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Wynn and Father Arrupe first met at Arrupe's office in the Jesuit Curia building, where the Jesuit superior general interrupts interviews to answer his own phone and otherwise shows little patience with pomp and ceremony. Just outside the office, Wynn noticed a small green cushion. That, Arrupe told him, was where he sits to pray in Zen Buddhist style, a habit he picked up while serving for 27 years as a missionary in Japan. "When we send a man to China, he becomes a Chinaman," explained Arrupe. "When we send him to India, he becomes an Indian...
That was what a score of other TIME correspondents also discovered as they sought out members of Arrupe's 31,000-man Jesuit army at locations from Hong Kong to California. In India, New Delhi Correspondent James Shepherd interviewed one Jesuit while they both sat in the yoga lotus position on prayer mats. Others were clad in Indian robes, sandals, and sported swami beards. In Berkeley, TIME'S Lois Armstrong found that the priests could also adapt easily to the Californian way of life. For their weekly cocktail party at the Jesuit School of Theology, they donned sports...
Correspondent Burton Pines visited Jesuit universities throughout the Midwest. There, young priests in turtlenecks and Levi's discussed their concern with the order's role in the secular community, while older priests, sitting in book-cluttered offices, worried over the relaxation of Jesuit discipline. "Most were delightfully irreverent toward the papacy and church hierarchy," reports Pines. "Their intellectual self-confidence, plus their legendary commitment to logical, rational thought, made every conversation with the Jesuits a heady trip, leaving me with a genuine high...
...cover story was written by Religion Editor Mayo Mohs and edited by Associate Editor Lance Morrow. A graduate of Xavier University in Cincinnati before joining TIME in 1966, Mohs taught at Loyola High School in Los Angeles. Both are Jesuit institutions...
...shared religious identity and their common appendage?S.J., for the Society of Jesus?they are a bewilderingly diverse fraternity. They are seismologists, swamis, architects and engineers, theologians and winemakers, politicians, lawyers, social workers, astronomers, revolutionaries, economists?as well as missionaries, teachers and parish priests. The dictionary lists the adjective Jesuitical as a condemnation?"given to intrigue or equivocation"?but the title of Jesuit also carries the tradition of their aggressive brilliance...