Word: jesuitical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boxing sinful? Two Roman Catholic moralists are slugging it out over the issue, while Italy roots at the ringside. In the staid church fortnightly. Palestra del Clero, Jesuit Alfredo Boschi has been conducting a campaign against the sport as a violation of the commandment "Thou shalt not kill." "Professional boxing can not be justified from a moral viewpoint but must be condemned as something gravely illicit in itself," he wrote. "It not only produces but aims to produce serious injuries which can become permanent and can lead to death...
...Jesuits who will be ordained in the Roman Catholic priesthood at New York's Fordham University next week is Avery R. Dulles, 37, youngest son of Presbyterian John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State. In the current issue of the Jesuit weekly America, Convert Dulles turns a well-honed mind to the 22-year-old National Legion of Decency, the Catholic agency for screening and grading movies for their moral content...
Catholic consciences had best be formed outside the theater, warns Jesuit Dulles, otherwise it may be too late. "It would not be enough to resolve to leave in case you found yourself severely tempted. By that time you would already have incurred a serious danger of interiorly yielding to temptation, and the seeds of future temptation would already be implanted in your soul. Granted the normal tendencies of human nature, it is unlikely that an individual would be strong-minded enough to prevent these evils by leaving the theater as soon as the first signs of danger appeared." Anyone...
Spring Hill College, a 126-year-old Jesuit institution in Mobile, Ala., this week graduated a Negro for the first time in its history. The graduate: Mrs. Fannie Motley, 30, a transfer student from the Alabama State College for Negroes...
...John F. Long, S.J., first Jesuit to be trained in the Roman Catholic Russian Rite in the U.S., will be ordained this week at Fordham University. The Russian Rite is a section of the Oriental Rite, one of the two great branches of Roman Catholic liturgy (the other is called the Latin Rite), which follows closely the liturgical pattern of the Eastern Orthodox Church...