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...Cabinet and the Deputies who voted the church laws or embraced the entire Government from President Zamora down to the humblest customs inspector, was not stated. Hardest hit was Alcala Zamora. A devout Catholic, he dearly loves the solace of the Mass. When Madrid hotheads set fire to Jesuit churches two years ago, plump Senora Alcala Zamora distinguished herself by driving in an open carriage to each of the burned buildings, sitting before the door loudly saying her beads...
...minutes after 9 p. m. E. S. T. last Friday, Jesuit Fathers in their universities at Georgetown and Fordham watched seismographic needles squiggle excitedly across white paper drums. In snowy Cambridge, Harvard seismologists estimated the disturbance to be 2,600 mi. away. "You might be interested in knowing," a woman telephoned the New York Times, "that I have just tried to communicate with Los Angeles by telephone. The operator said: 'Sorry, I can't connect you. We're having an earthquake...
...Very Rev. William Coleman Nevils, Jesuit president of Georgetown University, found nothing harmful in the drawing, and a Catholic editor of the Junior Red Cross News pointed out that a Spanish parish priest might very well add "such homely touches" as giving a barley wafer (not a consecrated wheat wafer) to an animal. St. Anthony the Abbot is the patron of domestic animals as well as of hospitallers, basket-makers, butchers, gravediggers. On his feast, Jan. 17, the Italian and Spanish faithful may bring their animals to be blessed with a special prayer and be sprinkled with holy water...
...monk is Georges LeMaitre, Belgian priest, although he affects the conventional black suit of the learned U. S. Jesuit. No funster is he, although he chuckles continually. No nitwit is he, although he says of a steam engine device newly invented by his brother in Geneva: "It does something about the puff-puff-the exhaust-but I am not sure what it is." The Catholic University of Louvain educated him; the late Cardinal Mercier ordained him; M. I. T. taught him physics and English; Louvain created for him a chair of relativity. At 39 he deals with Nobel laureates...
...Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, was not a Fellow of Oxford nor did he have the benefit of our five Jesuit schools. Yet his ideas had a little something in them...