Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minded priests in Nicaragua, including Father Cardenal, who last week defied a church deadline for quitting government posts. The unusual haste with which the document was printed also indicates that John Paul wants to clear the air before next month, when he is scheduled to visit the Caribbean and Jesuit leaders in Latin America will hold a critical meeting...
...heartland. This week the English stage and film star finishes a four-week stint in Scranton, Pa., where she has been trying out one of her most challenging roles-that of university professor. Accompanied by her son Daniel, 15, Jackson has been on a working vacation at the Jesuit-run University of Scranton, teaching a master class in acting for a hand-picked group of twelve students from throughout the U.S. She has her charges reading from Shakespeare's sonnets and Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, using the accents of small-town America, and says, "That works...
...political killings and kidnapings a month). The results might also earn a small reward from the U.S. Congress, which is currently studying an Administration request for $10 million in "nonlethal" military aid for Guatemala, after a seven-year embargo on such assistance. Summed up the Rev. Kenneth Baker, a Jesuit priest and one of eleven official U.S. observers at the elections: "We have seen a tremendous hope in the future, but not necessarily a certainty...
Cuomo is not trendy. As the Governor himself proudly acknowledges in his recently published and thoughtful Diaries, he takes his Roman Catholicism, his family and his responsibilities to society very seriously. He has been deeply influenced by the thought of Jesuit Philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. His son Andrew, 26, is one of his closest aides. For a politician, Cuomo displays unusual ambivalence, even anguish, about some issues. Yet he can show hard-edged political courage as well. He has twice vetoed bills to re-establish the death penalty, even though a large majority of New Yorkers say they want...
...pursue the antiguerrilla war more aggressively. According to the Reagan Administration, the rebels are stockpiling Cuban-supplied armaments in anticipation of a major offensive in the fall. The combination of Duarte's political victory and the Administration's gains on Capitol Hill are worrisome to a Salvadoran Jesuit scholar, who says, "The electoral process has been a tremendous success. My problem is what will come out of it. I'm afraid our recent advance toward greater democracy will only lead to a more sophisticated war." Duarte, whose own harsh experiences with Salvadoran reality may have tempered...