Word: jesuitically
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...often refused to allow Catholics through the doors, nervous the “papism” of students—and their sheer numbers—would reduce educational quality for the other pupils. Desperate, Catholic city councils (like Boston’s) gave whatever support they could to Jesuit private schools to allow at least some of the children to attend institutions that functioned essentially as public schools...
...think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself?" JACKIE KENNEDY, widow of President John F. Kennedy, to her Jesuit spiritual adviser months after her husband's assassination, in letters released by Georgetown University...
...streets of Dublin - in their police uniforms. Although the Irish government paid some €50,000 in compensation to the young fashion designer, the officers who assaulted her were never disciplined. Only scant details of other such incidents are ever published. But according to Father Peter McVerry, a Jesuit priest and activist who tracks the cases, in the past five years police have paid out more than €6 million to settle cases involving questionable conduct of the police, or gardaí. And last week, a report by the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture...
CASA member Dan McLaughlin said the recentarrests of several military officers for thekilling of six Jesuit priests in November did notpersuade him that Cristiani was improving hishuman-rights policies...
...Khyentse Norbu was born in 1961 in eastern Bhutan to a Bhutanese mother and a Tibetan high lama father. His paternal grandfather had also been a lama. So no one in the family was too surprised when, at the age of seven, Khyentse Norbu was approached at his Jesuit elementary school by a group of Tibetan monks. They informed him that he had been identified as the third reincarnation of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, a lama and theologian who presided over Dzongsar Monastery in eastern Tibet in the 19th century. The monks took the young rinpoche to Sikkim, now in modern...