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Catholic Theologian Paul Hilsdale of Loyola University of Los Angeles, who is not prepared to admit that the story is simply legend, spies a sociological significance. The idea that Mary conceived without the aid of a man was a startling thought in a culture where woman was a second-class citizen; thus the story could be interpreted as a forerunner of today's equality of the sexes...
Rome's seminary system began to take shape after the 16th century Council of Trent, which ordered every diocese to support and properly train its own priests. In 1552 St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, set up the Gregorian. Eventually, Catholic prelates from other countries created col leges in Rome so that their brightest seminarians could study under the Greg's good Jesuit teachers or with the Dominicans at the Angelicum (founded in 1580). Once back home, graduates soon found that a degree from Rome was the sort of clerical credential that led to quick promotion. Study...
...Joseph R. Berrigan Jr., chairman of the department of history at Loyola University...
McKenzie spent 18 years at West Baden, and "hated every minute of it. The place was a cultural desert." He finally got a new assignment only when a fellow Jesuit complained that his afternoon typing disturbed the seminary's customary siesta. McKenzie then went to the Jesuits' Loyola University in Chicago, where he taught Biblical studies until last year...
STEPHEN R. DE ANGELIS, S.J. Loyola Seminary Shrub...