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...addition to the Harvard Divinity School, the new academy is serving as consultant to Loyola Catholic University of Chicago and Yeshiva University in New York...
...years after he was canonized, more than 200,000 graduates of the nation's Jesuit-run high schools, colleges and universities (69, with an enrollment of 122,418) gathered in some 150 U.S. cities and towns for special Masses and breakfasts in honor of St. Ignatius of Loyola. For U.S. Roman Catholics it was the high point of the Ignatian Year - the 400th anniversary of Loyola's death. Since last July 31, in churches, chapels and mission stations all over the world, Roman Catholics have been honoring the memory of one of the great creative innovators and proselytizers...
...When I Wish." Inigo de Loyola was born the year before Columbus discovered America, to a Basque family of impoverished nobility in Spain. As a boy he was a page at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella, up to his young ears in palace intrigue and frivolity. He burned to be a famous warrior and knight. But when he was 14 a court intrigue misfired, and Ignatius went out to seek his glory elsewhere...
...took his first lessons in Latin with a group of schoolboys, then moved on to Paris, center of European scholarship, to attend the College Saint-Barbe. There he gathered about him six of the most brilliant men, one of them Francis Xavier. From that small band grew Loyola's Society of Jesus, officially constituted six years later-in 1540-by Pope Paul III. Ignatius, ordained a priest only three years before the papal recognition, at last became a "general," for the Society of Jesus was set up like a military body. with obedience its prime article...
...dwindled in membership from 23,000 to 600. During that time, when many Jesuits sought peace in the new U.S., John Adams warned Thomas Jefferson against them: "If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth and in hell, it is this Society of Loyola's. Nevertheless we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them asylum...