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...Wills It." Jesuit Father Lombardi believes that the Jesus who came to earth at the decline of Roman civilization, and again manifested Himself in Saint Francis at the close of the Dark Ages, is about to come again to the troubled and despairing world. To prepare the way, Father Lombardi this month is launching his biggest undertaking-a "crusade" which he calls fronte dell'amore (the front of love). Love is his rallying cry and his bridge between the spiritual and the political worlds: "Men and women, arise! A new age approaches. . . . You were born...
Niebuhr is professor of Applied Christianity at New York's Union Theological Seminary, while Father O'Brien heads Boston College's Department of Philosophy and is president of the Jesuit Philosophical Society...
...approve of Communism? The answer is no. Can he wholeheartedly endorse free private enterprise? The answer is still no.* Diocesan study groups and Catholic labor schools are doing their best to fight Communism with something more than exorcism and epithets. Last week one of the leaders in this field, Jesuit Father William J. Smith, director of Brooklyn's Crown Heights Labor School, explained his church's position: "Business is not the property of its owners; it is a society in which stockholders and employees are social partners and must work together. Capitalism and the right to a profit...
Last week, in Manhattan, 49-year-old German Jesuit Lassalle described how he did it. The Japanese in Brazil, he explained, came there originally to farm and fish, make their fortunes and return home. The Jesuits first became interested in them in 1924 as a means toward the tough job of converting Japan...
...tall, whip-smart young Jesuit named Father Hernan Benitez saw to it that Eva Perén's visit to Paris was the works. He showed up in the French capital ahead of time, quickly signed up the big shots for dinners and receptions, arranged a sightseeing schedule that omitted few historical monuments. But Father Benitez, who is both Evita's chaperon and confessor, could do nothing about the weather. The weather was cruel...