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...Wolfgang: "There ought to be a way to limit pornography to those who want it." Still, Wolfgang, a member of the obscenity and pornography commission, opposes all obscenity laws, including those limiting public display of erotica. Others think such laws are reasonable. Father Morton Hill, a New York City Jesuit and veteran porn fighter, wants newsstands and drugstores to stop carrying porn. "There should be better control over what children can see or hear, and we should keep porn out of public view," he says. Adds University of California Psychologist Jay Mann, who generally sees no harm in porn: "Privacy...
Martin, a former Jesuit professor and religion editor of The National Review, also takes a dim view of any deviation from orthodox Catholicism. The French theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who tried to rationalize evolution and scientific discovery with Christianity, is attacked for contributing in a roundabout way to the possession of two priests because of his potentially heretical views. All of the hero figures in the book--the exorcists--are not intellectuals; they are middle-aged plodders from rural backgrounds, deeply rooted in god, country and Church...
...Anthony Burgess and Muriel Spark. Curiously for the author of Julian and a man who considers Christianity "the single greatest disaster that has ever happened to the West," Vidal seems to delight in the company of clerics. One of the people he dines with in Rome is American Jesuit John Navone, a theologian at the Pontifical Gregorian University. When Navone once brought a group of visiting Jesuits to Vidal's apartment, Vidal greeted them with the question "Out for a night in Transylvania...
...then he has been flamboyantly establishing a new base. He has bought a six-story building for his downtown headquarters, though the city has refused him permission to put his name atop it in lights 85 ft. long. And he signed up Anti-Communist Dan Lyons, who left the Jesuit priesthood to get married (TIME, Sept. 29), to edit the weekly newspaper, which again is lavishing coverage on such events as Hargis' "hero's welcome" in South Korea...
...school. Her sisters would ask our priests for the old cotton cassocks "they were going to throw away." We thought they would be bandages or dust cloths, and were surprised to find them meticulously repaired and worn as a basic garment beneath their saris. The collar of the old Jesuit cassock is clearly visible in your cover picture of Mother Teresa...