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...medical clinics, an operating room, two dental clinics and a pharmacy. He also provided a new name: the Esperanto (Portuguese for hope). This month he officially dedicated the ark, and his main problem now is how to get the U.S. Navy or the Brazilian government or some other secular angel to waft the 55-ton Esperanto to its destination on the Amazon, more than 5,000 miles away...
...Accustomed as I am to flip treatments of religious topics in the secular press, I was pleasantly astounded by your perceptive, collage-like distillation of the struggles and spirit of the Society of Jesus yesterday and today...
...abstruse new theory of human knowledge that sought to unify all the sciences and subdivisions of philosophy in the pursuit of reality. Thomism became a live intellectual option, not merely in France but for two generations of Catholic students all over the world. It also became fashionable with such secular thinkers as Mortimer Adler of the University of Chicago, who helped spread Thomistic influences in America...
...point where, for a majority of our citizens, the rabbinical authority over our way of life is third in importance after defense and the economy. Most Israelis want a pluralistic system whereby those who want to be governed by religious law can voluntarily do so, and those who want secular law in matters of personal affairs can accept that...
...Israel, like the old, are quite prepared to face a hostile world all by themselves. One factor that unites the generations is a profound conviction-to some, perhaps, a substitute for religious faith-that their nation will survive, no matter what. Survival is the Jewish sacrament. Even the secular-minded are compelled to regard Jewish survival through millenniums of repeated exodus and holocaust as one of history's miracles. Israel is that miracle's latest and perhaps most remarkable incarnation...