Word: jesuitical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liveliness and readability. Many Catholic papers draw enough advertising to turn a steady profit; where they do not, the church pays their deficits. The press still suffers widely from what Bishop Dwyer called "a good deal of pious incompetence." But the intellectual weeklies-the liberal lay Commonweal and the Jesuit-edited America, etc.-come up to any secular standard; the layman-edited monthly Jubilee is a tasteful slick picture magazine, and an infusion of trained lay journalists has given many of the diocesan papers both professional polish and a telling effect in their communities. Last week the association honored...
...Roman Catholics "need not be afraid" of the Dead Sea Scrolls, said the Rev. Ernest Vogt, the Vatican's foremost expert on scripture studies. In Osservatore Romano Jesuit Vogt said that the manuscripts discovered so far give proof of "the substantial faithfulness of the sacred texts transmitted...
...Riccardo Lombardi, S.J., spellbinding preacher of social responsibility to the Roman Catholic rich (TIME, March 1, 1948), is supervising construction of a building near Castel Gandolfo to be called "Pius XII Center for a Better World." "I shall dedicate what remains of my life," said Jesuit Lombardi, 47, "to creating half-a-dozen apostles and perhaps as many as 1,000 preachers who will continue my work . . . The Catholic camp must re-examine itself, and only the Pope can direct such a thing. But to do so, he needs the assistance of a stable organization that can dedicate the whole...
...years since they were first awarded, 1,478 Rhodes scholarships have gone to Americans, but only twelve of these students we,re from Roman Catholic campuses. Does that mean that the program discriminates against Catholic colleges? In the current America, Jesuit weekly, Education Editor Neil G. McCluskey makes an answer: no. In the process he makes some pertinent observations on how Rhodes scholars are born...
...Catholic colleges? In 1954 the combined total of applicants accredited by all American colleges and universities was 425. That same year 19 Catholic institutions presented a total of 21 applicants. In 1955 eleven Catholic institutions accredited 15 candidates among a national total of roughly 500." In other words, concludes Jesuit McCluskey, the Catholic campuses just don't seem to care enough. "In view of the figures cited above, it does seem rather foolish to look elsewhere for the principal reason explaining the paltry results...