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Married. Edward J. Sponga, 50, No. 1 Jesuit priest of Maryland Province; and Mary Ellen Barrett, 33, a divorced nurse (see RELIGION...
...estimated at $7,000,000.) Young Pierre was driven to school by a chauffeur, as a boy was given private boxing lessons "because I was quite a puny child." Trudeau's father died when he was 14, and the loss saddened him for years. He went to a Jesuit college called Jean-de-Brebeuf, ran with a crowd known as Les Snobs, and invariably led his classes in academic honors...
Henri de Lubac, L.H.D., French Jesuit theologian and peritus (expert) at the Second Vatican Council...
...Church in the U.S. has yet produced. And there is nothing very radical about their background. They grew up in Syracuse, the sons of a tough Irish railroad worker; their mother a gentle devout Catholic, was known as a soft touch for every passing hobo. Daniel, who entered the Jesuit order straight out of high school, is a poet and chaplain at Cornell University he favors turtleneck sweaters and admits to being a "hippie priest." Philip, an infantryman during World War II, was ordained in 1955 in the Josephite order, which principally serves Negro parishes. Also a writer...
Into the Community. Instead of automatically baptizing children in infancy, Jesuit Theologian Joseph Powers of California's Alma College would postpone the ceremony until the age of ten or twelve. "The whole meaning of baptism," he says, "is not to make a Christian out of a child but to incorporate the individual, at some time in life, into the community of the church." Thus he believes it makes more sense for a child raised in a Christian home to undergo baptism at an age when he can really start believing in the church. This procedure would effectively answer...