Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Society of Jesus, goes an old Jesuit joke, is "a monarchy limited only by the incompetence of its superiors and the insubordination of their subjects...
...meeting, sponsored by West Germany's Paulist Society for Christian lay men, included such topnotch theologians as Jesuit Karl Rahner and Herbert Vorgrimler of Freiburg as well as three observers from a new Vatican secretariat for nonbelievers, which is headed by Franziskus Cardinal Konig of Vienna. The major Communist speakers were French Party Theoretician Roger Garaudy and one of Bulgaria's ranking ideologues, Asari Polikarov...
...Marx himself admitted, Communism is the "profane realization" of the "human base of Christendom," said Garaudy. "In 1965 we can ask, 'Do not the most advanced Christians begin to walk on the same road as we do?' " . Some of the Catholic scholars were doubtful. Asked Jesuit Rahner: "What guarantees can Communism give that when it comes to power it will not persecute the church as it has done in the past?" Physiologist Hans Schaefer of Heidelberg noted that there seemed to be more signs of change in Catholicism than in Communism. "In most of the speeches one hears...
Even in the Roman Catholic Church, where bishops overwhelmingly reject the idea, at least a few theologians wonder about the possibility of change. In a recent book, Peruvian Jesuit José Idigoras argued that there was no difference in the rites of ordination for deacons and deaconesses in early Christianity, and that St. Paul's misogynistic teachings ("I permit no woman to teach") must be interpreted in light of women's position at the time. Some members of the St. Joan's International Alliance, an association of equality-seeking Catholic women, have petitioned Rome to allow women...
...Manhattan press conference last week, Father De Pauw argued that the American bishops had been bamboozled into accepting reform by a few liberal theologians, such as Jesuit John Courtney Murray and Catholic University Liturgist Frederick McManus, who have "misrepresented the American Catholics and seduced the bishops in Rome." De Pauw hinted that these theological liberals were also flirting with heresy by downgrading the authority of the Pope and devotion to Mary. To counteract these tendencies, he said, his movement is urging the bishops to limit the number of vernacular Masses and take a national referendum on Catholic opinion about...