survey of 3,000 U.S. diocesan priests, conducted by Jesuit Sociologist Joseph Fichter of Harvard. His finding: 62% of the clergy believed that priests should have the choice of marriage or celibacy; 31% might marry if the church would allow...
...Marxist atheists has been under way in Europe. Although there are few domestic Communists around who are worth debating, U.S. theologians are showing interest in joining the discussion - even if they have to import a Communist. Thus Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, the Harvard Divinity School and Jesuit-run St. Louis University were among the dozen institutions that played host to Roger Garaudy, the chief theoretician of the French Communist Party, while he was on a brief U.S. lecture tour this month. Last week officials of the Soviet embassy in Washington went out to Maryland's Woodstock Seminary...
...Cardinal König, has set up a dozen joint Christian-atheist study groups. On the Marxist side, such leading Red theoreticians as Garaudy and Poland's Adam Schaff have taken part in the Paulus Society seminars. Many European Communist thinkers quote approvingly from the works of French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, whose The Phenomenon of Man was recently published in Moscow...