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That resistance, coupled with the firing, eventually led Griffin to leave the priesthood (the Jesuit order) in February of 1975. His departure from his vocation points toward what Kelley sees as a trend among Catholic left leaders. "A lot of the leadership of the Catholic left has left, they have maintained their leftness, but have lost some of their Catholicness," she said...
Aside from its more political emphasis, the ousted ministry was also markedly different from the present Student Center's chaplaincy in its relationship with St. Paul's. Griffin said, "I felt that I could provide a different angle--something distinctive from the parish clergy. As a Jesuit I had more freedom than the parish clergy and I became very doubtful of the parish as an institution. It was too closed to the dissident Catholics who were concerned with social issues and who were not receiving support from the institutional Church...
With the Catholic left in retreat, at least one well-known Catholic-American maintains his activist stance. Jesuit Father Daniel J. Berrigan first captured the national spotlight eight years ago next month, when he raided the Selective Service office in Catonsville, Ohio, setting fire to a mass of draft records while solemnly reciting the Lord's Prayer. For Dan Berrigan today, the issues are different, but the basis for activism remains the same. In a speech at Harvard last month, Berrigan commented, "I am trying to take the seventies as I did the sixties, from the point of view...
...otherwise. "Jewett [L. Fred Jewett '57, Harvard-Radcliffe dean of admissions and financial aid] claimed that L. A. should be cut out completely because he had already sent two admissions officials there," Garcia says. But only two of the high schools covered by the officials--Montebello and Loyola, a Jesuit school--had predominantly Chicano populations. The compromise that ultimately emerged: one student recruiter would be funded by the admissions office in Los Angeles, and Garcia had to raise private contributions from individual Chicano undergrads to pay for the $300 plane fare...
...that emerged in the 11th century. Other curious paradoxes mark his career. He is both a dedicated socialist and a millionaire. Despite his fidelity to Druze beliefs, he was educated at Roman Catholic schools, and studied law and philosophy at the Sorbonne. He knew and was deeply influenced by Jesuit Theologian-Anthropologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, quotes Thomas Aquinas frequently, and is respected as an authority on the mysticism of St. John of the Cross. He is also a practitioner of yoga and a published poet to boot...