Word: jesuitical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Feeney was once a distinguished and respected Jesuit priest...
...from the Files. Mother Mary Columba, once Elizabeth H. Tarpey, was born in Philadelphia to an Irish mother and an English father ("I wouldn't say he was very devout, but Mother was"), went to Catholic grade and high school. When she was twelve, she heard a Jesuit speak on Indian missions and wanted to leave at once. Her parents managed to persuade her to wait. While she waited, she read (Mark Twain and Horatio Alger in public, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the sly), eventually went to work as bookkeeper for Shellenberger Inc. (candy manufacturers). Six years later...
...Seville's white-robed Dominicans, dates from 1627, the period of Zurbaran's arrival as a mature artist. Seized by Napoleon's troops around 1807, it turned up in 1880 in the hands of Spain's Duke of Alba, who donated it to a Jesuit seminary in Canterbury, England. In 1950 the painting turned up again, heavily repainted, and was offered for sale first to the Louvre, which turned it down, then to a Paris art dealer. Last year Chicago Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich saw a photograph of the disputed masterpiece. He cabled...
...older, "Father Will," is hands-down the best-looking Jesuit in America and probably one of the brainiest. After some brilliant broken-field running through the Jesuit training program . . . he is back to his old stamping ground doing the thing he loves best: stirring up the 'happy vegetables' who populate the athletic teams . . . Younger brother "Rich" (by five or six years) has trained himself for his acting profession no less than Father Will . . . After walking off with every public-speaking and debating medal in the West, he returned after a tour to the South Pacific [as an artillery...
...question about our Lord coming back is interesting but academic," wrote Jesuit Father Joseph Christie, one of London's best-known Roman Catholic preachers. "He has never been away. In any Catholic Church you can find Him, and his authentic voice goes down the ages through His teaching church...