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...Weston Jesuit School of Theology, which has trained priests in Harvard’s shadow for more than eight decades, may leave its longtime home off Garden Street as part of a proposed merger with Boston College...
Joining Weston and BC would create “a Jesuit presence unrivaled anywhere in the world,” according to BC spokesman Jack Dunn...
Merger plans are still in a preliminary stage, and officials from both schools said they do not expect to reach an agreement for at least six months. Any deal would require the approval of the Rome-based Society of Jesus—the official name of the Jesuit order. Both schools’ boards have given the go-ahead for talks to begin...
...description is of Goa on May 6, 1542, the day the missionary St. Francis Xavier first set foot on the Indian subcontinent. Four hundred and sixty-two years later, you can still find some in the backpacker idyll to whom Coleridge's words apply. But the suggestion that the Jesuit adventurer had little lasting influence is at odds with events this month in the former Portuguese colony. For 43 days until Jan. 2, a continuous procession of 2 million people will shuffle past Xavier's body?which is believed by the faithful to be miraculously uncorrupted since it was moved...
Strict but colorful nuns and life-changing Jesuit priests also populate the former altar boy's fond rendering of the tight-knit Irish Catholic world of his childhood, where John F. Kennedy was king. It was good preparation for an early job working for New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan--Russert's intellectual father--who assured him that having hauled garbage during the summer, Russert would always have the advantage in a roomful of eggheads...