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...central figure, Jean Cardinal Daniélou, was an internationally famous Jesuit theologian, a prince of the Roman Catholic Church, a personal friend of Pope Paul VI, and an honored "immortal" of the French Academy. After he died of an aneurysm one afternoon in May, supposedly on the street, Daniélou, 69, was lavishly eulogized by the French episcopacy, the Jesuit Superior General and the Vatican...
...Jerry Brown hardly resembles his bluff, amiable father. The son is a bachelor, cool and withdrawn, who was once a Jesuit seminarian. In one of his rare flashes of humor, Brown cracked that his Jesuit schooling had given him unique qualifications for office: "Who else in the race has had eight years of Latin and four of Greek...
...Branch" and urging members of Congress to cleanse the Government. T. Eugene Coffin, pastor of the East Whittier Friends Church, where Nixon is on the membership roll, has refused to say anything critical of the President, but he is said to be a distraught man. Father John McLaughlin, the Jesuit who is a White House adviser, is still trying to straighten things out with some members of his faith for his defense of the language and thoughts found on the tapes...
...speechwriter on the White House staff at a salary of about $30,000. To distinguish between his sacerdotal and political roles, he abandoned the Roman collar ("a one-inch piece of plastic") except for church events. Last week McLaughlin's superior, the Very Rev. Richard Cleary, Jesuit provincial of New England, issued a statement dissociating the Society of Jesus from McLaughlin's views and summoned him to report to Boston for prayer and reflection...
McLaughlin has made clear that he feels he is being discriminated against because of his political views. Boston, he notes, is at "the geopolitical center of liberal thinking," and he points out that another Jesuit, Democratic Congressman Robert Drinan of Massachusetts (with whom he attended seminary), has made controversial public statements without being reprimanded. Other Jesuits maintain that it is not politics that is at issue but the vows of poverty and obedience. Drinan, they note, lives in a Jesuit house at Georgetown University, while McLaughlin rents an expensive apartment in the Watergate complex. ("Physical poverty," McLaughlin says, "does more...