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When San Furanshisuko Saberyusu, as the Japanese called the Spanish Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier, landed at Kagoshima in 1549, he was not quite the first Westerner to enter Japan. But the Portuguese merchants who had arrived before him were viewed with well-bred distaste by the Japanese. What could one make of such odd-colored, hairy, round-eyed barbarians? "I do not know whether they have a proper system of ceremonial etiquette," one Oriental lord wrote of the Namban-jin, or "people from the south." "They eat with their fingers instead of chopsticks as we do. They show their feelings...
...polycaste world of the Secular City, and that they did-tutoring in Harlem, working in the U.N., in drug clinics, in mental health, with the aged. Last week the 125 seminarians were called together and told that their noble experiment had come to an end. On orders from the Jesuit Superior General in Rome, the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe, Woodstock will cease to be a Jesuit school of theology...
Death Sentence. The Jesuits tried to put a good face on things. It was no simple ukase from Rome, they said. Arrupe had simply endorsed a recommendation made by the heads of the ten U.S. Jesuit "provinces." Because the number of Jesuit seminarians was dropping off so severely-only 120 or so are expected to be in theology schools by 1978-the provincials wanted to pool their educational resources by closing two of the five existing Jesuit theologates and strengthening the remaining three. Chosen by Arrupe to survive: Cambridge's Weston College, Chicago's Bellarmine School of Theology...
...Woodstock? For one thing, geography: the Jesuits had to sacrifice one of two schools in the Midwest, one of two in the East. For another, the Woodstock experiment had been broadcast as a failure even before it really got off the ground-principally by ex-Jesuit Garry Wills in an acerbic 1971 piece in New York magazine. Wills' article (currently a chapter in his book Bare Ruined Choirs) was made even more damaging by the accompanying photos of seminarians lounging en deshabille. It undercut Woodstock's hopes and image at a crucial time...
...miles of the Upper West Side, housed the studious here, the activists there. Beards and long hair vied with modest sideburns, turtlenecks and slacks with cutoffs and bare feet. Some places became crash pads and beer-and-coffee houses for local activists (a number of the Woodstock Jesuits were active Berrigan antiwar allies). More than a few of the many visitors were young women. But the surviving Jesuit colleges are not that much different. Their seminarians live fraternity-style in neighborhood houses or apartments, receive monthly checks just as those in Manhattan do, come and go as they please. What...