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...storm is so insidious as a perfect calm, no enemy so dangerous as the absence of enemies," St. Ignatius Loyola once told his followers. He need not have worried that the Society of Jesus, which he founded in 1534, would ever be without enemies. Over the centuries, Jesuits have been accused not only of seeking to undermine various rulers (including a number of Popes) but of plotting to assassinate no fewer than four European monarchs. By the 18th century they had become so powerful that enemies referred to the superior general of the black-clad order as the "Black Pope...
...Society of Jesus was formed originally as a kind of spiritual Marine Corps to check the advance of Protestantism during the Counter Reformation. But in recent years Jesuit theologians have championed change within the church, most notably during the 1962-65 Second Vatican Council. But if the Jesuits have stood strong against all manner of assault from without, they have not weathered so well a storm of change from within. The society is still the largest single Catholic order. But its ranks, thinned by the turmoil in the church since Vatican II, have dwindled from an alltime high...
When John Paul held his first formal meeting with the Jesuit leadership in September 1979, he criticized its "secularistic tendencies." In particular, he lamented its inadequate stress on the church's official teaching and on the priestly character of the Jesuit mission. The Pope made clear that he was just repeating criticisms voiced by his immediate predecessors, Paul VI and John Paul I. But his rebukes prompted speculation that he was dissatisfied with Arrupe's direction. Arrupe has delegated greater authority to provincial superiors around the world, and one high-ranking Vatican source feels that the Pope...
...General's Corps, the two lived in Frankfurt, West Germany, for three years, where she worked as a civilian lawyer for the Quartermaster Corps. They returned to the U.S., moving to Phoenix in 1957, when the first of their three sons was born. All the children attended a Jesuit-run high school in Phoenix (Sandra O'Connor is an Episcopalian, her husband a former Roman Catholic). Scott, 23, graduated from Stanford last year; Brian, 21, attends Colorado College; and Jay, 19, is a sophomore at Stanford. After a brief fling at running her own law firm...
Working from the top, Brooks' candidates for pioneers of the new style are Bernie Cornfeld, whose flamboyant style ridiculed the low profile of international business; Governor Jerry Brown, the Jesuit-Zen candidate who flouted the rules of politics; and George Plimpton, the upper-class New Yorker whose characterizations as a dilettante in professional sports disguised a professional writer. But what of Gloria Vanderbilt, who declassed herself to become the Duchess of Denim, and of the homosexual parodists in entertainment and fashion...