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...interesting to see the effect of American Christianity on its adherents in your article, "The Great Conspiracy." Two of the executives were described as "pillars of the community"-one, a vestryman of the Episcopal Church, and the other, chairman of a campaign to build a Jesuit seminary. This is an indictment not only of American business but of the American churchgoing community, which allows such driftwood to become "pillars." Ethical behavior and Sunday church attendance have no interrelation...
...Plea. In four Deep South states (Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina), public school integration at any level is limited to the two Negroes who recently entered the University of Georgia. Roman Catholic integration is confined to one elementary parochial school in South Carolina, a seminary in Mississippi and the Jesuit-run Spring Hill College in Mobile. It is likely to remain so. Charleston's Bishop Paul J. Hallinan gives his church's explanation: "The Catholics are 1.3% of the population in our state. If the full federal power cannot carry this off, it's fatuous to think...
...sentencing went on, lawyers rose to describe their clients as pillars of the community. William S. Ginn, 45, vice president of General Electric, was the director of a boys' club in Schenectady, N.Y. and the chairman of a campaign to build a new Jesuit seminary in Lenox, Mass. His lawyer pleaded that Ginn not be put "behind bars with common criminals who have been convicted of embezzlement and other serious crimes." Judge Ganey thought the company appropriate, gave Ginn 30 days in jail. The lawyer for Charles I. Mauntel, Westinghouse division sales manager and a man prominent in charitable...
...With Mr. Kennedy in the White House, things are bound to be different for American Catholics." So says the Jesuit weekly America, in an editorial saluting John F. Kennedy, by whose election "the full first-class citizenship of U.S. Catholics was at long last ratified." Continues the editorial...
These questions have been asked so often in one form or another that they, and the answers to them, have become almost cliches. But the man who asked-and answered-those above was no cliche-monger. He was the late French Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), a noted paleontologist who was forbidden by the Roman Catholic Church to publish his philosophical writings, which have since sparked a posthumous cult of "Teil-hardism" in France. Recently published in the U.S. is a book Teilhard wrote 35 years ago - a spiritual meditation on the cosmology he later developed from...