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During the '50s, when there was no sex, the Jesuit retreat master would tell us, "Boys, sometimes you are going to find yourselves having what we call Impure Thoughts. And when that happens, boys, I want you to play basketball...
...example--she rambles for 30 minutes or so about whatever enters her wimpled head. On Wednesday's installment, she chats with guests, usually priests or laymen who share her conservative views; both segments include calls from viewers. In video terms, it's totally retro, but it works. Says Jesuit Father Thomas Reese of the Woodstock Theological Center in Washington: "She's the most successful Catholic TV evangelist since [Bishop] Fulton Sheen...
...cortege reached the graveyard, the women and children who had gathered to watch the gravediggers screamed and scattered, covering their mouths with brightly colored wraps as they ran away. A small group of foreigners and missionaries stayed behind. "I knew her well," sighed Brother Jacques Demestre of the Jesuit mission. "I don't know what the hospital is going to do without...
...remarkable man. An ex-U.S. Marine. A Vietnam veteran. A Jesuit-trained polemicist with what he proudly claimed was the first college degree in futurism. In his workaday job, he was paid by SRI International to peer into the future and tell corporate clients how to prepare for the 21st century...
Finally, there is Ward Littell, another FBI agent and Kemper's protege, a former Jesuit seminarian who works in the Chicago office tracking drab, hopeless domestic communists and hungering for a chance to put his massive idealism to better use. Kemper gives him the chance to do some sub rosa snooping for Bobby Kennedy, thereby condemning a number of people, including John F. Kennedy, to untimely death...