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...Jesuit Joseph Fessio, publisher of Ignatius Press and Catholic World Report, remarks that fellow conservatives have worried for years about "revisionist pressure groups operating on the new English translation for their own ends." When the Vatican first gave permission in 1963, parishes clamored for rituals in English. Its pedestrian style aside, the current English Mass was prepared before liturgists began to champion gender-inclusive language...
When Father Matteo Ricci and his fellow Jesuit missionaries visited Beijing in 1601, they brought two clocks of Italian design as gifts for the Emperor Wan Li. The larger of the two astounded his courtiers, Ricci later wrote, because it was "a work the like of which had never been seen, nor heard in Chinese history...
...most notably, Graham Greene -- and in discreet gifts to agencies of the Roman Catholic Church, which he had entered in 1930. In the end, though, he felt abandoned even by Catholicism. Pained by the populist liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council, Waugh discreetly asked a clerical friend, the Jesuit writer Martin D'Arcy, whether he might be excused from attending Sunday Mass. The answer was a firm but sympathetic...
...cycle's first volume was The Ice-Shirt, a brooding narration of the settling of Greenland and Vinland. Fathers and Crows has six glossaries, endless footnotes, maps and epigraphs, a 47-page biography of St. Ignatius Loyola and nearly 1,000 pages. It relates Jesuit efforts to convert Huron and Iroquois Indians in the early 17th century, but the author prepares his narration so thoroughly that major characters are not introduced before the book's tardy midpoint...
Buchanan glared like a Jesuit prefect of discipline and stabbed the air. His rendition was family values in the bully's mode -- an appeal to visceral prejudices, not to American ideals. Barbara Bush and the tableau of Bush children and grandchildren transmitted a softer version, a kind of Pepperidge Farm, white-bread appeal in handsome plenty...