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Close to the Saints. Nixon's second college visit was to the Roman Catholic University of San Francisco. Some 30 Jesuit priests and 1,500 students greeted him, heard him praise the school's required course on Communist thought and tactics. In turn, San Francisco's president, the Rev. John F. X. Connolly, praised Nixon's "morality, spiritual values and truth," concluded: "I wish God's blessings on him in all his endeavors...
...sentence-for Bishop Ignatius Kung Ping-mei of Soochow. Slender, smiling Kung Ping-mei, 59, has all the qualifications to make himself hated by the Reds. Born to a wealthy Roman Catholic family in a small town near Shanghai, he studied for the priesthood in Shanghai's French Jesuit College at Zikawei, where he learned to speak perfect French and imperfect English and to understand Westerners. Father Kung specialized in education, showed notable skill as director of Shanghai's Song Hong School and later St. Louis College. In 1949, as the Communists took power, he was made Bishop...
During the five-week course just concluded at St. Peter's College in Jersey City, all the rough-and-tumble of tumultuous Jersey politics was aired in the classroom. Under the benign prodding of St. Peter's chairman of political science, a Jesuit priest named Francis P. Canavan, local politicians blabbed trade secrets with such candor that the course drew more than a hundred students from all walks of life, regularly made Jersey headlines...
...doctrine, ten have been published defending universal religious freedom." Many of these theologians deal with the problem of giving rights to error by making a distinction between protecting error and the moral obligation to grant freedom of conscience-whether conscience is in error or not. Dr. Carillo quotes German Jesuit Theologian Max Pribilla: "Religious liberty, when it is understood correctly, does not mean the protection of error, but the protection of the erring men who should not be prevented from serving God according to their conscience. Even the erring conscience imposes obligations and acquires corresponding rights. The protection accorded...
...Roman Catholic Church is losing ground fast among its 168 million members in Latin America-close to one-third of all the Catholics in the world. This is the considered opinion of a Belgian Jesuit sociologist who has spent the last three years in Chile, is now director of the School of Sociology of Chile's Catholic Pontifical University. The church's difficulties, says the Rev. Roger E. Vekemans in the weekly Ave Maria, began in the 19th century after the Latin American countries achieved independence from Spain and Portugal and thus were thrown open to such influences...