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...Manhattan this week, Father LaFarge, 72, a tall, stooping man with a face of benign granite, got a dinner in his honor. The occasion: the celebration of his 25 years as an editor of the Jesuit weekly America (including four years as editor-in-chief). Besides fellow priests and other Catholic dignitaries, the program listed such non-Catholics as the Rev. Samuel McCrea Cavert of the National Council of Churches, Chancellor Louis Finkelstein of Jewish Theological Seminary and President A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. They were all friends of a priest who has been...
...there was one thing that set Gerard apart from other English gentlemen of his time: he was a Jesuit priest. Under the fine doublet he wore a monastic hair shirt. Concealed in his saddlebags he carried a Mass kit and a Latin breviary. For 17 years, John Gerard, S.J., lived an exacting double life, ministering in secret to England's scattered and persecuted Roman Catholics. Last week a modern English Jesuit, Father Philip Caraman, published in the U.S. a new English translation, of Gerard's Latin autobiography (Autobiography of a Hunted Priest; Pellegrini & Cudahy, $3.50) - the plainly written...
Barred Doors. It was 1588, the year of the Spanish Armada, when 25-year-old Father John Gerard, just ordained in Rome, landed secretly in Norfolk,* England. The day after his arrival he barely escaped a trap set by local "priest hunters." In London he found his Jesuit superior and began his ministry, always traveling as a country gentleman of quality...
...imprisonment Father Gerard's Christian resignation was tempered by a Jesuit conviction that the Lord helps those who help themselves. His jailer had allowed him to visit a fellow prisoner in another part of the Tower...
...magazine had almost nothing to say of its own growth. "This issue," it said, "is not the story of Jesuit Missions . . . It is the necessarily thin sketch of men who have labored in the greatest undertaking on earth...