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...John XXIII was "servant of the servants of God" less than five years-the shortest reign since the obscure Pius VIII, who ruled for 20 ailing months after his election in 1829. But far from being the caretaker that the church expected, John created an atmosphere in which, says Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray, "a lot of things came unstuck -old patterns of thought, behavior, feeling. They were not challenged or refuted, but just sort of dropped...
...courts, unfortunate as it is, can only go so far-a fact expressed last week by Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray (TIME cover, Dec. 12, 1960), speaking in Manhattan. "The victory of the law," said Father Murray, "only raises a further and more profound issue for the social conscience of our country. When the limits of law have been reached as they have, the whole issue, in all its subtlety of reach, is inescapably presented to the higher tribunal of conscience...
...others on such minutiae as an early Swedish manuscript dealing with Persian saints and a papyrus describing the life of St. Phileas. Eventually, this material may find its way into the Bollandists' Acta Sanctorum of which only 69 volumes have been published in the 360 years since Dutch Jesuit Heribert Rosweyde undertook to write accurate hagiographies. But no volume of the Acta series has been released since 1940, and Bollandist Father Joseph van der Straeten admits that "no one can say when our next will be published. Maybe in a century, maybe...
Membership in the society (which takes its name from Father John van Bolland, Rosweyde's successor) is limited to six priest-scholars, who are always Jesuits and almost always Belgians. The Bollandists. who have no parish duties and seldom give public lectures, live in one wing of Brussels' College de St. Michel, do most of their work in their own five-tiered, 320,000-volume library. The society's leader is Father Maurice Coens, 70, a soft-spoken expert on medieval German saints and a Bollandist for 35 years. Prospective next member is Michel van Esbroeck...
...still studying in his home town in the French-speaking area of Switzerland. Soon he went to Paris as an apprentice architect. After several years travel, he settled permanently in Paris in 1917. Five years later he set up his headquarters on the Left Bank in a former Jesuit monastery at 35 Rue de Sevres which he still occupies...