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Total Effort. Opus Dei (official title: Sociedad Sacerdotal de la Santa Cruz y del Opus Dei) was founded in Madrid on Oct. 2, 1928. The founder was a young Marist priest, José María Escrivá de Balaguer, whose aim was to tie the struggle for spiritual perfection to the struggle for professional perfection in the modern world. Instead of retiring into monasteries, he felt, men with a secular calling as well as a sacred one should be able to follow both at once. The solution: in addition to vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, a man pledges...
Searchers groped through the smoke-filled passageways, looking for stragglers. Brother Eugene Benoit, Montreal teacher and member of the Institution of Marist Brothers, went from cabin to cabin, smashing windows with his hands and pushing children out the portholes. Many took him for a priest and asked for absolution. Brother Benoit prayed for them...
...months after the Jap came, Marist Father Albert Lebel still served on Bougainville Island. Once he talked his way ashore from a Jap destroyer by arguing that he was doing no harm and would be only another internee to feed.* Back at his coastal mission, Father Lebel used both brass and stealth to help more than 70 nuns, priests and others to escape from the island. Only on orders from his bishop and military authorities did he finally leave himself...
...first case of missionaries martyred by the Japanese in World War II was reported last week. At Ruavatu on war-torn Guadalcanal four Roman Catholic missionaries of the Society of Mary and the Marist Fathers were bayoneted in the throat: Sisters Mary Sulvia of France and Mary Odilia of Italy, Father Henry Engberink of The Netherlands and Massechusetts-born Father Arthur Duhamel. Three days later the Dutch announced that eight more Catholics, including the 70-year-old Bishop of the Kai Islands, north of Australia, had been executed...
Still, at Atlanta's Marist High School, where he is a freshman, young Bobby is a standout golfer. Last week he found himself competing with 100 other schoolboys in the sixth annual Southern Prep and High School golf tournament. "I don't expect him to break 90 for his first 18 holes," said Father Jones, on hand to watch his son play. Not the least embarrassed, Emperor Jones explained his son's game: "He hits the ball a mile from the tee, a mile on the fairway, a mile on the green in almost any direction...