Word: jesuitical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Naples last week, Italian moppets were gleefully playing a new game-"To Rome in Holy Year." Invented by a Jesuit priest named Sergio de Gioia, who also instructs the youth of Italy with what he calls "a catechistic newspaper with comic strips," the new game is played by spinning a wheel to determine the number of squares the player may advance on his journey to the Holy Father...
...editor of the Jesuit weekly, America. Subject: Is the Catholic Church Fundamentally Hostile to American Democracy...
Such control of Catholic judgment on the Church, as well as on "foreign affairs, social hygiene, public education and modern science," rejoined Jesuit Hartnett, is not a matter of Catholic political power but of the Catholic faith which Blanshard claims to respect. "It just so happens to be the personal belief of every Catholic that Almighty God, through Jesus Christ, empowered the hierarchy to apply moral judgments to all areas of human conduct, social as well as private. One of the rude errors of this whole thing is the impression that the bishops are herding the people around. People...
...interpretation of doctrine came from the church's sharpest intellectual spearhead, Rome's official Jesuit fortnightly, Civilta Cattolica. The lead article in its current issue is an attack by fiery-eyed, black-haired Jesuit Father Antonio Messineo on a bill recently introduced in the Italian Chamber of Deputies that would legalize conscientious objection. Writes Father Messineo...
...Said Jesuit Heithaus: "We are asking too much if we expect Negroes to see Christ's church in an organization that seems (to them at least) to be run by whites, for whites, and according to white men's notions . . . No matter how shabby a store-front church may be, most Negroes would unhesitatingly prefer it to the most magnificent Catholic church -in which a Negro would be shunned, stared at or given the deep-freeze treatment. Most Negroes would prefer such a church even to our so-called 'Negro' churches in which an all-Negro...