Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courts, unfortunate as it is, can only go so far-a fact expressed last week by Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray (TIME cover, Dec. 12, 1960), speaking in Manhattan. "The victory of the law," said Father Murray, "only raises a further and more profound issue for the social conscience of our country. When the limits of law have been reached as they have, the whole issue, in all its subtlety of reach, is inescapably presented to the higher tribunal of conscience...
...still studying in his home town in the French-speaking area of Switzerland. Soon he went to Paris as an apprentice architect. After several years travel, he settled permanently in Paris in 1917. Five years later he set up his headquarters on the Left Bank in a former Jesuit monastery at 35 Rue de Sevres which he still occupies...
...conservatives took out their wrath in the kind of paper warfare scholars love: footnote-stippled articles in somber technical journals that few laymen ever see. Their principal target was Rome's Jesuit-run Pontifical Biblical Institute, one of the two institutions in the world where Catholics can get a degree to teach Scripture.* In a series of finger-wagging papers, monsignori attached to Rome's Curia-principally Paolo Cecchetti, Antonino Romeo and Antonio Piolanti-began hinting that certain teachers...
...Biblicum, dismissed the attacks as "systematically deformed calumnies"; yet it soon became clear that his enemies were well placed. In 1961 the Holy Office issued a monitum (warning) against excesses in Catholic Scriptural interpretation. Last June the Holy Office ordered two of the Biblicum's New Testament scholars, Jesuit Fathers Maximilian Zerwick and Stanislaus Lyonnet, suspended from their teaching assignments. At a victory celebration in a Rome pensione that night, one Curia official gleefully said: "This time we shall break their monopoly." Every bishop arriving in Rome for the Vatican Council last fall was handed a pamphlet, written...
...Revue Biblique put out by the Ecole Biblique - which are read and respected by scholars of all faiths. Protestant Bible students have high regard for the work of such men as Catholic University's Semitics expert, Monsignor Patrick Skehan, Father David Stanley of the State University of Iowa, Jesuit John McKenzie of Loyola University of Chicago. Says W. D. Davies, professor of Biblical Theology at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary: "I wouldn't dream of undertaking a scholarly work without studying what Catholics have done first." Catholics and Protestants still disagree on the theological interpretation of many...