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...actually have an impact. It is time for the U.S. to take a more vocal and vigorous stand to protect the rights and dignity of the religiously observant in China. In Imperial China, the government was at times open to and interested in the ideas of Jesuit missionaries; the U.S. must use its influence to move China's current government towards this tradition of tolerance and away from the cheap excuse of nationalism it now uses to rationalize repression...
This aura of inexorability has led some people to wax poetic about cosmic purpose. The Jesuit theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, writing at midcentury, long before the Internet, nonetheless discerned a "thinking envelope of the earth" that he dubbed the "noosphere." This was the divinely ordained outcome of the two evolutions, and would lead to "Point Omega," where brotherly love would reign supreme...
...bizarre mix of lowbrow jokes and highbrow concepts and then vice versa." Ain't it, though? He mixes poop and prophecy, scatology and eschatology; he crams his script with enough belly laughs for six Adam Sandler movies and enough citations of angelology and the Gnostic gospels to make a Jesuit's head split. This is a Shavian debate--Don Juan in New Jersey--with potty mouth. Dogma, recall, comes from the Greek word meaning "to think." And that's what Smith wants the viewer...
...rejected it. This week the Virginia Quarterly Review, a journal apparently with less forbidding standards, will finally unveil "Lucas Beauchamp." The Review, published by the University of Virginia, where Faulkner was a writer-in-residence, inherited the story from the Rev. Patrick Samway, a former literary editor of a Jesuit magazine. Samway got a copy of the manuscript in 1975 but rediscovered it only earlier this year while cleaning out his files. "It seems strange that no one published it," Samway said. "But it wasn't until 1950 when he won the Nobel Prize that [Faulkner's] star rose...
...stereotypes that plague so many movies about the 60s, Passing Glory leaves audiences with a more realistic idea of what the atmosphere in segregated New Orleans must have been like. Many people had good reason to be frustrated, but progress did not always require violent events. The St. Augustine-Jesuit game paved the way for officially integrated competition in 1967. Because of Verrett and Grant, New Orleans finally got a real city championship. St. Augustine's success should hearten people who face inequality today by reminding them how much progress has been made since...