Word: jesuitical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First with the Best. It was not always so. The Jesuits had no permanent headquarters in England until the mid-19th century, when official tolerance at last encouraged them to establish one. In 1840 a delegation of Jesuit priests, cautiously clad in secular clothes with top hats, paid ?5,800 for the Farm Street leasehold in what was then a stifling congestion of stables and cab-choked cobble streets. But as Mayfair spread out and the Edwardian upper crust turned the stables into mews flats, Farm Street became top-drawer. The best known Farm Street figure of this elegant...
...answering any attacks made upon Catholics.'' Immaculate Conception is no parish church; it contains no baptismal font and performs no marriages. Instead, its 20-odd priests in residence handle a tough, three-part assignment: 1) administering (under Father Desmond Boyle) the 903 members of the Jesuit Order in England, Scotland, Wales, Rhodesia and British Guiana, 2) publishing (under Father Philip Caraman) a highbrow monthly called The Month and extending the ministry to the literate with lectures, newspaper articles, radio broadcasts, etc., 3) preaching and instructing converts...
Just a Job. Last week Farm Street got a new boss. Tall, spindle-faced Father Leo Belton, 63, is a shy scholar who has spent 24 years in the capacities of teacher, chaplain and headmaster at Stonyhurst, a Jesuit school for boys. Though he is almost painfully reserved, Father Belton seems to have no qualms about his new role as head of his order's most active newsmaker. He accepts it as one more opportunity to fulfill his vow of obedience...
...There's no such thing as a promotion in the Jesuit Order," he said last week. "One year you might be head of a college, the next you might be director of boys' games. Now I am superior of Farm Street, a famous church, but it is just a job to be done. I won't change anything; it will go on as it always has-a pool of information and assistance, ready to be drawn upon whenever it is needed...
...Francis unquestionably gave the tournament its real color; the Jesuit school from the far north featured players with such picturesque names as Fraser O'Shaughnessy and Alex MacSween in its starting line-up. And St. Francis even sported a priest, Father Andy Hogan, in the coaching spot. As one spectator groaned after watching the Canadians in action; "These guys even have God on their side...