Word: jesuitism
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...best of the new shows is Nothing Sacred. It's intelligent, well acted, dramatic to a fault and, overall, pretty believable. A lot of its credibility is due to Father Bill Kane, a Jesuit priest and playwright who co-created the show and wrote the pilot, under the pseudonym Paul Leland. Andrew Greeley, the priest and best-selling novelist, thinks Kane's show is dead on. "In the pilot, where the woman is asking about an abortion, I would say something like that," he says. "That's the only effective way to deal with a woman who has a problem...
...Says William Donohue, the league's president: "It feeds the same appetite that says that the good Catholics are the ones smart enough not to go along with what's going on in Rome." But other Catholics defend the show. In his glowing review in the Catholic magazine America, Jesuit TV columnist James Martin writes, "If you think that any of these story lines are beyond the pale, just recall one of your parish council's agendas...
...practiced more than 20 times how they would react to a raid--by tossing grenades into the rooms the hostages occupied. Gumucio did not remember later how many minutes he waited for the attack to begin, but he said, "To me it was an eternity." Juan Julio Wicht, a Jesuit priest who had stayed on in the residence despite an offer of freedom, got the word that rescuers were coming in but dismissed it as black humor...
Ronick said a site for Jesuit schools is slated for the fall, and another for women's colleges is also a possibility...
...created to provide marrow for her sister would forever be treated like a second-class sibling--well cared for, perhaps, but not well loved. Do you prohibit the family from cloning the first daughter, accepting the fact that you may be condemning her to die? Richard McCormick, a Jesuit priest and professor of Christian ethics at the University of Notre Dame, answers such questions simply and honestly when he says, "I can't think of a morally acceptable reason to clone a human being...