Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most militant answer came from the new Jesuit General, Father Pedro Arrupe. What "the Black Pope" had to say shocked a number of progressive bishops and theologians. Arrupe charged that there is an atheistic conspiracy at large in the world that "holds almost complete sway in international organizations, in financial circles, in the fields of mass communications: press, cinema, radio and television." Even worse, he warned, this atheistic mentality "enters the very territory of the City of God, insidiously influencing the minds of believers (including even religious and priests) with its hidden poison, and producing its natural fruits...
...many of these same clergy and laymen describe Paul as a puzzle, an enigma, a Hamlet. "He has such a blah personality," complains one New York suburban housewife. A baffled Jesuit philosopher says: "I feel like a bull in a ring. Sometimes he goes one way, and I try to follow him, and then he goes the other way. Cagey, amorphous personalities make me unhappy." Many Catholic progressives are now convinced that Paul has deliberately sided all along with the conservative Curia, and they openly resent it. Austrian Historian Friedrich Heer fumes at "this small, narrow-minded, petit bourgeois person...
...third session last year, he upheld the right of nearly 200 conservatives to prevent a vote on the declaration on religious liberty, even though more than 1,000 prelates petitioned him "most urgently" for approval. At the time, council progressives were horrified. As things have turned out now, even Jesuit John Courtney Murray, a principal architect of the declaration, agrees that the text before the fathers at the fourth session is stronger than ever (see box). "The losers won a delay," says Bishop Robert E. Tracy of Baton Rouge. "The winners won a document." Last week...
...gloomy nature. Last week, for example, on a visit to the catacombs of Domitilla, he compared the persecuted Christians of old to those who today live in "nations with atheistic and totalitarian" governments. "I sometimes wonder if Paul isn't lacking in the virtue of hope," says one Jesuit...
Father Nedel's African colony at the University in São Leopoldo suddenly went berserk, forced one of his assistants to take refuge in a truck, then turned on another man, two dogs and several children. Next day the Jesuit beekeeper ordered his eight African queens destroyed...