Word: jesuitical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, just 334 years after he was canonized, more than 200,000 graduates of the nation's Jesuit-run high schools, colleges and universities (69, with an enrollment of 122,418) gathered in some 150 U.S. cities and towns for special Masses and breakfasts in honor of St. Ignatius of Loyola. For U.S. Roman Catholics it was the high point of the Ignatian Year - the 400th anniversary of Loyola's death. Since last July 31, in churches, chapels and mission stations all over the world, Roman Catholics have been honoring the memory of one of the great...
...came off in 1814, and ever since then the Society of Jesus has grown in size, in works and in repute. There are now 7,751 Jesuits in the U.S. (largest contingent in any country), 123 Jesuit parishes (including 16 missions to the American Indians), and the American Jesuits edit 24 national magazines, e.g., America, Jesuit Missions. The Queen's Work...
Billy got a pat on the back from a U.S. Catholic publication last week. Said the Jesuit weekly America: "We recognize that there are many profound differences between the faith of Billy Graham and the faith professed by members of the Roman Catholic Church. Nevertheless . . . we rather like Mr. Graham . . . On many fundamental points of Christian doctrine, he is in error. Catholics may not attend his revival services. However, when he is put in the balance with some of his critics, he looks a lot more like a Christian than they...
...aimed primarily at conversion, The Bridge "tries to show the unity of God's design as it leads from the Law to the Gospel-the unbroken economy of salvation." The first volume has provocative articles by 18 highly diverse writers, e.g., Renaissance Scholar and Jazz Critic Barry Ulanov, Jesuit Philosopher William L. Rossner. Hebraic Scholar Mother Marie Thaddea de Sion, and covers the range of Judaeo-Christian interests from Abraham to Simone Weil. The Bridge offers many paths to better understanding of both the Jewish and Christian heritage. Items...
Died. James B. Macelwane, S.J., 72, world-famed seismologist, dean of St. Louis University's Institute of Technology, president of the American Geophysical Union, author (Theoretical Seismology); of a liver infection; in St. Louis. A top authority on earthquakes, Jesuit Macelwane developed a system for tracking hurricanes, pioneered in the use of the seismograph to detect oil deposits...