Word: jesuits
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...getting harder and harder for St. Joseph's College of Philadelphia to maintain its position as the most underrated basketball school in the U.S. Not that St. Joe's doesn't try. A small (enrollment: 1,719) Jesuit liberal arts college, it conducts no high-powered recruiting campaign, schedules no gut courses for athletes, and employs a lecturer in education as head coach. Considering also that all but one of the players on the St. Joe's varsity come from Pennsylvania, and that the average height of the squad is a mere...
This consensus, Reid adds, acknowledged the insights of thinkers who, before the council, were considered almost an underground minority-such as U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray, whose theories on church-state relations provided background for the religious-liberty statement. In the wake of this progressive victory has come what Dominican Edward Schillebeeckx of Nijmegen University calls "the triumph of anti-triumphal ism"-the rejection by the council of the world-hating, anathema-hurling Counter Reformation conviction that Catholicism alone possessed the truth of life. In contrast to past councils, which devoted much of their time consigning to eternal flames those...
...take nearly as long before the promise of Vatican II is realized. For one thing, many members of the still-powerful Roman Curia, and conservative prelates in such countries as Ireland, Spain and Italy, are likely to give only lip service to conciliar decrees. In some dioceses, says Jesuit Scholar John Mc-Kenzie, "there will be little reform until the death of the present incumbent." Many bishops, moreover, will be returning home to face the hostility or incomprehension of pastors and laymen who have not had the exalting experience of the four sessions in St. Peter's aula. Much...
...gradually introduced into U.S. churches, asked Catholics not to condemn but to "promote what is morally and artistically good" in movies. The ranks of Legion reviewers, previously dominated by a coterie of middle-aging Catholic college alumnae, were expanded to include knowledgeable lay and clerical film buffs, ranging from Jesuit professors of communications arts to English teachers, writers and admen...
...example of this sometimes disconcerting blend of past and present. Fichter was appointed to the Divinity School faculty this fall as Chauncy Stillman Professor of Catholic Studies. But unlike his predecessors, who lectured in medieval history, Fichter holds a Harvard Ph.D. in sociology. Although he is a Jesuit, he admits he "can't remember the last time I read Thomas Aquinas...