Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With Mr. Kennedy in the White House, things are bound to be different for American Catholics." So says the Jesuit weekly America, in an editorial saluting John F. Kennedy, by whose election "the full first-class citizenship of U.S. Catholics was at long last ratified." Continues the editorial...
These questions have been asked so often in one form or another that they, and the answers to them, have become almost cliches. But the man who asked-and answered-those above was no cliche-monger. He was the late French Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), a noted paleontologist who was forbidden by the Roman Catholic Church to publish his philosophical writings, which have since sparked a posthumous cult of "Teil-hardism" in France. Recently published in the U.S. is a book Teilhard wrote 35 years ago - a spiritual meditation on the cosmology he later developed from...
...uncle, Onsegongo, who brought her up, was chagrined when at the age of eight she refused to be betrothed to the young Indian he had picked out for her. He was outraged when, at the age of 20, she was baptized by Jesuit Missionary Father Jacques de Lamberville, who gave her the Christian name Catherine-in Indian, Kateri. Her Mohawk family and their friends gave the young Christian a hard time. Her refusal to work on Sunday made it a fast day-"If you won't work, you won't eat," said her aunts. Uncle Onsegongo encouraged drunken...
...bottomless," he recalls as he waves his elbows to show how he tried again and again to crawl out on the ice, only to have another piece break off and dunk him. "We broke through 73 feet that way. Twice I gave up. But life is sweet." Jesuit Llorente has served in various Alaskan missions, including three years north of the Arctic Circle. But his most arduous work began in 1950 when he was assigned to Alakanuk, on a Yukon delta island. Here he found 3,000 Eskimos and fewer than 100 whites-a parish of 4,000 square miles...
...built a wooden church with his own hands, moved into a shed behind it. Father Llorente found himself coping with many a problem he had not learned about in his Jesuit schooling-the extra clerical work, for example, caused by the Eskimos' practice of changing their names whenever a member of the family dies, so that the returning spirit would not know whom to haunt. He soon laid aside his clericals (though he uses vestments at Mass). "I don't need identifying clothes," he explains. "They know me if they hear me sneeze in the dark...