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...testimony before Securities and Exchange Commission investigators, implicated Wilson in some of the business deals that preceded his downfall. The massive swindle masterminded by Sharp is the biggest Texas fraud case since Billie Sol Estes' capers of a decade ago. Sharp's manipulations have cost a Jesuit preparatory school $6,000,000, pushed two insurance companies into receivership, and led to the first bank failure in Houston's history...
These are the words of James Schall, 43, a crew-cut Jesuit priest and teacher who takes a dim view of ecology, American style. The environmental movement that has captured the nation's imagination, says Schall, who divides the year between Rome's prestigious Pontifical Gregorian University and the University of San Francisco, is really little more than heresy...
Writing in the Jesuit magazine America, Schall says that the nation's growing commitment to the environment is a "dangerous" and "unbalanced" trend. Rather than being a "pragmatic recognition of cleanliness and conservation," it seems all too often to be a "kind of subtle undermining, in its theoretical origins, of the destiny and dignity of man himself...
...Russell's film script is based on both Aldous Huxley's sardonic history The Devils of Loudun and a play by John Whiting. It presents the Jesuit Father Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed) as a sexually profligate and politically dangerous priest who threatens the intricate schemes of the insatiable Cardinal Richelieu. To gain control of the walled city of Loudun-thus crushing a steadfast fortress of independence in France -Richelieu and his minions engineer a trial at which Grandier stands accused of inducing hysteria in a convent of Ursuline nuns...
...federal aid program for colleges, Chief Justice Burger's opinion reasoned, lies in the court's belief that parochial schoolteachers are less likely than professors at religious colleges to keep religion out of their secular courses. ("Give me a child for the first seven years," says a Jesuit maxim, "and you may do what you like with him afterwards.") Even with the best of intentions, a dedicated layman "teaching in a school affiliated with his or her faith and operated to inculcate its tenets, will inevitably experience great difficulty in remaining religiously neutral." Moreover, Burger argued, schools have...