Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Policing the Police. The son of a Brooklyn realtor, Anderson was a bright kid who skipped grades, got out of a Jesuit high school early to enter the Naval Academy as a skinny (6 ft. 3 in., 115 lb.) youngster of 16. He finished 27th in his 1927 class, then plunged wholeheartedly into naval aviation. His rise to high rank was steady, up to a third star as deputy to Pacific Commander Felix Stump in 1957. Then he abruptly asked for a reduction to two-star rank so that he could command a carrier division and meet an old tradition...
...argue with Jehovah's Witnesses, Roman Catholics were warned last week in the Jesuit weekly America. "Unprepared Catholics," wrote Albert Muller of the Catholic Evidence Guild, would accomplish little and might endanger their own faith: ''While the Witnesses' view of the Bible is a distorted one, the deplorable lack of knowledge that a Catholic is likely to have of the Holy Scriptures puts him at a serious disadvantage...
...Palatinate (and officially still called Ruprecht-Karl University). Heidelberg has survived wars before. For its Protestant loyalties. Roman Catholic armies looted the place in the Thirty Years' War (much of the library vanished into the Vatican). France's Louis XIV sacked it again; it reopened under Jesuit auspices in 1700 and foundered until the 19th century, when Protestants returned to launch the university's renowned reputation...
...week they said goodbye to their families and disappeared behind the walls of San Francisco University's Phelan Hall atop one of the city's hills, to spend the next three weeks going through the famed Spiritual Exercises of 16th century St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit Order. Beginning July 1, they will be ready to teach the theology of the Roman Catholic Church to ordinary men and women-Catholic and non-Catholic-in any parish that hires them. And hire is no figure of speech; each of them will start at $500 a month...
...Jesuit Zimmers sold his idea to enough bishops and pastors in California, Arizona and Nevada to finance the organization last year of the Institute of Lay Theology at the Jesuit-founded University of San Francisco (enrollment: 4,117). Here, for the past ten months, a faculty of 27 professors has been teaching the fine points...