Word: jesuits
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...Culinary began life in 1946 as a storefront training school for World War II vets called the New Haven Restaurant Institute, with an enrollment of 16 and a staff of three. In 1972 it moved from Connecticut to its present home: a hulking, red brick former Jesuit seminary, St. Andrew's-on-the-Hudson. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the great theologian, is buried there. Stained- glass windows depicting scenes from the life of Christ adorn a student dining hall that was once the seminary's chapel. It also contains a fresco of the Last Supper, boarded up for safekeeping...
...proportionality issue has also sparked concern at the Vatican. La Civilta Cattolica, a Jesuit fortnightly in Rome that usually reflects Vatican thinking, has declared that the extent of damage wrought by both conventional and nuclear weaponry all but ends the prospect that any war could be deemed just. The Vatican's doctrinal overseer, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, took the same viewpoint in a radio interview after the bombing of Iraq began, but Pope John Paul II has not gone that...
Whatever willfulness the Pope feared seemed to dissipate with the virtual Vatican takeover in 1981. After John Paul appointed Father Paolo Dezza as acting superior general and Father Giuseppe Pittau as his deputy, "everyone expected a Jesuit revolt," remarks the Rev. John Long, rector of the Jesuits' Russian-studies institute in Rome. When this did not occur, says Long, "the Pope was surprised, and the Vatican Curia was shocked." On the other hand, the Jesuits did not much change their activism but instead adopted a more circumspect profile...
Under Arrupe's reign, the society had declared a duty to "show solidarity with all the oppressed and underprivileged everywhere." That commitment was reaffirmed at Kolvenbach's election and again two months ago at a special meeting in Spain of the heads of all 84 Jesuit provinces. Are the Jesuits still too political? "To be human is to be political," responds the order's assistant general, American John O'Callaghan. In any event, Jesuit activism no longer seems to worry John Paul so much, just so long as doctrines supportive of Marxism are eliminated from the society's arsenal...
...Today Jesuit energies are directed at a multitude of causes, from agitating against dictatorships in Africa to championing the cause of India's downtrodden untouchables. The prominence of Jesuits in social change has been underlined in Latin America, where just a year ago six activist Jesuit educators in El Salvador, together with two female helpers, were brutally assassinated. The Jesuit Refugee Service labors with less attention in 75 camps that harbor 1.5 million people. There are also numerous unheralded individual heroes, like Thomas Fitzpatrick, a missionary whose financial acumen helped get food and medicine to the right places during Ethiopia...