Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight to get better wages fc Filipino workers, Jesuit Father Walter I Hogan, Manila's "labor priest," has mad himself some formidable enemies (TIMI March 12, 1951). But he has had the COE consistent support of Papal Nuncio Egidi Vagnozzi, a brisk, 46-year-old Italia whose plain speaking long ago got him th nickname of "II Americano" in Vatica circles. Since his arrival 2½-years ago Archbishop Vagnozzi has given heavy be hind-the-scenes support to the efforts of Roman Catholics like Philadelphian He gan to give Filipinos a fresh deal before the Communists...
Alighiero Tondi always wanted to believe in something-if possible, rationally. He entered the Jesuit order in Rome 16 years ago with this in mind. "I was confident," he recalled, "that scientific proofs of Catholic truth existed." In 16 years as a Jesuit, he made his mark. His lectures to young people at Gregorian University's institute for laymen-on "religious science"-were immensely successful. Superiors admitted that Father Tondi could chase away spiritual doubts among Rome's younger generation "as no one else could...
Early last week, just a month after a brilliant lecture on why he became a Jesuit, Father Tondi slipped out of his room at Gregorian University. "I'm not coming back," he telephoned the rector next morning. "Don't look for me." Four days later, a front-page spread in Rome's party-lining daily Il Paese announced that Alighiero Tondi had joined the Communist Party...
When fellow Jesuits visited him to remonstrate, ex-Jesuit Tondi, wearing a pair of gaily colored pajamas, threw them out. (Wrote Tondi in Il Paese: "You should know that there is no real friendship among Jesuits...
After his ordination, he transferred to the Jesuit order, even though it meant starting over again as a novice. In 1911 his superiors sent him to take charge of some rundown Jesuit mission parishes in southern Maryland, with mixed Negro and white congregations. The 15 years he spent there introduced him to a major interest-helping the American Negro in his fight for equality. "I became aware," he recalls, "of the harmful effects of slavery's psychological heritage." The articles he wrote from his experiences impressed his superiors so much that he was eventually transferred to the staff...