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...Jesuits swear an oath of obedience to the papacy but, throughout their 441-year history, their independent ways and elitist style have ruffled many Popes. John Paul II, no stranger to controversy, last week took a bold step to bridle the Society of Jesus. In a move interpreted as a warning to all religious orders, he suspended the normal workings of the Jesuit Constitutions, removed the acting leader of the organization and replaced him with two Italian Jesuits who enjoy the Vatican's confidence: Paolo Dezza, 79, and Joseph Pittau...
Pontiffs have intervened in the past by dictating the elections of Superiors General. In 1773 Pope Clement XIV even dissolved the society, a 41-year-long humiliation that some Jesuit intellectuals close to the Vatican are comparing with John Paul's treatment...
Aquarium Director George Ruggieri, a marine biologist and Jesuit priest, acknowledges that he and his colleagues will need a lot of help, heavenly and otherwise, to ensure Nyci's survival...
...Ebla add "nothing directly to biblical scholarship." But Pettinato, who first deciphered Eblaite, considers it an early Canaanite language closest to the northwestern Semitic languages of Hebrew and Ugaritic (the latter was discovered in 1929 at an earlier dig in Ugarit, Syria). One specialist in Ugaritic and Hebrew, American Jesuit Mitchell Dahood of Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute, goes further. He contends that Eblaite is more directly tied to Hebrew than to Ugaritic, although Ebla was closer to Ugarit in both geography and chronology. Against a considerable scholarly onslaught, Father Dahood has now become the leading proponent of ties...
Perhaps the greatest area of papal concern has been Jesuit activity in Latin America: one activist Jesuit has already been murdered in El Salvador and two have been killed in Guatemala for advocating greater social reform. Rumors have spread-so far, officially denied-that the Guatemalan authorities were set to banish the society from the country entirely. As John Paul made clear to Latin American bishops in Puebla, Mexico, two years ago, he approves of the church's defending the rights of the oppressed-but not by political means that have more in common with Marxism than Christianity. Many...