Word: jesuitically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evelyn Waugh's feats in prose include one whole book without a line of comedy. This is it. Waugh finished writing it in 1935, some years after his conversion to Roman Catholicism, as a tribute to his faith and to the Jesuits. It is a biographical study, done skillfully and with full respect, of a fabulous Jesuit priest executed by order of Queen Elizabeth...
...16th Century Jesuit crossed the Channel in high spirits and in the gallant disguise-according to later charges-of "a velvet hat and a feather, a buff leather jerkin and velvet Venetians." For a full year Campion rode up & down the English counties, eluding the Queen's men, saying Mass in secret in Catholic houses. The Jesuits, Waugh says, "came with gaiety among a people where hope was dead...
...Gallows in the Rain. Gayest feather in any Jesuit hat was "Campion's Brag." This document, written for use after his almost certain arrest, circulated beforehand and made him famous. In it he asked for three audiences: with the Privy Council, the Masters of the Universities, and the lawyers of the realm, to prove the truth of his faith...
...Roman Catholic Church was willing to go halfway or better. If accepting Chinese ways and customs would help win China to Rome, then those ways and customs would be accepted. It was not a new idea. In the 17th Century, Pope Paul V gave Jesuit missionaries permission to say Mass in Chinese.* But the permission was soon withdrawn, and Pope Clement XI later forbade some of the native customs which the Jesuits had allowed converts to retain...
...Jesuit Father John LaFarge, editor of the weekly America, wrote last week: "When the Cardinals are in the headlines, people have sometimes spoken of them ... as 'the big shots' of the Catholic Church. . . . But the term applies to the Cardinals only in a limited way. In the Catholic Church the real 'big shots' are vast numbers of people whose lives are known only...