Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slightly Premature. Italian theologians have not yet entered into space theology with the same gusto as the Germans. Jesuit Father Antonio Messineo contributing editor of the fortnightly Civilta Cattolica, favors a wait-and-see attitude. "The question of an eventual missionary activity among the inhabitants of other planets," he said, "hinges on two fundamental questions: 1) is there spiritual and physical human life on planets, and 2) are the inhabitants still in the state of original grace, or have they fallen into...
...London, Britain's dagger-eyed, razor-brained Poetess Edith (Facade) Sitwell, baptized an Anglican, decided at a ripe 67 on a change of church. Kneeling in London's (Jesuit) Immaculate Conception Church, Dame Edith was received into the Roman Catholic Church. Said Convert Sitwell humbly: "I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy...
...claimed that the audience had "understood neither his sermon in English nor the translation . . . The messenger of Christ . . . has given himself five days to convert Paris. He has four left to fix his microphones." Paris Presse said Billy was "as well organized as a businessman, as diplomatic as a Jesuit and apparently as pacific as a field of wheat." Only the Communist daily L'Humanité threw a solid brickbat: it felt sure that Billy was a tool of millionaires "employed in the crusade against socialism...
Twist in Moscow. One day, a fellow prisoner from Mongolia approached Father Leoni, told him he wanted to become a Catholic. After Leoni baptized him, the man turned out to be an informer. Jesuit Leoni was put on trial for carrying on religious propaganda and for other crimes-unspecified. Sentence: 25 years of forced labor at Vorkuta, the notorious slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle. Recalls Leoni: "At Vorkuta, it is winter twelve months of the year and summer the rest of the time. That I spent over seven years at Vorkuta without dying or going crazy...
...over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance." In due course the sinner appears, but the book's hero is on the scene from Page One, a Roman Catholic priest, about to travel the age-old road to martyrdom. Jesuit Father Janos is a good priest and a soldier of Christ in his heart, but he has had to fight few battles for the Christian faith in Roman Catholic Hungary. Then, as he sees Red agitators play on the needs and greeds of the peasantry, Father Janos wonders...