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Died. Jean Cardinal Daniélou, 69, eminent French Jesuit theologian; of a heart attack; in Paris. Son of a radical Socialist Cabinet minister, Daniélou entered the Society of Jesus in 1929 and became known as a dynamic liberal Catholic intellectual. As a peritus, or theological adviser, to Vatican Council II in the mid-1960s, he was considered a moderate voice in church affairs; by decade's end he was a cardinal and an outspoken champion of papal authority. He came to deplore the "false concept of liberty" that he said resulted from a misconception...
When Nixon Aide John McLaughlin became a Jesuit in 1947, that traditional vow was strictly interpreted. Moreover, Jesuits lived in community in their own houses, wore only black, and worked mostly in missionary or teaching assignments. In recent years all that has been changing. Some members of the Society of Jesus rent their own apartments, wear business suits or blue jeans, and work at various professions, including politics...
...Rather, selling kisses for 50 cents; and Martha Mitchell, who offered to call anyone, anywhere, about anything-for $5. At least one Congressman had his consciousness raised. The Rev. Robert Drinan bought a T shirt reading "Trust in God. She will provide." Said the jolly Jesuit: "Aren't these for girls...
There may not be many; fewer than 100 of the seminary's 650 prestrike students are expected to drift back. Nearly 400 of the rest signed up last week for a "Concordia Seminary in Exile" that began holding classes at St. Louis University (a Jesuit school) and the United Church of Christ's Eden Theological Seminary. Both host schools will certify the rebel seminarians' degrees, as will Chicago's Lutheran School of Theology, the largest seminary of a sister denomination, the more liberal Lutheran Church in America...
...putative monarchs include a Jesuit teacher-priest, a publisher, a salesman for Lockheed Aircraft and the nephew of Terence O'Neill, the former Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. Most are businessmen, bankers or gentlemen farmers, living, if not in castles in Spain, on the palpable hope of restoration as well as on decent incomes. Not one appears to be a dimwit, a dinosaur or a debauchee or even a gossip-column item. Perhaps the one who conies closest to being a gay blade is Prince Louis-Ferdinand, 66, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II and claimant to the empire...