Word: jesuitic
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There may have been other subtle factors at work. Liberal Jesuit Sociologist John Coleman suggests that the bishops almost instinctively grasped the arms race as a moral issue because they needed to restore their "credibility" with the laity, which had eroded because the hierarchy had no choice but to support Pope Paul's unpopular (and widely ignored) ban on birth control...
...evacuation of the Palestine Liberation Organization from West Beirut last summer, Amin met quietly with Abu Iyad, the P.L.O.'s military commander. Born in the predominantly Christian village of Bikfaya, in the mountains east of Beirut, Amin was groomed from boyhood to become a political leader. He attended Jesuit-run elementary and secondary schools, and went on to receive a law degree in 1965 from the St. Joseph University in Beirut. When...
...that a church panel within any U.S. diocese has gone so far as to accept homosexual behavior. Not surprisingly, many centrist and conservative Catholics in the archdiocese were alarmed not only by the contents of the report but by the fact that it was issued at all. Said Conservative Jesuit Joseph Fessio, director of the St. Ignatius Institute at the University of San Francisco: "If the Catholic Church has a view of sexuality that is correct, then the most compassionate thing the church can do is to clearly express that unambiguously. To let people think they can be authentically human...
They were formed at least 7,000 years ago when the retreating glaciers of the last ice age left behind great pockets of water. So pure and shimmering were they that early Jesuit explorers called them "seas of sweet water." During the War of 1812, they were the scene of a memorable battle in which the young American Navy administered a stinging defeat to the British. In the nearly two centuries since then, the Great Lakes have seen nothing more violent than the nor'westers that occasionally blow down from Canada. Forming an extraordinarily peaceful boundary between eight American...
Haig, a bundle of Jesuit rectitude and West Point ardor, rose to power through the smoldering remains of one political disaster after another. His intentions were not evil...