Word: jesuitical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protestant Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill heartily concurred with his British spiritual brothers. But Roman Catholics were quick to discount any divisive effect of the new dogma. The Assumption would be no impediment "to our separated brothers," wrote the Rev. Giuseppe Filograssi in the authoritative Jesuit fornightly Civiltà Catholica. "The true and crucial point of dissension rests in the primacy and infallibility of the Pope...
Somehow the spiritual needs of the prisoners were filled. A Jesuit priest managed to grant absolutions and perform clandestine Mass each day for Roman Catholic prisoners. Lilje and other Protestant pastors wrote meditations and commentaries to be passed around. Among the most heroic were the Jehovah's Wit nesses. Owing to their "absolute love of truth, the Gestapo were glad to use these men in various prisons as informers, for in their love of truth they always went so far that they disregarded all ties of comradeship ... In spite of this, we owe them that respect which we would...
...take as a tomahawk in the skull: babies bashed to death against trees, a prisoner ripped in half by the main force of some 20 of his captors, another with thumbs cut off and a sharp stake driven up his arm to the elbow; the torture of famed Jesuit Father Jogues, who was later massacred with his party...
...Believe. After 55 minutes of such fast-stepping talk, the Rev. Thomas Corbishley, chubby Jesuit Master of Oxford's Catholic Campion Hall, got to his feet. "Mr. Quinton," he began, "do you believe the statement that no statement is true unless it is verifiable...
...Clarke asserts that Jesuit priests studying at Harvard were on the side of the University during the conflict. She says that these priests sat, "apparently unmoved, in the classes of atheists and Marxist sympathizers," and that after Father Feeney had censured them, they started "a crusade of persecution" against Father Feeney...