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...Please Confirm." A Jesuit priest born of English parents in Le Havre, Roberts once headed an archdiocese -but gave it up. In 1937, while teaching in Liverpool, he was told by a reporter of-his appointment as Archbishop of Bombay. Tongue in cheek, he wired Rome to "please confirm" the appointment. Thirteen years later, having become convinced that India's principal see ought to be occupied by an Indian, he resigned in favor of Valerian Gracias, and settled down at the Farm Street church in London's Mayfair...
...seeks to integrate a nun's spiritual and educational training. One current debate within the conference involves this spiritual training; some religious superiors, like Mother Regina of the Sisters of Mercy, believe that the conference should take its norms from the zealous Better World Movement, founded by Italian Jesuit Riccardo Lombardi...
...Ekberg-Barker wedding was the first of its kind in the U.S., although similar experiments in ecumenical marriage ceremonies have taken place in the methodically unity-seeking Netherlands. Last April in Amsterdam, for example, a Dutch Jesuit and a Lutheran minister presided over the wedding of the minister's daughter to a Catholic boy in a Lutheran church. Dutch Catholic Bishop Willem Bekkers of 's-Hertogenbosch has twice allowed Reformed pastors to assist Catholic priests at mixed marriages; the couples promised only to bring up their children as "Christians...
...report on the articles was sent to Rome by the cautiously conservative Apostolic Internuncio, Archbishop Giuseppe Beltrami. In April the Jesuit General, Father Jean Baptiste Janssens, ordered the three Jesuit editors to leave the staff of De Nieuwe Linie because he could not agree with the magazine's editorial views. Other journals-Catholic, Protestant and secular-hurried to the defense of De Nieuwe Linie, and a number of Dutch Jesuits have openly protested Father Janssens' blunt handling of the case. Two of the Jesuits have ignored the order, still show up for work at the magazine every...
This month, for example, saw the publication of a Catholic textbook survey by scholars at Jesuit-run St. Louis University that listed a number of pejorative references to Jews (and Protestants)-and urged textbook writers to take greater care in discussing other faiths. The Lutheran World Federation's Commission on World Mission at a consultation in Denmark declared that anti-Semitism is "a demonic form of rebellion against the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and a rejection of Jesus the Jew, directed upon his people." And in Florence, European representatives of an international society for Christian-Jewish cooperation...