Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years. The structure of ritual is so elaborately linked* that any change is likely to become a crucial change. If Latin were dropped, for example, it might be natural also to drop plain chant, which is awkward in most other languages. "In the last four centuries," says Jesuit Liturgist Hermann Schmidt, "the ideal has become immutability. Certainly God is immutable; but we are men, and we cannot always express ourselves the same. This is a crisis of immutability...
...course; it's a prayer." Those favoring liturgical reform emphasized the necessity of relating the Mass to the people, beginning with the use of a language that the people understand. They argue that unless worshipers can participate in the service, the Mass becomes "mere devotionalism." Liturgy, warns Jesuit Schmidt, "will not exercise any influence on the mass of the people if it is divorced from modern civilization and from the existing social situation...
...destined for the Navy. Son of a Brooklyn real estate man, Anderson developed a childhood love of the sea while running an outboard motorboat in the waters off Long Island's South Shore. A bright kid, he zipped through a Jesuit high in fast time, graduated at 16. When he heard that Manhattan Congressman Ogden Mills had a couple of Naval Academy billets at his disposal, Anderson wrote a persuasive letter requesting an appointment. Mills, who did not represent Anderson's district, wired back: Establish residence in Manhattan and the appointment is yours. Anderson did so, entered...
...more and more traditional Protestants and Catholics are acknowledging a similarity between the unsophisticated, unfashionable Pentecostals and the unsophisticated, unfashionable early Christians. Says Jesuit Scholar Daniel J. O'Hanlon: "We can learn from the Pentecostals that the central Christian message must be proclaimed in all its clarity and simplicity." Admits William Elliott, chairman of the Presbyterian Board of World Missions: "We do not feel that they excel us in a theological point of view. But they often shame us in their zeal to proclaim our Lord as they understand...
Many of the observers were met at the airports by Dutch Monsignor Jan Willebrands, assistant to Augustin Cardinal Bea, the elderly Jesuit Biblical scholar who heads the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. They were assigned choice pensioni close to the Vatican (at Vatican expense) and the best seats in St. Peter's at all sessions, including secret ones. Most impressive of all, the observers were given copies of the Schemata-the supersecret council agenda that has been seen by no one but the council fathers. "When I heard that they had the Schemata. I almost fell...