Word: jesuitism
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Europe's national states developed intelligence agencies of increasing complexity. England's first secret service was organized by Sir Francis Walsingham, who kept Elizabeth I informed of the growth of the Spanish Armada, and who infiltrated the Jesuit underground in England with several agents. Walsingham employed a number of minor poets, and perhaps Playwright Christopher Marlowe as well, started English intelligence off on a high literary note that it has never entirely lost. Britain's literarily gifted secret agents have included Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, and Novelist Somerset Maugham...
...Jesuit Father Gerard Murphy says ". . . nowadays a girl marries a fellow of 25 and 15 years later finds she is still mated with a Boy Scout"-TIME...
...Catholic woman graduate of a Jesuit college, I would like to comment that Father Joseph F. Cantillon (who thinks modern woman has "sold out to commercialism") is typical of a good cross section of teaching Jesuits. They must be misogynists at heart, always emphasizing the "sanctity of woman's body" but never the integrity of her mind ... I would suggest some honest soul-searching for these unrealistic fathers, and orchids to Father Gerard Murphy and the increasing number of his prototypes among the younger Jesuits...
Johannes Leppich, son of a Silesian farmhand, was a Jesuit novice when the Nazis thrust him into the Reich Labor Service. He chopped trees in Pomerania, he played in Labor Service bands, he served in the army, and finally returned to the Jesuits. After Germany's defeat, he preached to refugees from the Eastern zone and former soldiers. But he yearned for a larger challenge. In 1949, in a circus tent in Essen, he began a "crusade for ethical revival...
...people of other faiths and of none, including Communists, turn up along with the Catholics. He finishes in the early dawn, then retires to the local parish house, where he sleeps briefly, nibbles at fruit, vegetables and milk, and prays when he has a free moment. "As a good Jesuit, I need three hours of prayer daily," he says...