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...AGNOSTIC-Augustine Caffrey, 48, former Jesuit priest. Fairfield University President William Mclnnes declared that a professor at the Catholic institution could not teach theology while questioning the faith. Fairfield's board of trustees rebuffed Mclnnes and supported Caffrey, who is currently teaching Problems of Atheism...
Teilhard de Chardin was a French Jesuit and paleontologist by profession, co-discoverer of the "Peking Man." He wrote extensively throughout his life and his theology is based on a vision of the cosmic evolution of man proceeding from the alpha point--base matter--to the omega point--the union of man and God in God's perfectness. Freire borrows this cosmic optimism for the future of man but tempers it with the political realism of Reinhold Niebur, an American Protestant theologian. Friere and Neibur feel that the cosmic evolution of man can become pathologically fixated at a certain point...
...Catholic at Harvard, the importance of Richard Griffin's Jesuit and prophetic past and present, Ann Kelley's search for her role as a woman in the Church, Father Murray's ecumenical sense, or Father Collins' parish security is not whether one tradition wins or loses in the future, is not wrapped up in the lengthy papers of the bishop's Synod in Rome; and is not in the future of St. Paul's Church. Their significance must be found in Christ's dual promise of inner meaning for the individual and the promise of a new world...
Eventually, Sharp pleaded guilty to bilking a Jesuit preparatory school of $6,000,000, forcing two insurance companies into receivership and causing the first bank failure in the history of Houston. Testifying under a federal grant of immunity, he named Wilson as one of the people involved in creating his financial empire. Whether Wilson's actions were dishonest-or merely unwise-they made his resignation inevitable...
...Jesuit faculty members--Joseph Appleyard and James Halpin--had begun the day's activities at 8 a.m. with a prayer meeting in front of Alumni Hall. When the recruiters arrived at 9 a.m., students attending the prayer meeting blocked their way by sitting in front of the entrances to the building...