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...number of other Catholic schools fall into the mass-production or good-small categories. Jesuits run the University of Detroit (10,957 students) and three Loyola Universities, named for the order's founder, in Chicago, Los Angeles and New Orleans. Also Jesuit-controlled: Wisconsin's Marquette University, though it now has only 60 Jesuits (and 420 lay teachers) for 10,300 students; Creighton University in Omaha, headed by the Very Rev. Carl Reinert, younger brother of St. Louis' president; and the University of Santa Clara (1,400 students), oldest college in California...
...this for me.' The sole objection advanced only serves to emphasize what a 'good Catholic' Kennedy is, for the merits of the Catholic school claims for public assistance are not recognized by a large segment of the Catholic public." Historian Edward Gargan, of Chicago's Loyola University, dismissed school aid as "an ephemeral issue." Said he: "To many Catholics, the question of federal aid is a minor issue com pared to the great questions of medical aid for the aged or atomic warfare. Most Catholics, like people of conscience generally, want the President to concentrate...
...Family Man. Sparkplug of this international campaign is a Jesuit theologian, Francis Lad Filas, 46, chairman of the theology department at Chicago's Loyola University. One day in 1937, Filas stumbled on an ancient German treatise on St. Joseph, and was attracted to the Virgin's husband as "an obscure underdog who didn't deserve the treatment he had received in history." In 1944 he published his first book on Joseph, The Man Nearest to Christ, and books, pamphlets, lectures and magazine articles on the saint have been pouring out of his typewriter ever since. Jesuit Filas...
...FATHER FRANCIS FILAS, S.J., chairman of the department of theology at Chicago's Loyola University: ''Shocking as this new possibility may seem to so many people, the fact is that the situation is nothing else but a new application of a constantly recurring moral decision that is described by Roman Catholic moral theologians as the principle of double effect. This means that in doing one good action with good intention, one may find an evil result inextricably connected with the good that is intended. Examples in the past are the unavoidable death of noncombatants...
...year; this week they said goodbye to their families and disappeared behind the walls of San Francisco University's Phelan Hall atop one of the city's hills, to spend the next three weeks going through the famed Spiritual Exercises of 16th century St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit Order. Beginning July 1, they will be ready to teach the theology of the Roman Catholic Church to ordinary men and women-Catholic and non-Catholic-in any parish that hires them. And hire is no figure of speech; each of them will start at $500 a month...