Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...falls serve the picture as a moral and geographical dividing line. Above them, in 18th century Paraguay, live the Guarani Indians, which the movie asks us to believe were converted to Christianity by Jesuit missionaries without damage to their Rousseauean innocence. Below the falls lies an unpleasant civilization, composed of Spanish and Portuguese colonists bent on enslaving the Indians if they can drive out their priestly protectors...
...another exception, despite grumbling from conservative laity and bishops, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops hired Jesuit Michael Buckley as the executive director of its doctrine committee. In 1977 Buckley had signed a significant open letter to Rome complaining that the Vatican decree against women priests used "faulty" arguments and "could impose a grave injustice." However, the Vatican did not fight Buckley's appointment, reasoning that the letter did not exactly deny its teaching...
Among the books Coffman allegedly took from the Jesuit college were Aquinas' "Tract on Being and Essence," printed in Cologne in 1480; his "Golden Chains," printed in Cologne in 1482; and Pope Boniface's "Life of Christ by Bonaventure," printed in Paris...
...campus leader for the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principals (CARP), an affiliate of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement, is attempting to form a chapter at Jesuit-run Boston College, according to The Heights, the campus daily...
...founder's battle cry did not always ring well in the 1960s and '70s. Popes John XXIII and Paul VI were building bridges toward Marxists and atheists, a policy that still attracts some of Italy's bishops. Many of them -- including Milan's influential Jesuit Archbishop Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini -- are dismayed by C.L.'s independent spirit and its insistence that a true Christian can have only one political and social outlook, a fault they label "integralism." Retorts C.L. Member Ronza: "We don't want to impose our Christian ideals on anyone, but we want an equal hearing...