Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment an indiscreet remark or a chance encounter . . . might betray us," writes Vyvyan, "was a sword of Damocles constantly hanging over our heads." In time, to make security even more certain, the boys were separated, Cyril to stay on in Germany, Vyvyan to be sent to a Jesuit school in Monaco...
...Winning? In Hiroshima, Japan, meanwhile, Christianity made another comment on the Bomb-by dedi cating the handsome new Church of Our Lady of the Assumption on the site where the old one stood before it was destroyed nine years ago by the first ABomb. Jesuit Father Hugo Lassalle (who himself survived the bombing) built this World Peace Memorial Church with contributions from Japanese converts plus a $100,000 anonymous contribution from the U.S. In this new church, standing at the birthplace of the atomic age. Christians of all denominations might find a symbol. Various Christian assemblies last week gave...
Fortunately not all Roman Catholics are like Cardinal Stritch. I suspect there are some dissenters even among the clergy of his own archdiocese. We have a good friend, a Jesuit priest, with whom we have limited ecumenical relations on the rice-roots level. We even pray together on occasion, and pray God's blessing on each other's work. We believe this is what our common Lord desires of His catholic church...
...Roman Catholic Church in Indo-China is one of the oldest and most successful examples of Christian outreach in the Far East. Missionaries were established in Indo-China long before the French colonizers arrived. Among the most successful of these was 25-year-old Jesuit Alexandre de Rhodes of Avignon. A brilliant linguist, within six months Father de Rhodes began transforming the character writing of Vietnamese into a Romanized script. He rapidly built up a native clergy, which kept the church strong during periods of persecution under unfriendly monarchs...
GIUSEPPE MARIA PIGNATELLI (1737-1811) was born a Spanish nobleman and became a Jesuit over family opposition. At the time the Jesuits were being suppressed in nearly every country; as Provincial in Italy he did much to restore the order's power and prestige...