Word: jesuitism
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...Spanish Republic, in attacking the Jesuit Order, is fulfilling a revolutionary tradition. The Church has always supported the established order, consecrating that which like itself can turn to the past for historical justification. Being fundamentally conservative it is inevitable that it should be attacked by the young and the radical. Yet the Church has outlived its rivals. Adapting itself to the eventual pressure of circumstance, it has maintained its basic assertions and lays hold of the same qualities in man today, which it appealed to five hundred years...
...associates in founding the Society of Jesus, is regarded by his church as the greatest missionary since the time of the Apostles. The church in Goa was made a shrine to his memory, but the Society of Jesus secured his right arm in 1614, placed it in the Jesuit mother church, Rome's Gesu...
...Jesuit from the U. S. debarked at Kingstown, Ireland, one day five years ago. On his luggage was the name Francis X. Talbot, S. J. Said his porter...
Father Talbot, an associate editor of America (Jesuit weekly), knew that the Talbots are an ancient and illustrious Irish family, with both Roman Catholic and Protestant branches. But he had not heard of Matt Talbot. He made inquiries. To his amazement he discovered that Matt Talbot, a laborer, dead less than a year, had already acquired a reputation for almost unearthly piety. His biography by Sir Joseph Aloysius Glynn had been translated into a dozen languages, sold 60,000 copies. Known first to Dublin, then to the Catholic world, Matt Talbot's life was increasingly publicized until last week...
...Belize had 13,000 inhabitants), the authorities stopped counting, looked for corpses no longer. It would have been impossible to bury them before they started spreading disease. Bodies already found were dumped into convict-dug trenches. The rest were thrown on pyres made of badly demolished buildings, including the Jesuit college where many unidentified victims must have been killed...