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There is a spiritual bond of brotherhood between two religious groups in the U.S.-Roman Catholics and Jews. This is the contention of Father Thurston N. Davis, editor of the Jesuit weekly America. Catholics and Jews, "immersed in a pervading Protestant culture here in the U.S., have at least some inkling that we share, in divergent yet strangely cognate ways, a common inheritance from the centuries...
Spiritual Semites. Pope Pius XI once referred to Catholics as "spiritual Semites". "The stronger his faith and the more profound his appreciation of it," says Jesuit Davis, "the more 'Semitic' a Catholic realizes himself to be. For he comes to know how intimately his roots are laced with those of the Jew." The U.S. Protestant, on the other hand, does not share the same long-range perspective. "Everything that took place, religiously speaking, before Jamestown, the Mayflower, William Penn or Mary Baker Eddy, appears to him to be something which happened to 'foreigners...
...Jesuit Weigel's objective statements concerning the Roman Catholics' small contribution to U.S. scholarship [July 8] are to be highly commended. Could the reason for this be that the totalitarian nature of Roman Catholicism, with its thought-control mechanisms of censorship, blacklisting, "excommunication" threats, etc., creates an atmosphere in which the necessary spirit of truly free inquiry cannot exist...
...third of the population, the proportion of Catholics in American scholarship is nowhere near the overall figure." Why is it that, aside from theology, American Catholics have made such a comparatively small contribution to U.S. scholarship? In the current University of Notre Dame quarterly, The Review of Politics, Jesuit Weigel gives his answer: "The general Catholic community in America does not know what scholarship...
Much of the new political approach originates from a Jesuit priest close to the Vatican-grey, ascetic Father Riccardo Lombardi, who heads a new organization called Per un Mondo Migliore (For a Better World). To the "Better World" school in the Alban Hills near Rome, priests come from all over Latin America to hear fervent weeks of lecturing on the new policies. Moreover, Father Lombardi recently traveled to Mexico, gave a special course to 100 bishops, including Cardinal Luque. gathered from all Latin America. His student-priests can use the church organization as an ear to the ground that...