Word: jesuits
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Like James Joyce or Sigmund Freud, the late Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit priest and paleontologist, has become an inescapable intellectual presence of the age. Until, and even after, his death in 1955, the Vatican forbade the publication of his nonscientific works, largely because he accepted evolution as the key to human history. In the eyes of Rome, Teilhard remains a near heretic. Last month the Holy Office issued a solemn warning for religious superiors "to guard souls, especially of the young, against the dangers contained in the works of Father Teilhard de Chardin and his followers...
Teilhard hoped to get his ideas published but, as a good Jesuit, obeyed when Rome said no. Nevertheless, manuscript copies of his works filtered into scholarly French circles. To the dismay of the Vatican, an international committee of intellectuals-including Biologist Sir Julian Huxley and Historian Arnold Toynbee -has posthumously sponsored publication of his major works. Teilhard, who was known in his lifetime as one of the discoverers of the Peking Man, thought of himself as "a pilgrim of the future," and his reputation continues to grow: a museum in Paris bears his name, more than 500 monographs...
...XXIII summoned the Second Vatican Council to meet next October, the Vatican announced that nonCatholics would be invited to send representatives as nonvoting delegates. The job of figuring out who should come and in what capacity was left largely to Augustin Cardinal Bea (TIME, July 6), the wise old Jesuit who heads the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. To avoid the diplomatic fiasco that marred the first Vatican Council,*Bea and his assistant, Dutch Msgr. Willebrands, spent long hours conferring with Protestant and Orthodox churchmen, made it clear that invitations would go only to those who wanted...
Debt to Protestants. The son of a carpenter, Bea was born in Baden, became a Jesuit because "I was much inclined to the scholarly life." He was made professor of scripture in 1917 at Valkenburg, the Jesuit house of studies in The Netherlands, and four years later became provincial of the Jesuits' Upper German Province. That job did not last long. One day, the Jesuit general asked Bea why he was not sending more of his promising students to Rome. When Bea replied, "Because we have better schools here." the general made him superior of the Jesuit house...
...Roman Catholic Church, the Pope has all but complete authority to appoint any priest to the rank of bishop,* and the Catholics in the diocese must accept the appointed bishop's ecclesiastical authority. Last week Jesuit Theologian John Walsh suggested that the upcoming Second Vatican Council might well think about letting laymen have a hand in choosing their spiritual chiefs. Speaking at Massachusetts' College of the Holy Cross to a group of lay Catholics, Father Walsh pointed out that the laity had some hand in electing bishops for the first 1,000 years of the church...