Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tommy Thompson, whose workfare program Weakland had faulted, to snap that the Archbishop should "read his Bible instead of playing piano in New York"). Last year Weakland underwent treatment for prostate cancer. But he is back in combative form, penning a preview of his ad limina thoughts for the Jesuit magazine America. He feels that U.S. Catholicism, 60 million members strong, is in danger of a split. At one extreme, he discerns "restless innovators" whose liberal "sloganeering" he finds ineffective; at the other "Papal maximalists" who have prospered under the current papacy but "sensing victory, [have become] even more judgmental...
...times, and always with the same sense of genuine astonishment. Until that moment he had never thought of himself as a particularly religious man. Born in a middle-class home in Akron, Ohio, and raised in Evanston, he stood out as a gifted artist and athlete. He received Jesuit training at Loyola Academy before attending Notre Dame, where he studied English and philosophy and received a bachelor's degree, then two years later a master's in counseling and guidance...
...projects, he was snubbed. Some gangsters threw rocks at him. On his second day, the gang voted in council whether Tomes should be killed, but decided that his intentions were only positive and that he should be protected rather than removed. The gangsters also accepted a couple of Jesuit volunteers, who were along to help Tomes...
...Fidel and Religion, became a national best seller. Here was the apostle of Marxism expounding on his Catholic upbringing and attitudes toward religion. He recalled his devout mother and his rigorous parochial education. He had been baptized and was taught biblical history and Catholic catechism. At his upper-class Jesuit high school he absorbed the determination and discipline of these militant teachers who prophesied in his yearbook that he would make a brilliant name for himself...
From Miles's own biography, you would think that he ought to be a very good judge of the nature of doubt. After all, he is a former Jesuit who went on the record this September professing the need for more agnosticism in religion. As the Orlando Sentinel Tribune reports it, Miles was asked over and over on his book tour for God: A Biography what he thought personally about God. At the time, he was not prepared to answer, so he would put off patrons with talk about the God of the scriptures, the God of the Jewish Bible...