Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skeptical Sun printed the Government forecast and the morning of the mass was duly grey and drizzly. In a reviewing stand near the stadium sat Governor Ritchie, Mayor Howard W. Jackson, State, city and military officials. Archbishop Curley, Archbishop McNicholas of Cincinnati, seven bishops, many a Jesuit and Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, who as Apostolic Delegate to the U.S. brought the blessings of the Pope...
...cannot understand a person whose face or hands they cannot see, the parts of the Jewish ritual in which the rabbi's back is turned on the congregation have been eliminated. Catholic deaf-mutes in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore are in charge of a kindly, white-haired Jesuit named Rev. Michael A. Purtell. Father Purtell holds weekly services in the three cities, runs a newspaper called The Catholic Deaf-Mute, confesses, marries, baptizes, buries and supervises the social activities of a flock...
Down into a musty vault in the basement of Healy Building at Georgetown University in Washington went a little party of Jesuit officials one day last week. Rummaging around among half-forgotten bales and bundles they came across three small dusty wooden boxes which they lugged out to the light to open. Inside each box the Jesuits beheld 40 or 50 brown bits of bones. In the same basement of Healy Building were documents telling how in 1843 Pope Gregory XVI sent Georgetown University the holy bones of three Roman Catholic martyrs. Georgetown had tucked the boxes away without opening...
...zard-beaten rim, 21 mi. around, a lesser volcano raises its snout and a placid lake nestles. It is the unofficial domain, the scientific laboratory and the conditioning gymnasium of sturdy young Father Ber- nard Rosecrans Hubbard, S. J., "the Glacier Priest," head of the geology department of the Jesuit University of Santa Clara, Calif...
...Society of Jesus (at present Polish Wlodimir Ledochowski) is often called the "Black Pope" - because he wears a black habit and possesses powers which, in their limited way, resemble the Holy Father's. The General, like the head of any religious order, is elected by a Jesuit general congregation which rarely convenes for any other purpose. He has large spiritual and admin- istrative authority, even to setting aside (but not altering) the Constitutions written by St. Ignatius Loyola and associates and adopted in 1558. The General lives in Rome, is advised by assistants from various parts of the World...