Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charge of fraud raised by the Jesuit-run Central American University in San Salvador [June 14] is a thinly veiled attempt by the left to take away a fairly won victory. Disappointed by the rejection of their twisted Marxist liberation theology, the religious left has now resorted to charges of fraud in an election in which the people turned out en masse to say no to the violent minority. El Salvador's was a truly democratic election...
...leftist guerrillas who were alleged to be receiving aid from Nicaragua and Cuba. Noting the high turnout, President Reagan declared: "Now they really showed that there is a real desire for democracy there." But last week the election results came under attack. An article based on research at the Jesuit-run Central American University in San Salvador suggested that the vote totals had been hyped outrageously. At the same time, the newly elected, rightist-dominated constituent assembly's suspension of a significant part of the U.S.-backed land reform program put the Reagan Administration's request for increased...
...disputes galvanized the new Catholic Conference. In 1971 the bishops urged an end to U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Though that was "terrible moral tardiness" to Radical Jesuit Dan Berrigan, taking on the White House was a wrenching change for the hierarchy. Then in 1973 the bishops were rocked by the sweeping U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in most cases. The bishops soon abandoned above-the-fray moral preachments and plunged into down-in-the-trenches political action. They have now thrown their full weight behind a specific proposal that is due for a vote soon, Senator Orrin Hatch...
When John Paul followed that action by calling the international Jesuit leadership to Rome for further instructions, the grumbles and concern mounted. Some of the North and South Americans arrived for the meeting in T shirts and blue jeans, a minor act of sartorial insouciance, given John Paul's insistence on traditional dress (they wore clerical garb when they met the Pontiff). Many of the leaders were in a fighting mood, armed with massive documentation on the good works they were accomplishing...
Except for one session in Rome, the meeting took place at the Villa Cavalletti amid the vineyards of the Frascati region twelve miles outside Rome. The bucolic setting may have helped. In any event, the anticipated confrontations never occurred. Dezza, 80, won more esteem from the Jesuit leaders than had been expected. But his very strength as a master of the Vatican bureaucracy also meant, said one participant, that his "mindset was such that it would be useless to debate." The assembled priests quietly decided that he was unable to comprehend how Jesuits out in the provinces must work...