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...presence of acne, shaving devolved to massacre. At the tough Jesuit high school I attended, a prefect of discipline, Father Donahue, confronted a Polish kid who, for three days running, refused the prefect's order to shave the dirty shadow of down from his cheeks. Finally, Father Donahue led the kid into his office by the ear and dry-shaved him himself with a "safety razor. " Maybe Father Donahue learned about the operation from reading about the Mohawks and Iroquois, who sent Jesuit martyrs to heaven centuries...
...Jesuit-run radio outlet has several dozen transmitters on a plot 30 km from Rome. They are used to broadcast the Church's message in 35 languages around the world. Residents of two nearby towns have been complaining for years that the signals disrupt doorbells, phones and television sets. Only recently have the health aspects of electromagnetic pollution, dubbed by the Italians elettrosmog, become an issue. A consumer group claims that communities near the transmitters have higher incidences of leukemia among children than those in the rest of the region around Rome, a statistic contested by the Vatican. Two Jesuit...
...first clues to the Trillion Dollar Gang were detected not in Mindanao but in Los Angeles. In early 1998, customs officials found fake Treasury notes hidden in the suitcase of a Filipino Jesuit priest. Investigators eventually traced the fake bonds to a shantytown on the edges of Cagayan de Oro. There, in the home of a security guard named Archie Mingoc, police found a box containing $1.38 trillion in fake bonds and stacks of counterfeit Japanese, Malaysian and Argentinian currency. A raid on the home of his brother-in-law, Renato Waban, yielded an additional $773 billion in bonds. Mingoc...
Moakley gained power and influence in the Democrat-controlled House, reaching the pinnacle of his career as chair of the Rules Committee, a final checkpoint for all legislation. In 1989, investigations he pursued helped implicate the military of El Salvador in the murder of six Jesuit priests, a finding that dried up American military aid and hastened the end of El Salvador's civil...
...Jack is an impressive and inspiring higher education leader," Kennedy said. "He articulates a powerful vision of Georgetown University's future and has a remarkable commitment to Georgetown's distinctive mission as a Catholic and Jesuit university. He appreciates academic excellence deeply and has earned a reputation for being an outstanding teacher...