Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. The Rev. Laurence J. Kenny, 94, professor emeritus of history at St. Louis University, veteran of 57 years of teaching, and the oldest member of the Jesuit order in the U.S.; in St. Louis...
...Jesuit weekly, America, Robert A. Graham, S.J., added a blast of Catholic wrath at the Protestants' position. The World Order Conference's resolution, wrote Graham, is a stand "to puzzle and dishearten those who expected something more worthy of the cause of peace to which the delegates were dedicated ... In its silences and evasions, in its carefully phrased ambiguities and obvious inconsistencies, this would-be message of hope is a ghastly monument of abandonment. Its high words about the love of Christ and its vision of a world community willed by God sound fearfully hollow against its deep...
Long Life & Grace. Curley would have taken the funeral Mass too, with his own Jesuit son. Father Francis, as celebrant and the Archbishop of Boston in the sanctuary. Packing the pews and spilling into the streets: notables and Knights of Columbus, workingmen and housewives and ward politicians, down to 79-year-old William ("Up Up") Kelly, who through so many campaigns dashed into rallies shouting: "Up, up, everybody up for the Governor," and was never fazed until the night he dashed into a deaf-mutes' rally. But one thing Curley might not have liked. In keeping with diocesan practice...
...feast day commemorating the consecration of Roman Catholicism's mother church,*the slender Jesuit, delivering his maiden sermon to worshipers (mostly English-speaking) at Rome's Church of San Silvestro in Capite, had a text from St. Matthew ("Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my church") and a theme that father might well approve: the need for unity among Christians. The preacher: the Rev. Avery Dulles, S.J., 39, second son of Presbyterian John Foster Dulles...
Damns & Praise. There was much applause, although not all critics seemed sure of what they were clapping about. The Atlantic's Charles Rolo: "One of the funniest of the serious novels I have ever read." Although the Jesuit weekly America was sternly critical, Thomas Molnar cheered in the liberal Catholic weekly, Commonweal: "It has been said that this book has a high literary value; it has much more; a style, an individuality, a brilliance which may yet create a tradition in American letters." Said The New Yorker: "The special class of satire to which 'Lolita' belongs...