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...What we are witnessing," says a French Jesuit philosopher, Father Georges Morel, "is the decadence of a culture that was too rich and too critical." Father Morel finds, for example, that "the ideal of a total view of life is finished" among French intellectuals. "All experience can be interpreted from a thousand points, each equally valid," he says. "In literature, this is expressed in a greater interest in the material, the linguistic texture, than in the thought content." Literary Critic Maurice Nadeau finds, furthermore, that many young novelists are simply "popularizing or dramatizing the linguistic and sociological findings" of such...
Unofficial reports have Harvard seeded first followed by Providence, Connecticut and Boston University A major surprise is the absence of both Boston College and Holy Cross from the field. It was considered a sure thing that the winner of the traditional game between the two Jesuit schools would get a bid. The Crusaders won on the field Saturday but evidently lost at the meeting yesterday...
Mary Daly, 39, attacks Catholicism's built-in prejudice against women in a lively polemic called The Church and the Second Sex, (Harper & Row; $4.95). Unmarried, and the only female theology professor at Jesuit-run Boston College, she has three doctorates in religion and philosophy and is an avowed suffragette for female rights within the church. Her book accuses Christianity of contradicting its moral teachings by harboring "oppressive, misogynistic ideas" about women. The roots of such prejudice, contends Dr. Daly, lie in the Old Testament. Eve in Genesis is pictured as created from Adam...
...mortal sins, in this new morality, are not those of the flesh but those of society; more important than the evil man does to himself is the evil he does to his fellow man. "The Christian's role is to bear witness to God in man," says Jesuit Clinical Psychologist Carlo Weber. "Jesus Christ is the wedding of the divine and the human. Being a Christian for me means bearing witness to the wedding of divinity and humanity, to love God and man-to be involved, therefore, in human affairs...
Nonetheless, theologians also acknowledge that only God is the final judge of who can rightly be considered a Christian. Austrian Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner, for example, suggests that there is today "an invisible Christianity which does indeed possess the justification of sanctifying grace from God. A man belonging to this invisible Christianity may deny his Christianity or maintain that he does not know whether he is a Christian or not. Yet God may have chosen him in grace." Similarly, the late Protestant theologian Paul Tillich contrasted the "manifest church" of confessed believers with what he called the "latent church," whose...