Word: jesuitically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rated No. 1 Catholic publication through its influence on teachers and clergymen, the Jesuit weekly America, edited by 52-year-old Francis Xavier Talbot, S.J. opposed the war and everything connected with it, including the draft. The Catholic World, a Paulist monthly edited by 64-year-old America-Firster Father James M. Gillis, is much more isolationist than America, though like almost every other isolationist Catholic publication it makes a distinction between national defense and intervention in World...
America, the Jesuit weekly, has put the problem with equal bluntness: "Without rural life, in a couple of generations we shall begin closing a fair-sized proportion of our city churches...
...Russia was not invited. Nazi Germany, though invited, sent regrets. But delegates from 560 of the world's colleges, universities and learned societies, outnumbering by some 50 the turnout at Harvard's 1936 Tercentenary, turned up last week to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Jesuit Fordham University, second largest Roman Catholic university...
...threatened shortage of sisters in the U.S.-alarming news for Roman Catholics, if true-was revealed last week by the Rev. Edward F. Garesché, a Manhattan Jesuit. His surveys of 43 American sisterhoods (one of which has already appeared in the Catholic weekly America} shows that they now receive only about three-fourths of the candidates they need, and the number of postulants has slumped steadily since...
Catholics do such long-range planning, even when facing regimes as anti-religious as Russia's. Catholics in many a country, especially Jesuits, have readied themselves for this opportunity. Outstanding group: 50 Russian youths now studying for the priesthood in Shanghai under an English Jesuit, Father Henry Wilcock...