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...Vatican. After dismissing the encyclical as ''a venture in triviality" in one issue, the magazine returned to the attack with the revelation that "conservative Catholic circles"-of which Editor Buckley, 35, is the razor-tongued wunder-kind-were muttering "Mater si, Magistra no." At that, the Jesuit weekly America jumped into the fray, proclaiming that the National Review "owes its Catholic readers and journalistic allies an apology." Unapologetically, Career Iconoclast Buckley brushed off the protest with one word: "Impudent...
Brazil's history is studded with examples of unspeakable cruelty to the dark-skinned natives who lived there uncounted centuries before Cabral. Early Portuguese colonizers enslaved natives by the thousands to work the sugar plantations, butchered whole tribes as a warning to others. Jesuit missionaries, serving as the Indians' first "protectors," instead became their oppressors by herding them into new settlements so that their lands could be more easily confiscated. Dreaded mame-luko* raiders-crossbreeds of Portuguese and native blood-disguised as priests, swept down on the missions to carry off their congregations, sometimes killing the Jesuit fathers...
...Member G. Joseph Minetti), the first shipment of 30 packing cases contained mostly press notices of the Senator's storm-tossed career. But the remaining material, with its dossiers on his bétes rouges, would undoubtedly be more incendiary-and possibly libelous. Said an official of the Jesuit university, who assumed that Mrs. McCarthy was screening the files before she packed them: "I'm sure she's using her head...
Policing the Police. The son of a Brooklyn realtor, Anderson was a bright kid who skipped grades, got out of a Jesuit high school early to enter the Naval Academy as a skinny (6 ft. 3 in., 115 lb.) youngster of 16. He finished 27th in his 1927 class, then plunged wholeheartedly into naval aviation. His rise to high rank was steady, up to a third star as deputy to Pacific Commander Felix Stump in 1957. Then he abruptly asked for a reduction to two-star rank so that he could command a carrier division and meet an old tradition...
...argue with Jehovah's Witnesses, Roman Catholics were warned last week in the Jesuit weekly America. "Unprepared Catholics," wrote Albert Muller of the Catholic Evidence Guild, would accomplish little and might endanger their own faith: ''While the Witnesses' view of the Bible is a distorted one, the deplorable lack of knowledge that a Catholic is likely to have of the Holy Scriptures puts him at a serious disadvantage...