Word: jesuitism
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...documents he has made public, is a nervous, intense and brilliant man. He is seen by his associates as possessing the mind of a Niels Bohr and the soul of a tortured Dostoevsky hero. As a former Pentagon colleague put it: "Dan would have been an excellent Jesuit in another time. He has a perfect logical mind and an unbending sense of morality." Ellsberg was for a time one of those faceless bureaucrats who sit at the fulcrum of decision making and are privy to the most guarded information. Yet he has a marked capacity for excess. One friend says...
...sons' radical impulses ultimately prevailed, of course, but their introductions to political activity were vastly differing ones. Daniel, a Jesuit, was almost entirely immersed in a clerical viewpoint; the strictness and internal discipline of his order insured that he would relate to political events within the perspective of the Church. And he seems a more deeply religious man than does Philip, whose instincts and activities have always been more secular-and more militant-in tone. A member of the more worldly Josephites, Philip was more capable of involving himself in social problems than was his more heavily committed Jesuit brother...
...family physician bucks the case to a psychosomaticist, who flounders in jargon. It takes a young Jesuit psychiatrist-priest, equally familiar with the uses of Librium and prayer, to understand that Regan suffers from old-fashioned possession by the devil. Sometimes known as Captain Howdy, he speaks through Regan's mouth, fills her room with his bad breath and levitates furniture. Lacking any of the stature of his medieval forms or any of the wit of his 19th and 20th century literary incarnations, this devil seems little more than a pathetic old pedophiliac clinging to the mere body...
...often angry. Most grudgingly accepted the sociological findings, which showed a majority of priests in favor of optional celibacy, but several conservatives pointedly noted that opinion polls do not determine church rules. But scathing attacks greeted a theological report on the priesthood prepared by a committee headed by Jesuit Carl Armbruster, of Illinois' Bellarmine School of Theology...
...Bishop Carlo Colombo of Milan, helped write a statement for the Italian hierarchy declaring that it is impossible to support or spread Kűng's views "without separating oneself from the full communion of the church." More startlingly, Kűng's old friend and mentor, Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner, doubted that a theologian with such opinions could still be considered a Catholic...