Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Writing in America, a Jesuit weekly, Film Critic Moira Walsh last week anathematized Hollywood's biblical epics as "disedifying and even antireligious," and called King of Kings "the culmination of a gigantic fraud perpetuated by the film industry on the moviegoing public." Noting that the film has been criticised by the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency as "theologically, historically and scripturally inaccurate," she adds: "Christ is there as a physical presence, but His spirit is absent . . . There is not the slightest possibility that anyone will derive from the film any meaningful insight into what Christ's life...
...guns (TIME, Aug. 18). Many of the million or more private shelters already prepared by individual citizens are stocked with weapons, and many of the diggers are prepared to use them, if necessary, on intruders who might try to join them. The Rev. L.C. McHugh, an editor of the Jesuit magazine America, recently stirred the coals of the argument by declaring that people who attempt to storm their neighbors' shelters are nothing more than "unjust aggressors" and should be "repelled with whatever means will effectively deter their assault." Last week Washington's Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun answered McHugh...
...Vatican. After dismissing the encyclical as ''a venture in triviality" in one issue, the magazine returned to the attack with the revelation that "conservative Catholic circles"-of which Editor Buckley, 35, is the razor-tongued wunder-kind-were muttering "Mater si, Magistra no." At that, the Jesuit weekly America jumped into the fray, proclaiming that the National Review "owes its Catholic readers and journalistic allies an apology." Unapologetically, Career Iconoclast Buckley brushed off the protest with one word: "Impudent...
Brazil's history is studded with examples of unspeakable cruelty to the dark-skinned natives who lived there uncounted centuries before Cabral. Early Portuguese colonizers enslaved natives by the thousands to work the sugar plantations, butchered whole tribes as a warning to others. Jesuit missionaries, serving as the Indians' first "protectors," instead became their oppressors by herding them into new settlements so that their lands could be more easily confiscated. Dreaded mame-luko* raiders-crossbreeds of Portuguese and native blood-disguised as priests, swept down on the missions to carry off their congregations, sometimes killing the Jesuit fathers...
...Member G. Joseph Minetti), the first shipment of 30 packing cases contained mostly press notices of the Senator's storm-tossed career. But the remaining material, with its dossiers on his bétes rouges, would undoubtedly be more incendiary-and possibly libelous. Said an official of the Jesuit university, who assumed that Mrs. McCarthy was screening the files before she packed them: "I'm sure she's using her head...