Word: jesuitically
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...Weston Jesuit School of Theology, which has trained priests in Harvard’s shadow for more than eight decades, may leave its longtime home off Garden Street as part of a proposed merger with Boston College...
Joining Weston and BC would create “a Jesuit presence unrivaled anywhere in the world,” according to BC spokesman Jack Dunn...
Merger plans are still in a preliminary stage, and officials from both schools said they do not expect to reach an agreement for at least six months. Any deal would require the approval of the Rome-based Society of Jesus—the official name of the Jesuit order. Both schools’ boards have given the go-ahead for talks to begin...
Weston owns two buildings on Phillips Place—which runs between Brattle and Garden Streets—as well as several Jesuit houses throughout Cambridge and an apartment for lay students on Harvard Street toward Central Square, according to Stachniewicz. It rents classroom space from its next-door neighbor, the Episcopal Divinity School. Stachniewicz said talks with BC are still at such a preliminary stage that Weston has not decided what it will do with its Cambridge holdings if a merger deal is in fact reached...
...description is of Goa on May 6, 1542, the day the missionary St. Francis Xavier first set foot on the Indian subcontinent. Four hundred and sixty-two years later, you can still find some in the backpacker idyll to whom Coleridge's words apply. But the suggestion that the Jesuit adventurer had little lasting influence is at odds with events this month in the former Portuguese colony. For 43 days until Jan. 2, a continuous procession of 2 million people will shuffle past Xavier's body?which is believed by the faithful to be miraculously uncorrupted since it was moved...