Word: jesuits
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...Jesuit Gleason meets this problem by suggesting that the agony of hellfire is not something created by God at all, but rather that it grows out of the damned soul's eternal tension between love of self and love of God-and is much like the pain of schizophrenia. "We know that in this life the schizophrenic personality suffers greatly. Such a man believes that he is himself and someone else, [and] riven by this conflict he suffers as though devoured by himself. Now it is possible that the soul in Hell could feel this inner division with regard...
This phenomenon was no planned experiment but part of the sociological revolution in U.S. interfaith relations that was described last fortnight by Jesuit Theologian Gustave A. Weigel (TIME, June 2). From the time it was founded 66 years ago until the end of World War II, St. Bernard's Benedictines and their Catholic students maintained an aloof hostility to the Baptists and Lutherans of nearby Cullman, Ala. (pop. 12,000). Occasionally, there was even violence; at one gown-town brawl a priest was bopped by a bottle. But after the war, two things happened: the G.I. Bill enabled more...
...said. "Here is a plant which turns out ministers of the Gospel. The two seem remote and unrelated. Actually, the issue of our time-perhaps the issue of all our human time-is which of the two outputs will prevail." Then Secretary Dulles, whose son Avery was ordained a Jesuit priest two years ago, watched 179 seminarians get their degrees. One of them: his daughter, Mrs. Lillias Hinshaw, 43, wife of Manhattan Public Relations Man Robert Hinshaw (a Quaker) and mother of four. Next fall Bachelor of Divinity Hinshaw may enter the Presbyterian ministry, which has been open to women...
...good feeling between Protestants and Roman Catholics in the U.S. was sighted last week by one of the nation's top Catholic theologians. The Rev. Gustave A. Weigel of Maryland's Jesuit Woodstock College. School of Sacred Theology, told the 48th annual convention of the Catholic Press Association in Richmond that "the Catholic is now interested in the Protestant as a Protestant and the Protestant is even more interested in the Catholic as a Catholic...
...their part. Catholics have a "growing sense of security" and are "no longer afraid of the American Protestant." Catholics have also "expanded intellectually," said Jesuit Weigel, "even though pure intellectualism is not yet a popular Catholic vocation. Ancient bogies and the ghosts of former times have been destroyed. The Catholic is now perfectly ready to associate with the Protestant with affection and trust...