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...Ballard built a handsome 500-room hotel, surrounded by 585 landscaped acres. Until the Depression West Baden Springs Hotel prospered. With the decrease in business, Mr. Ballard made ready to sell out and retire. In casting about for a buyer two years ago, he met Rev. Hugo F. Sloctemyer, Jesuit president of Xavier University in Cincinnati. Would the Jesuits be interested in buying at a low price? No, said Father Sloctemyer. But learning that Mr. Ballard wished to have his hotel maintained intact, as a landmark, the Jesuit promised to help him try to dispose of it. Months passed...
...train a Jesuit under the militant principles laid down by Ignatius Loyola,* requires 15 years from the time the candidate leaves high school. West Baden College, primarily a graduate school of science and philosophy, will take Jesuit scholastics after they complete two years of ascetic theology and two of classics, before they embark upon three years of teaching, four of theology and one of ascetic theology. Rev. Aloysius Henry Rohde, assistant to the Jesuit provincial in Chicago, will be the school's temporary rector until a full one is appointed by that most formidable cleric, the Superior General...
...skeptical Sun printed the Government forecast and the morning of the mass was duly grey and drizzly. In a reviewing stand near the stadium sat Governor Ritchie, Mayor Howard W. Jackson, State, city and military officials. Archbishop Curley, Archbishop McNicholas of Cincinnati, seven bishops, many a Jesuit and Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, who as Apostolic Delegate to the U.S. brought the blessings of the Pope...
...Legion of Decency provides no official guide to good and bad films. But individual priests and bishops may blacklist as they please. Fortnight ago in thousands of Catholic churches, schools and colleges appeared a poster written by Rev. Daniel Aloysius Lord, Jesuit editor of The Queen's Work in St. Louis. A seasoned crusader, Father Lord was only lately revealed as the author of the famed Code which Presbyterian Will Hays and his producers adopted in 1930. The poster...
...cannot understand a person whose face or hands they cannot see, the parts of the Jewish ritual in which the rabbi's back is turned on the congregation have been eliminated. Catholic deaf-mutes in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore are in charge of a kindly, white-haired Jesuit named Rev. Michael A. Purtell. Father Purtell holds weekly services in the three cities, runs a newspaper called The Catholic Deaf-Mute, confesses, marries, baptizes, buries and supervises the social activities of a flock...