Word: jesuits
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...deal not only with the canon-law code but with basic constitutional problems of the church. Arguing that the church should incorporate more of today's democratic ideals in its structure, they urge a more distinct separation of executive, legislative and judicial functions. Under the present code, explained Jesuit Ladislas Orsy of Catholic University, there is a certain "imbalance" in church government: in practice, the offices of the Roman Curia both plan church regulations and enforce them. A wiser mode of government would be to have the law-creating function carried out by a separate, non-Curial agency-such...
...February, Pope Paul named France's progressive Archbishop Gabriel Garrone as second-in-command of the conservative Congregation of Seminaries, which keeps a close watch on the curriculums of the Roman schools. Last week another hopeful change took place: the venerable Greg got a new rector, French Canadian Jesuit Hervé Carrier, 45. Sociologist Carrier, who studied at Harvard and the Sorbonne, has a number of changes in mind for the university's regime, including the substitution of discussion groups for some lectures and the introduction of more field research...
Rome's seminary system began to take shape after the 16th century Council of Trent, which ordered every diocese to support and properly train its own priests. In 1552 St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, set up the Gregorian. Eventually, Catholic prelates from other countries created col leges in Rome so that their brightest seminarians could study under the Greg's good Jesuit teachers or with the Dominicans at the Angelicum (founded in 1580). Once back home, graduates soon found that a degree from Rome was the sort of clerical credential that led to quick promotion. Study...
Capital Ways. For the seminarian, the years in Rome constitute a unique opportunity to learn the subtle ways of Catholicism's capital and to study under some of the church's best minds: English Jesuit Frederick Copleston, a distinguished historian of philosophy, or German Redemptorist Bernard Haring, generally considered Catholicism's top moral theologian, who teaches at the Academia Alfonsiana (a branch of the Lateran). Otherwise, the training is not much better-and in some ways worse -than what they would receive back home. While U.S. seminaries have all but abandoned Latin for lectures and brought their...
Catholics & Medics. There are some exceptions to the pattern of bleakness. Roman Catholic institutions, such as Buenos Aires' Catholic University and Colombia's Jesuit-run Javeriana Pontifical University, generally offer better and more disciplined education. The continent's medical schools-notably those at São Paulo and at Mexico's National Autonomous University-are often topflight. Mexico's Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education is excellent...