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...Russia was not invited. Nazi Germany, though invited, sent regrets. But delegates from 560 of the world's colleges, universities and learned societies, outnumbering by some 50 the turnout at Harvard's 1936 Tercentenary, turned up last week to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Jesuit Fordham University, second largest Roman Catholic university...
...threatened shortage of sisters in the U.S.-alarming news for Roman Catholics, if true-was revealed last week by the Rev. Edward F. Garesché, a Manhattan Jesuit. His surveys of 43 American sisterhoods (one of which has already appeared in the Catholic weekly America} shows that they now receive only about three-fourths of the candidates they need, and the number of postulants has slumped steadily since...
Catholics do such long-range planning, even when facing regimes as anti-religious as Russia's. Catholics in many a country, especially Jesuits, have readied themselves for this opportunity. Outstanding group: 50 Russian youths now studying for the priesthood in Shanghai under an English Jesuit, Father Henry Wilcock...
Bishop Sheil hopes the Ladies will become one of the most effective instruments of the Catholic Church's social gospel and social service in the U.S. Their order was started by a Jesuit in The Netherlands 20 years ago. After several false starts, they found their vocation of social work, distinguished themselves in the chocolate factories of The Hague, in the coal-mine country around Limburg, spread to other countries so slowly that even today there are only 120 fully professed Ladies throughout the world...
Most tony U. S. prep schools-such as Phillips Andover and Exeter, St. Paul's, Groton, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Kent-are Protestant, in spirit if not by direct church affiliation. Twenty-five years ago a Jesuit-educated young man named Nelson Hume decided that this was unfair to Roman Catholic boys. In the hills of western Connecticut, not far from Hotchkiss and Kent, he started Canterbury School, where well-to-do Catholic boys, without neglecting their religious training, might prepare for Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Williams with the same swank as their Protestant contemporaries. Last week this Roman Catholic Groton...