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...Jesuit Father John P. Leary, president of Spokane's Gonzaga University, told the American Association of School Administrators that the parochial school problem will be settled "through the strange accident of time and numbers." Though Catholics now constitute only one-sixth of the population, said Leary, "in the last five years, one-third of all the children born in the country were Catholic." As Leary figures it, "in 20 years, when this one-third have grown up, they probably will have half of all the children born. Within half a century, the Catholics will be a majority in this...
...abstract as it was before his conversion but is devoted now to religious themes. Admired by secular critics, Congdon's recent work, which last week went on display at the Betty Parsons Gallery in Manhattan, is praised even more by such Catholic intellectuals as Philosopher Jacques Maritain, Jesuit Theologian Martin D'Arcy and Author Thomas Merton. "Here," writes Merton, a Trappist monk in Kentucky, "we see a breakthrough of genuine spiritual light into the art of an abstract expressionist...
Masse, editor of the Jesuit weekly, America, wrote that good Roman Catholics could not be Birchers. There is, said...
...still suspicious of what Roman Catholics may have in mind-and is getting strong support for its fears: its membership has grown 40% since 1959 (to 175,000). P.O.A.U. mostly fights Catholic proposals; currently it objects to a Veterans Administration plan to sell land cheaply to Chicago's Jesuit Loyola University. But there are instances in which it can fight for Catholics; it once backed a fight by a Catholic teacher dismissed from a public school job for sending his children to parochial schools...
...number of other Catholic schools fall into the mass-production or good-small categories. Jesuits run the University of Detroit (10,957 students) and three Loyola Universities, named for the order's founder, in Chicago, Los Angeles and New Orleans. Also Jesuit-controlled: Wisconsin's Marquette University, though it now has only 60 Jesuits (and 420 lay teachers) for 10,300 students; Creighton University in Omaha, headed by the Very Rev. Carl Reinert, younger brother of St. Louis' president; and the University of Santa Clara (1,400 students), oldest college in California...