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...Jesuits rose to eminence in the two centuries that followed Ignatius' death. Seeking to be the consciences of kings, they served as confessors to every French King from Henry III to Louis XV. In 16th and 17th century China, the great Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci and his successors labored for decades to impress the Emperor and the powerful mandarin scholars with their own impeccable scholarship, eventually becoming keepers of the imperial calendar. But this opportunity to win China for Christianity was lost when Rome denied the missionaries' pleas that Chinese converts be left undisturbed in their Confucian reverence for their...
During the 16th and 17th century missionary campaigns in Asia, several of the early Jesuit efforts were impressively productive. In China, Father Matteo Ricci put on the dress of a Confucian scholar and won widespread respect both for his scientific expertise and for the wisdom of Catholic teaching. In India, Father Roberto de Nobili assumed the saffron robes and vegetarian diet of a Hindu sannyasi, or holy man. He used the Hindu vedas to teach about Christ and won converts among the Brahmans themselves...
...whether the Vatican can woo a far tougher opponent: China's Mao Tse-tung. In recent years, Pope Paul has delicately noted that the church favors the "just expression" of social changes in China, but Mao has been slow to reply. The land once so open to Matteo Ricci remains for the moment incontestably closed...
Died. Nina Ricci, 87, Paris couturière who founded the design house bearing tier name; in Paris. Established in 1932, the house of Ricci quickly developed a reputation for graceful designs; then in the late 1950s, led the way with fashions featuring plunging necklines, fitted waists and belled skirts. By then, Ricci was also known for sensuous perfumes, but the unpretentious Mme. Ricci all the while maintained a low profile that made her the antithesis of her headline-making contemporary, Coco Chanel...
...surge of optimistic innovation showed that Paris, like a declining dictator, was the last to get the word of its own ebbing strength. "This year," predicted Robert Ricci, "is the year of the big change. Last year was bad for business because women hesitated to buy. There had been no decision. This year will be much better." The decision, of course, was to strike the mini-midi-maxi declension from the fashion texts. Now, as far as Paris is concerned, there are to be only two kinds of hemlines: long and longer. Perhaps. But women busy liberating themselves from...