Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Magna Carta. Catholic Bible experts began catching up with the rest of the scholarly world after 1943, when Pius XII issued his encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu. Written largely by German Jesuit Augustin Bea, now the cardinal in charge of Rome's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, the encyclical encouraged Catholics to study the historical background of Scripture, and to use modern critical techniques developed by Protestant and Jewish scholars. Bible scholars hailed the encyclical as their Magna Carta; conservative theologians thought it an open invitation to a modernist revival...
Boston College is the folk school of the Boston Irish-a Jesuit beacon that in the past century lit the lowly immigrant's way from the first landfall to the last hurrah. Now the tiny city school that got its charter in 1863 counts 11,000 students, most of them on a sweeping 200-acre campus in suburban Chestnut Hill. With six graduate and professional schools, coed B.C. is one of the nation's biggest and best Catholic universities. Boston College watered the roots that grew the first Irish-Catholic U.S. President, and last week Himself...
...lure professors, Walsh unabashedly raids other schools, offering salaries as high as $16,000, plus a climate of intimate scholarship and access to the riches of nearby M.I.T. and Harvard. Clerical interference is apparently no B.C. problem. All of its controlling trustees are Jesuits; the faculty has 143 of them, the world's biggest Jesuit teaching community. But the total faculty of 750 is full of non-Catholics, and free expression is the B.C. fashion. Washington's Catholic University recently banned a proposed speech by Germany's liberal Theologian Hans Kiing; Boston College warmly welcomed him, having...
...attorney: "The new administration should have been given a chance to confer with the various groups interested in change." A. G. Gaston, a Negro businessman, added: "I regret the absence of continued communication between white and Negro leadership in our city." Said the Rev. Albert S. Foley, a white Jesuit priest who is chairman of Alabama's Advisory Committee of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission: "These demonstrations are poorly timed and misdirected." Perhaps the worst part was that the fuss made Bull Connor seem indispensable to many Birmingham residents, just at a time when a court is trying...
...symposium on evolution and Christian theology during the Darwin centennial in 1959-while similar symposiums were held at three other Catholic universities (Fordham, Duquesne, and Chicago's Loyola). ¶ Sociologist Father Raymond Plotvin was forced to withdraw from a major study of family planning in cooperation with Jesuit Georgetown University. Reason: McDonald refused to approve Plotvin's request for a Ford Foundation grant to study "family size preference of American Catholic college girls" because the subject was "too controversial...