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Even before he became the Jesuit Provincial (in 1945), sharp-featured Father D'Arcy had an unusually widespread influence. As Master of Oxford's Roman Catholic Campion Hall (for more than a decade), he turned its three-story building into a religious museum of valuable paintings, rare books, tokens. His urbane charm and cultivated mind have influenced a quarter-century's crop of Oxonians and helped bring many a British highbrow into his broadbrowed church...
...Reverend Leonard Feeney, S.J., noted Jesuit author and lecturer, will be guest speaker at a communion breakfast on Sunday morning, the first Sunday in Lent, under the auspices of the combined Harvard and Radcliffe Catholic Clubs...
...that Joyce's "imaginative constructions are ... grounded on the rock of his buried religious experience." Strictly speaking, Joyce's religious experience was adolescent. He was barely out of his teens when he renounced Ireland and with it the Roman Catholic Church. Much has been made of his Jesuit education, of how his mind was formed by Catholicism and in particular by St. Thomas Aquinas. It is equally true to say that his mind was formed about as independently as any mind ever was. His mocking The Holy Office, written in 1904 against his Irish enemies and crudely descriptive...
...story he wrote was hailed as a moving and beautifully expressed tribute to Marian Anderson and Negro Americans. This response came from Protestants and Catholics alike. The Inter-Racial Department of the Institute of Social Order (a group of Jesuit priests dedicated to improving the social order in America) has asked permission to reprint up to 100,000 copies of the story for distribution throughout the U.S. G. Bromley Oxnam, Methodist Bishop of New York, was moved to write: "To me, this is journalism at a high level. It is the finest statement of the case against racial discrimination that...
Antigonish* is a tidy little Nova Scotian town (pop. 2,200) with a picturesque name and a unique university: St. Francis Xavier. To St. F.X., as Bluenoses call it, educators come from all over the world. Last week Jesuit Father Ralph O'Neill, of Philadelphia, arrived. Like the others, he had come to study the Antigonish Movement, to see how adult and cooperative education had bettered the lot of Maritime fishermen and farmers. He wanted to do similar work among the Filipinos...