Word: jesuits
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...would have particularly welcomed the news from Rome died in New York City last week. Victim of a heart attack was the Rev. John Courtney Murray, 62, the Jesuit theologian whose influence and immense prestige extended far beyond the boundaries of his faith and order. Secular leaders met under his guidance. Protestants welcomed him to their councils; the Episcopal Committee on Theological Freedom and Social Responsibilities listed him as one of its advisers. Internation al Catholicism recognized his intellectual leadership at the Second Vatican Council, despite efforts of the ultra-conservative Vatican Curia to suppress his liberal views on religious...
...dealings with the world, and his learned debating on behalf of incorporating church-state separation into Catholic polity became so lively in the pages of the American Ecclesiastical Review that his order eventually silenced him with instructions to clear all his future writing on church-state matters with Jesuit headquarters in Rome...
Exchange of Ideas. In addition to editing the Jesuit quarterly Theologica Studies for 26 years and writing a show er of articles on dozens of facets of life, Father Murray published five books. Most notable: We Hold Thesi Truths, which expounds the idea that the American structure of church-state relations is more congenial to Roman Catholic thinking on the subject than any other such structure in history; and The Problem of God, which contrasts the Old Testament question "Is God our God?" and the medieval question "What is God like?" with modern man's "new will actively...
This, in fact, was the assignment given him in the spring of 1966 with his appointment as director of the John LaFarge Institute. Founded in 1964 by the editors of the Jesuit weekly, America, the institute brings together leaders from many sectors of society and the full spectrum of religious belief for off-the-record discussions of al most any and all subjects-religious liberty, racial discrimination, censorship, abortion, the population explosion, business and political ethics, religion and the arts, war and the anti-war movement...
...keeping with the educational ecumenism of the day, more and more U.S. divinity schools are abandoning their cloistered solitude for the richer dialogue available at large universities. Latest illustrations of the trend: the faculty of Woodstock College, a Jesuit seminary in Maryland, voiced the wish to affiliate with the Yale University Divinity School and move to New Haven, subject to approval by Rome; and the Colgate Rochester Divinity School, an interdenominational institution, decided to join hands with the University of Rochester. In both cases, a student-faculty exchange would occur; in each, the smaller school would retain its separate identity...