Word: jesuitism
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...arrived . 'Personally, I've never been confronted with the question of God,' says one ... politely indifferent atheist, Dr. Claude Levi-Strauss, professor of social anthropology at the College de France. 'I find it's perfectly possible to spend my life knowing that we will never explain the universe.' Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray points to ... the atheism of distraction, people who are just 'too damn busy' to worry about God at all." --April...
...YEARS AGO, I KNELT AND TOOK A RUBBING from the Vietnam Memorial wall in Washington--the name of Aloysius P. McGonigal. I knew the story of his death. McGonigal, a Jesuit priest, had found his way to Vietnam as a chaplain. During the Tet offensive in early 1968, he seized an M-16 and tried to storm the citadel in the old imperial capital of Hue. He died going up the hill, with a communist's bullet in his head...
...irreverent piece, based on the life of Jesus and including such spoofs as "Everything's Coming Up Moses", was performed in the Dunster Dining Hall. The audiences and the Crimson reviewer loved it, but some people on campus were outraged. One Jesuit priest wrote a letter to the Crimson comparing Durang's work to "a pig trampling in a sanctuary...
...perform the sacramental functions that we no longer have enough priests for?" Thus Jesuit Thomas Rausch, a theologian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, summarizes a sentiment he hears often from master's degree candidates in pastoral studies. "Most of them would be priests if they could," Rausch says. "But they cannot be priests--because they're married or because they're women...
Long ago, Jesuit father and finger-wagging mother understood truths that return to us now with what Emerson called "an alienated majesty." The cultural Big Bang of the '60s destroyed the authority of common sense. The homeliest folklore comes back now as a ghost of lost knowledge or else shows up in the polyesters of what liberals dismiss as the "religious right...