Word: jesuitically
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...missed a day of work. In the summer, Fitzgerald worked as a doorman too, a few blocks south of his father. But from a young age, Fitzgerald was on track to join the crowds of Upper East Siders swishing past him. He attended Regis High School, a scholarship-only Jesuit academy for bright Catholic boys, where he was a star on the debate team. Then he moved to Massachusetts to study math and economics at Amherst, followed by law school at Harvard...
...itself, I would hope, wouldn't prevent someone from becoming a priest," he says. All four church-contracted psychologists interviewed by TIME agreed vociferously with his contention that homosexuality doesn't make one more likely to sexually abuse children. For instance, Father Gerard McGlone, a Jesuit psychologist and a vice president of Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, believes some tightening of the admission process is appropriate: "I think to a certain extent the Vatican is correct in trying to weed out unhealthy expressions of the homosexual experience." But he is also worried that tougher guidelines might backfire by encouraging...
Confidence in Tulane’s response to Katrina began to falter after students spent four days waiting for the school to release a plan of action. Across town, Loyola had already informed its students to look into other schools and was helping them apply to other Jesuit colleges. Though Tulane has tried to keep members of the community up to date through its makeshift website and weekly online chats, parents of students have been frustrated by busy signals at Tulane’s temporary office in Houston...
...sense of how Benedict's new station would affect his theology and whether his avid pursuit of heretics as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith meant that heads would roll. Would there be more like Thomas Reese, the open-minded editor of the Jesuit magazine America, whose departure was apparently sealed with Benedict's election? When would the new Pope tear into the ecclesiastic "filth" inside his church and the "dictatorship of relativism" outside it that he had diagnosed preconclave? Benedict's first 100 days have offered no definitive answers, but occasional modest indicators--plus...
...Philippines is Jaime Cardinal Sin, the Archbishop of Manila ... [He] has diplomatic gifts that have been invaluable tools in guiding church policy ... When Marcos called for early presidential elections last year, the church was ready. The groundwork for selecting opposition candidates ... had been worked out by the so-called Jesuit Mafia ... [which] concluded that the strongest possible opposition candidate was Benigno Aquino's widow, Corazon. During the precampaign maneuvering, Cardinal Sin met several times with Aquino ... THE PRIMATE REASSURED AQUINO THAT SHE COULD SUCCESSFULLY CHALLENGE MARCOS ... Sin tactfully refrained from endorsing the ticket in public, but there was no doubt...