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...successfully these revisions will reflect the tone expected by the majority is problematical. Barring a last-minute change of heart by Pope Paul, the revisions will still be supervised by Curia cardinals. A case in point is the chapter favoring religious liberty, which was composed in part by U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray. In response to considerable pressure from Italian and Spanish bishops, Pope Paul intends to have it revised by the Theological Commission and its president, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, who is dead set against Murray's ideas on liberty of conscience...
...Catholic universities do not emphasize creed at the expense of scholarship. Some require several hours of religious study a week; others do not. Almost all accept Protestant and Jewish students, hire non-Catholic teachers. Leftist students? A black-robed Jesuit administrator at Guatemala's Rafael Landivar University shrugs his shoulders. "For all I know, they may be our best students. They keep their politics to themselves...
...Reed, where "he doesn't inspire respect as Stevenson did," the gripe is Kennedy's caution on the civil rights bill. At exuberant Wisconsin, "he's liked in a negative way," faulted for lack of political conviction. "We're sick of him," say dissidents at Jesuit Georgetown...
...20th century church. One, which faces bitter opposition from Italian and Spanish conservatives at the council, declares that every man has the right to worship as his conscience dictates, and that all men, as well as the state, are duty-bound to respect this right. Says U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray: "This hits right at the heart of the old Roman thesis that freedom of religion is only tolerated when Catholics are in the minority, and disappears when Catholics are in the majority...
...idiom of contemporary Manhattan and ancillary Fairfield County. Smith has a great marble mausoleum under construction, air-conditioned, flood-and earthquake-proof. Smith moodily lurks there from time to time. The ghosts are of the contemporary autobiographical kind-Smith's own spectral guilty memories acquired in a posh Jesuit prep school. The furies are represented by the Press. Evil is represented by the abandoned power-bitch wife whose cold heart can never be touched by the grace of love, but there are others to offer it in all its forms...