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...After St. Ignatius of Loyola founded the Society of Jesus 438 years ago, his Jesuits became the clerical shock troops of the Counter Reformation, the loyal defenders of the papacy. Many members of the order still make a special vow of fidelity to the Pontiff. Lately, however, some of the most outspoken attacks on Pope Paul VI from within the church have come from Jesuits-attacks that their superior general now wants stopped. In a letter to the world's 31,860 Jesuits, made public last week, the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe reminded them of their obligation to foster...
...progressive John Cardinal Dearden. But U.S. bishops are less likely to be active debaters than some of the European leaders, such as Belgium's Leo-Jozef Cardinal Suenens. Just how much Paul may be willing to listen to is questionable. In his opening speech last week, the Pontiff warned the delegates not to yield to the "particular danger" of pressures from the outside world, including either praise or criticism from the press or broadcasters. Just the day before, Paul had made it clear what he meant by dangerous pressures when he castigated the official Italian television network...
...that man if he had not been born.' I cannot think of that tragic Easter drama," he went on, "without associating it in my mind, as bishop and pastor, with thoughts of the abandonment, of the flight of so many brethren in the priesthood." His voice shaking, the Pontiff castigated the "vile earthly reasons" many had for leaving the priesthood and asked the congregation to pray "for those runaway brethren and for the communities they deserted and scandalized...
...dogma has been divinely revealed: that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra-that is, when carrying out the duty of the pastor and teacher of all Christians in accord with his supreme apostolic authority he explains a doctrine of faith or morals to be held by the universal Church through the divine assistance promised him in blessed Peter -operates with that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer wished that His Church be instructed in defining doctrine on faith and morals; and so such definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church...
...trip to India in 1964, Pope Paul VI gave her his white Lincoln Continental, which she raffled off to help the poor. In 1968. Paul called her from India to found a home for the poor, staffed mostly by Indian nuns, in Rome itself. Last week the Pontiff named Albanian-born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu -Mother Teresa of the Missionaries of Charity-the first winner of the $25,000 John XXIII Peace Prize...