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Missionaries & Soldiers. Spanish conquistadors thought they would find there the fabulous El Dorado. Jesuit missionaries took the word of God as far upriver as Esmeralda. In 1800, Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt took an expedition farther than any scientist before him, and the world of botany was enriched with more than 6,000 species of new plants. Humboldt also discovered a link between the water systems of the Orinoco and the Amazon...
...these activities, Father Feeney was expelled from the Jesuit order. Archbishop Richard J. Cushing silenced him, and put St. Benedict's under interdict. By silencing is meant that Father Feeney is not allowed to preach or teach until the ban is lifted. With St. Benedict's under interdict, anyone who goes there is denied the sacraments of the Church and cannot receive the Holy Eucharist...
When Father Feeney began his Sunday sermons, he admits his idea was merely to dramatize his expulsion from the Jesuit order and his silencing. He was content, in his early lectures, to preach the dogma of "no salvation" and prove by the gospel that this was the basic dogma of the Church and the present hierarchy was ignoring it. He claims he did not expect popular support and did not intend to carry on the Sunday meetings for very long...
...eleven years as director of Manhattan's Xavier Labor School, Father Philip Carey has become a familiar figure to thousands of working men & women. He is a mild and scholarly Jesuit whose students are electricians, scrubwomen, plumbers, bus drivers, pipe fitters, and wire lathers. The lesson Father Carey teaches them: how to build strong and effective unions...
...Roman Catholic Church frowns on Catholics marrying Protestants, but such marriages are becoming more common. Some fresh findings by Jesuit Sociologist Father John L. Thomas of St. Louis University, as published in the Catholic World...