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...TheU.S. is well on the way to a nervous breakdown, declared the Rev. Edward Aloysius Conway, S.J., associate editor of the Jesuit weekly America, at the commencement exercises of the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul. "The mind of the nation is becoming troubled, and its nerves are already frayed . . . How else explain the rising mistrust of each other, the roaring bitterness, the ranging of Americans against Americans, the scapegoat hunts, the assault on freedom of opinion, the intolerance of opposition, the increase in calumny, demagoguery, bigotry and smear? I am afraid it is because fear and frustration abound...
...faith healers' methods, they were tolerant of their objective. Said Psychologist David van Lennep of Utrecht: "Healers are excessive egocentrics, while those who go to them have no communication with the outside world. When they go to a regular doctor, they are just put into a medicine factory." Jesuit Father Louis Beirnaert, a practicing psychoanalyst, complained: "We have spent too much time criticizing healers because they are not doctors and not enough time criticizing doctors who are not healers...
...lesson. London has given British Honduras' newly chosen legislators none of the ministerial powers formerly granted the Guiana leaders. Guiana's leaders, moreover, were Reds: British Honduras' P.U.P. is not a Communist-influenced movement. On the contrary, most of its leaders learned their guiding principles from Jesuit fathers of St. Louis, who founded Belize's St. John's College in 1896 and taught Roman Catholic trade union-i§m in extension courses begun in 1947. The P.U.P.'s trade-union twin, the Gener al Workers Union, is an outgrowth of these courses...
...despite the disappointing calibre of the rest of the magazine, Kimball's story, also a fragment of a larger work, is an achievement of considerable stature. His subject is commonplace enough: the account of a misfit in a boys' school--this time a Jesuit Academy. But his insight and craftsmanship, together with a remarkable control of language, result in an intensely interesting piece of prose...
...Theodore V. Purcell, a Jesuit and assistant professor of industrial relations at Chicago's Loyola University, set out in 1949 to get answers to the question from the workers themselves. With the cooperation of both company and union, he spent 44 months talking to Swift & Co. meat-packing workers in Chicago's Pack-ingtown. Father Purcell became known as "the Packinghouse Padre" and (from wearing a white coat to meet sanitation rules) "the White-Frocked Priest...