Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. The Rev. Gustave Weigel, 57, Jesuit theologian at Maryland's Woodstock College, urbane and quick-witted author (Faith and Understanding in America), an editor of the Jesuit weekly America, and devoted ecumenicist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. "Gloomy Gus" Weigel, as his friends called him for his visage, not his personality, played a major role in the 1960 Kennedy campaign with a speech stating that the church would not interfere with a Catholic president, acted as informal press secretary at the Vatican's Ecumenical Council, was widely hailed for his understanding of other religions, winning...
...successfully these revisions will reflect the tone expected by the majority is problematical. Barring a last-minute change of heart by Pope Paul, the revisions will still be supervised by Curia cardinals. A case in point is the chapter favoring religious liberty, which was composed in part by U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray. In response to considerable pressure from Italian and Spanish bishops, Pope Paul intends to have it revised by the Theological Commission and its president, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, who is dead set against Murray's ideas on liberty of conscience...
Died. The Rev. John LaFarge, 83 staunch Roman Catholic fighter against racial injustice, former editor in chief (1944-48) and longtime guiding light of the Jesuit weekly America, member of a distinguished New England family with a strong sense of social responsibility (Oliver La Farge, who championed the cause of the Indian, was his nephew); in Manhattan. Father La Farge became interested in the problems of the Negro when assigned in 1911 to rural Maryland, from then on waged a relentless campaign for racial equality in books and articles, stumped for a federal FEPC, helped found the 60 Catholic Interracial...
...20th century church. One, which faces bitter opposition from Italian and Spanish conservatives at the council, declares that every man has the right to worship as his conscience dictates, and that all men, as well as the state, are duty-bound to respect this right. Says U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray: "This hits right at the heart of the old Roman thesis that freedom of religion is only tolerated when Catholics are in the minority, and disappears when Catholics are in the majority...
...idiom of contemporary Manhattan and ancillary Fairfield County. Smith has a great marble mausoleum under construction, air-conditioned, flood-and earthquake-proof. Smith moodily lurks there from time to time. The ghosts are of the contemporary autobiographical kind-Smith's own spectral guilty memories acquired in a posh Jesuit prep school. The furies are represented by the Press. Evil is represented by the abandoned power-bitch wife whose cold heart can never be touched by the grace of love, but there are others to offer it in all its forms...