Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their biographers' convenience; also, college basketball cannot bear too much investigative reporting. Humor is strained more than truth is stretched when Las Vegas Coach Jerry Tarkanian jokes that he loves transfer students because "their cars are already paid for." At Boston College, Georgetown's conference companion and Jesuit colleague, a star player who flunked out of school last year was quietly re-enrolled in night classes and kept in the game. The stakes are considerable. For each member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's final four-Virginia, Kentucky, Houston and Georgetown-the payoff exceeded...
DIED. Karl Rahner, 80, Roman Catholic theologian who ranks as one of the century's most influential religious thinkers; of a heart attack; in Innsbruck, Austria. Born in Freiburg, Germany, Rahner entered the Jesuit order in 1922 and established himself as a brilliant modern interpreter of St. Thomas Aquinas. The author of nearly 4,000 publications, Rahner was an influential behind-the-scenes presence at the Second Vatican Council...
...liberal-minded Jesuit in Rome doubts that "Ratzinger can pull the rug out from under priests like Gutierrez and Sobrino. They probably will only say 'That's his opinion.' " But the Vatican is highly unlikely to leave it at that. Ratzinger, noting that liberation theology "steadily attracts more and more" priests and nuns, declares it to be a "fundamental danger for the faith." A strategy to confront the movement is now, he warns, "urgent...
...Justices might be able to head off the more drastic alternative: an amendment limiting the court's authority to interpret the Constitution. "With all the heat for a constitutional amendment, the court may say, 'Let's ease up and allow a moment of meditation,'" says Jesuit Father Robert Drinan, professor of law at Georgetown University and a former Democratic Congressman...
...example, the finding of sunspots, which were also seen by other 17th century observers. He wrote in a highly flamboyant style, scorning a scholarly Latin for vernacular Italian in order to reach a broader public. Among those who felt the bite of his pen were Jesuit astronomers. Some members of their order had originally supported Galileo, but by the time of his trial, they had died off and their hostile successors sharply attacked him as he faced the Inquisition...