Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...activity. In communities across the nation, Fundamentalists and other religionists are lobbying against homosexual-rights bills. They are alarmed by a federal court ruling applying the District of Columbia gay-rights law. The judges rejected Georgetown University's constitutional claim of freedom to practice Catholic teaching and said the Jesuit school should be forced to recognize and fund a gay student group. A rehearing is pending...
...marrying a Sacred Heart nun, Elizabeth McAlister, in 1973; she is serving a three-year prison sentence for vandalizing a B-52 bomber. The couple try to alternate prison terms to care for their three children at Jonah House, a communal residence in Baltimore. Brother Daniel Berrigan, 63, a Jesuit, works with a New York City peace group and counsels AIDS and cancer victims at a Manhattan hospice...
Father Nicolas Kluiters, a Dutch Jesuit priest who had lived in Lebanon for 20 years, last month appeared to have joined the growing list of Westerners abducted by Islamic fundamentalists. A few days later his car was found, along with a note claiming that he was the captive of a previously unheard-of organization. Last week a farmer in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley stumbled upon the priest's decomposing body at the bottom of a ravine. An autopsy showed that he had been strangled shortly after his capture, and police theorized that the kidnaping was the work of robbers...
...editorial vigorously rejected a 1984 German book, Unity of the Churches --Real Possibility, co-authored by the late Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner and Father Heinrich Fries of the University of Munich. The attack was signed by French Dominican Daniel Ols, who teaches at the Pontifical Angelicum University in Rome. Such an editorial does not carry the weight of a Vatican pronouncement, but Ols says that he was asked to write his piece "by the hierarchy," which would mean by key aides of the Pope or even by John Paul himself...
...tensions and maneuvers that accompanied the Boff and Gutierrez affairs are quite likely to continue. However successful the Pope has been so far in fixing the limits of church orthodoxy, an informed Jesuit in Rome acknowledges that "the church in Latin America is changing, and everyone accepts that a long-term process has begun." For the Supreme Pontiff, the task of defining liberation also may be a long...