Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...church's government. It serves as the liaison office between Rome and non-Catholic churchmen, will handle the invitations to Protestant and Orthodox leaders who are expected to attend the Second Vatican Council in October as observers. The presiding cleric: Augustin Cardinal Bea, 81, a German Jesuit who was confessor to Pope Pius...
...have been sent in by non-Italian bishops for inclusion on the agenda of the Vatican Council. One of the most common requests : more freedom for diocesan bishops to adapt church practices to the needs of their people. One of the sharpest attacks in recent years came from Italian Jesuit Riccardo Lombardi (TIME, Feb. 2), who urged that Curia officials step down after reaching a mandatory retirement age, deplored the splendiferous costumes of cardinals and bishops, recommended that Curia officials be chosen from the best men available in the world, rather than in Italy. Lombardi's plea was bluntly...
...Jesuit Father John P. Leary, president of Spokane's Gonzaga University, told the American Association of School Administrators that the parochial school problem will be settled "through the strange accident of time and numbers." Though Catholics now constitute only one-sixth of the population, said Leary, "in the last five years, one-third of all the children born in the country were Catholic." As Leary figures it, "in 20 years, when this one-third have grown up, they probably will have half of all the children born. Within half a century, the Catholics will be a majority in this...
...abstract as it was before his conversion but is devoted now to religious themes. Admired by secular critics, Congdon's recent work, which last week went on display at the Betty Parsons Gallery in Manhattan, is praised even more by such Catholic intellectuals as Philosopher Jacques Maritain, Jesuit Theologian Martin D'Arcy and Author Thomas Merton. "Here," writes Merton, a Trappist monk in Kentucky, "we see a breakthrough of genuine spiritual light into the art of an abstract expressionist...
...still suspicious of what Roman Catholics may have in mind-and is getting strong support for its fears: its membership has grown 40% since 1959 (to 175,000). P.O.A.U. mostly fights Catholic proposals; currently it objects to a Veterans Administration plan to sell land cheaply to Chicago's Jesuit Loyola University. But there are instances in which it can fight for Catholics; it once backed a fight by a Catholic teacher dismissed from a public school job for sending his children to parochial schools...