Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unhealthy faith that often show up among new adherents to dogmatic churches: "an irrational intensity of belief" in the new doctrine, greater concern for form and theology than for ethical and moral principles, hatred of past beliefs, intolerance of deviation, and the desire for martyrdom to prove devotion. Jesuit Philosopher and Critic William F. Lynch added that neurotic religion frequently shows up among Roman Catholics as a denial of human feelings, a desire to find the will of God in every decision, and an unhealthy dependence on dogma as a means of obtaining absolute certainty...
...contraception. "The official teaching authority has decreed that contraception is always wrong," wrote Father McMahon in the Birmingham Post. "This is what I deny." It is also denied in practice by millions of Catholics. "They don't leave the church over birth control nowadays," says San Francisco Jesuit George Kennard. "They leave that particular doctrine...
...month said that "1964 will go down in the history of the Catholic press as a year of shame." Not only were certain publications guilty of attacking bishops by name, but, claimed the prelate, they called into question "the obligation of the laity to accept the teaching of bishops." Jesuit officials suppressed the publication of a symposium on obedience that raised some critical questions about the society's rules. Hierarchical pressure last month forced the National Council of Catholic Men to cancel a four-part television series explaining the current church-wide debate over birth control. Both Father McMahon...
...theologians who feel that such blunt methods are as obsolete as the Inquisition, and derive from an outdated understanding of the church as a purely juridical institution. Authority, they argue, has indeed the right to command and condemn-but it has an even greater obligation to love and serve. Jesuit Biblical Scholar John L. McKenzie of Chicago believes that the concept of bishops and priests as servants rather than masters of their flocks is a return to the earliest tradition of the church: "The base of authority in the New Testament is love, not the power to command...
Jean Renoir, the French film director, saw his first movies in a Jesuit school where the fathers, " as they everywhere are, were in love with show business." He smiled at the Ivy Film types crowding the Loeb and continued to describe how one small boy who went to the movies on Saturday afternoon grew up to be the director of The Grand Illusion...