Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Vatican ordered Massachusetts Democrat Robert Drinan, a Jesuit priest, to withdraw from public office last May, 15 politicians lunged for his seat in Congress. By August, polls indicated that Barney Frank, 40, a Harvard-educated former aide to Boston Mayor Kevin White and a popular state legislator for eight years, was the clear favorite. Frank had been endorsed by Drinan and Senator Edward Kennedy. Moreover, voters in the largely liberal district, which includes wealthy Boston suburbs and factory towns in central Massachusetts, liked the rumpled candidate's advocacy of more public spending on mass transit, senior citizens...
...more clearly." They had such success at reaching out to withdrawn, sick and lonely people that the idea quickly spread. Peckham now estimates the number of Holy Fool groups alone at 2,000 of the total 3,000. There are even Roman Catholic clowns. Says Father Nick Weber, a Jesuit priest and a clown whose ministry is an itinerant sidewalk circus: "If you make believe, the chance for belief is heightened...
Since his death in 1955, the Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who was also an accomplished paleontologist, has become something of a cult figure. Millions of readers have been fascinated by his writings, which often put him at odds with ecclesiastical authorities. Particularly controversial were his views on evolution, which, he held, moves in an upward direction with increasing domination of spirit over matter. Now the saintly Teilhard stands accused of a little playful tampering with evolution. Last week he was implicated as a conspirator in one of the most famous scientific hoaxes: the notorious Piltdown caper...
...apparently led to timely canonizations: the sanctification of the 22 19th century Ugandan Martyrs was speeded up because Africa needs saints badly. One of the five beatified last week, just in time for John Paul's current visit to Brazil, was José de Anchieta, a 16th century Jesuit known as "the apostle of Brazil...
Vatican prelates said that John Paul's order on Drinan does not apply to priests who have appointive positions in government. In Nicaragua, for example, seven priests hold high posts in the leftist revolutionary government. Among them are Jesuit Ernesto Cardenal, the Minister of Culture, and Maryknoll Priest Miguel D'Escoto, the Foreign Minister. In the U.S., Geno Baroni, 49, a diocesan priest, is Assistant Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development...