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Evelyn Waugh's feats in prose include one whole book without a line of comedy. This is it. Waugh finished writing it in 1935, some years after his conversion to Roman Catholicism, as a tribute to his faith and to the Jesuits. It is a biographical study, done skillfully and with full respect, of a fabulous Jesuit priest executed by order of Queen Elizabeth...
...Roman Catholic Church was willing to go halfway or better. If accepting Chinese ways and customs would help win China to Rome, then those ways and customs would be accepted. It was not a new idea. In the 17th Century, Pope Paul V gave Jesuit missionaries permission to say Mass in Chinese.* But the permission was soon withdrawn, and Pope Clement XI later forbade some of the native customs which the Jesuits had allowed converts to retain...
...Jesuit Father John LaFarge, editor of the weekly America, wrote last week: "When the Cardinals are in the headlines, people have sometimes spoken of them ... as 'the big shots' of the Catholic Church. . . . But the term applies to the Cardinals only in a limited way. In the Catholic Church the real 'big shots' are vast numbers of people whose lives are known only...
...good but undistinguished student at Fordham, a Jesuit college but no seminary. He wrote poetry, excelled in Latin, helped build a wireless set as a member of the Secchi Scientific Society. He was a careful dresser, and liked convivial company...
...Said German Ernst Haeckel: "Not even the clearest and most precise logic makes a man a match for a Jesuit...