Word: jesuitically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story he wrote was hailed as a moving and beautifully expressed tribute to Marian Anderson and Negro Americans. This response came from Protestants and Catholics alike. The Inter-Racial Department of the Institute of Social Order (a group of Jesuit priests dedicated to improving the social order in America) has asked permission to reprint up to 100,000 copies of the story for distribution throughout the U.S. G. Bromley Oxnam, Methodist Bishop of New York, was moved to write: "To me, this is journalism at a high level. It is the finest statement of the case against racial discrimination that...
Antigonish* is a tidy little Nova Scotian town (pop. 2,200) with a picturesque name and a unique university: St. Francis Xavier. To St. F.X., as Bluenoses call it, educators come from all over the world. Last week Jesuit Father Ralph O'Neill, of Philadelphia, arrived. Like the others, he had come to study the Antigonish Movement, to see how adult and cooperative education had bettered the lot of Maritime fishermen and farmers. He wanted to do similar work among the Filipinos...
TIME, with characteristic Jesuit duplicity, deleted from my letter [Oct. 21] that part which it knew would stir honest indignation against such bigoted fanaticism as that of Simon Elwes, who cannot forego religious discrimination even in connection with the dead; and so proposes "a world memorial for Catholic soldiers," the supreme sacrifice of non-Catholics apparently being unworthy of commemoration...
...leader chosen, a messenger sped to bring the news to the Pope. Each elector kissed the hand of the new General in sign of obedience, and the doors were flung wide to reveal to outsiders the new leader: Father John Baptist Janssens of Belgium, a Jesuit since 1907; tall, thin, pale, ascetic, 56-year-old ex-professor of canon law at Louvain University, later head of the Jesuit province of Northern Belgium...
...Pius XI; her process started ten years after her death in 1917, giving her one of the quickest canonizations of modern times. (Three others were proclaimed saints at the Vatican ceremonies last week: Jeanne-Elizabeth Bichier des Ages, a French nun who died in 1838; Bernardino Realini, an Italian Jesuit, who died in 1616; John de Britto, Portuguese missionary martyred in India...