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...What's he like? He's personable and sociable, and loves to banter, even with opposition legislators. Tsang is a devout Roman Catholic?he was educated at a Jesuit school?and worships daily at St. Joseph's Church near his office. Favorite item of clothing: colorful bow ties...
Still, few insiders expect that his latest health problems make it any more likely that the Pope will step down. "If John Paul were going to resign, it would have already happened," says Rome-based Jesuit Father Keith Pecklers. "He identifies with the mystery of Christ's suffering."--By Jeff Israely
...Dziwisz also leads the group within the Vatican that is most opposed to a papal resignation because of ill health. Despite renewed speculation about that possibility last week, few insiders consider it likely. "If John Paul was going to resign, it would have already happened," says longtime Rome-based Jesuit priest Keith Pecklers. "He identifies with the mystery of Christ's suffering." Keeping the world updated last week on the Pope's latest health scare was Joaquín Navarro-Valls. A former psychiatrist and journalist, the 68-year-old Spaniard has been the papal spokesman since...
Weston owns two buildings on Phillips Place—which runs between Brattle and Garden Streets—as well as several Jesuit houses throughout Cambridge and an apartment for lay students on Harvard Street toward Central Square, according to Stachniewicz. It rents classroom space from its next-door neighbor, the Episcopal Divinity School. Stachniewicz said talks with BC are still at such a preliminary stage that Weston has not decided what it will do with its Cambridge holdings if a merger deal is in fact reached...
...oldest Jesuit university in the country, and Dunn said that a merger with Weston would “help to make Boston College the center of Catholic intellectual thought in the United States...