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...Marching Through Georgia. The date was June 1893. The speaker, in the double identity that was the theme of his life, was 1) Thomas Ewing Sherman, eldest surviving son of General William Tecumseh Sherman, who had died but two years befofe; 2) the Rev. Thomas Ewing Sherman, a militant Jesuit, known to the lecture circuit as "Father Tom." The Jesuit began to speak in bullet sentences. "It was a Roman Catholic who planted the stars and stripes on the parapets at Vicksburg ... It was a Roman Catholic who led the most dashing charge...
...People in Love." How the son of General Sherman, a nondenominational Protestant who believed in "truth," came to be a Jesuit spellbinder is told in this fascinating biography by Joseph T. Durkin, himself a Jesuit and professor of American history at Georgetown University. Tom Sherman, born in 1856, was brought up in St. Louis and Washington amid his father's legend, but his Catholic mother, Ellen Ewing Sherman, probably had the greater influence. Tom went to Yale, studied law at St. Louis' Washington University, then abruptly informed his father that he was about to enter the Jesuit novitiate...
Noting that every one of the seven airmen chosen for the first U.S. effort to put a human being into space is "a believing Protestant," the Jesuit weekly, America, had some fun with the Roman Catholic faithful who take such statistics hard. "We predict," says America, that...
...Jesuit professor of theology of many years' standing, as is Father Gustave Weigel. May I politely dissociate myself and St. Mary's College from the "sustained brilliance" which Father Weigel sees in the confusion confounded that is Paul Tillich? AUGUSTINE KLAAS...
...excesses of her more diligent henchmen sickened even Elizabeth, the Queen who presided over the liquidation of Roman Catholicism in England. After about 180 executions, including the Jesuit Robert Southwell, Elizabeth said that if her council wanted to convert more Catholics to the Established Church, they should do so by the example of their lives. "For I," she cried, "will persecute no more than I have done...