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...document, the first detailed account of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, written by one of the survivors, the Rev. John A. Siemes, S.J., professor of modern philosophy at Tokyo's Catholic University. Father Siemes, who was born 39 years ago in Germany, sent his impressions to the magazine Jesuit Missions...
Died. Pietro Cardinal Boetto, 74, lone Jesuit in the College of Cardinals who last April sweetly reasoned into surrender* all Axis forces in & about his Archbishopric of Genoa; of a heart attack; in Genoa...
...skewered a refined rogues' gallery of Mayfair cads and bounders. Most critics found these novels much too funny to be taken seriously. But in 1930, Waugh astonished London's literati by becoming a Roman Catholic. He crowned his conversion with a most unfunny biography of the English Jesuit martyr, Edmund Campion, and with his most glacially sardonic novel, A Handful of Dust (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934), a satire on aimless decay and aimless viciousness in the patriciate. Later came Put Out More Flags, a hilariously mordant comedy about Britain's Wrorld War II bureaucrats and racketeers...
There are now, after a century of intense missionary effort, 350,000 Christians in Japan. There were 400,000 at the end of the 16th Century, when Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries were active in the islands. Before a savage persecution almost exterminated them, the great center of Japan's Christians was Nagasaki, where the second atomic bomb fell...
...Power," was "crowned with the halo of holiness because he fought for it with all his might." To the mighty organization he founded and led, the Society of Jesus, he bequeathed the rule: to be "all things to all men" in order to win all. Ignatius' disciples-the Jesuit missionaries, diplomats, scientists, economists, lawyers-became the most skilled, determined, and often the most feared religious brotherhood in history...