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Drinan, 59, a Jesuit priest for 27 years, obeyed the Pope's decision without question. "I am proud and honored to be a priest and a Jesuit," he said by way of explanation. Later that day he was greeted by his staff in Washington with a large banner that read: WE TOO ARE PROUD AND HONORED. Then he quoted the Jesuit motto: Ad majorem Dei gloriam (for the greater glory of God). Said Grossman: "The church is his life, his heart. He never once considered defiance...
There was confusion among Catholic leaders about the scope of the Pope's policy on priests and politics. Most of the doubt stemmed from the fact that the Pontiffs decision apparently was given orally to Pedro Arrupe, superior general of the Jesuit order; presumably only those two know exactly what John Paul II said. Jesuit headquarters in Rome communicated he decision to Drinan's superior, Edward M. O'Flaherty, Jesuit provincial in New England. O'Flaherty phoned the Congressman with this message: "Bob, I have some bad news for you. I received word rom the general...
Vatican prelates said that John Paul's order on Drinan does not apply to priests who have appointive positions in government. In Nicaragua, for example, seven priests hold high posts in the leftist revolutionary government. Among them are Jesuit Ernesto Cardenal, the Minister of Culture, and Maryknoll Priest Miguel D'Escoto, the Foreign Minister. In the U.S., Geno Baroni, 49, a diocesan priest, is Assistant Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
...convenient anecdotes he liked to relate ? being locked in a jail cell for five minutes, so he would know what happened to bad little boys, his fear of canings at his Jesuit preparatory school ? may not have shaped him totally. But surely he sensed, as he studied commercial art in his young manhood, that through art, it was possible to order things more agreeably than reality does...
...classic cosmological inquirer was Thomas Aquinas (1224-74), and the classic modern innovator is Canadian Jesuit Bernard J.F. Lonergan, whose "transcendental Thomism" in Insight (Philosophical Library; $10) justifies Aquinas to the modern world through a complex philosophy of human understanding. Chicago's Mortimer Adler has long been interested in Aquinas' thought. Though not formally religious he nonetheless pondered the God problem for most of his 75 years before writing his readable How to Think About...