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John Paul has entered a high-stakes game. The Jesuits are the largest (27,000) and the most dominant of the men's orders, with far-flung influence in education, theology and missions. The Superior General of the society is considered the second most powerful figure in Roman Catholicism...
...current conflict has been building ever since the Second Vatican Council, when some Jesuits began busying themselves in social action and in questioning papal teachings. In 1973 a harried Pope Paul VI wrote Superior General Pedro Arrupe to "express our desire, indeed our demand," that the Jesuits remain loyal to the papacy. In 1979 Pope John Paul II directed Arrupe to wipe out secularism and other "regrettable shortcomings...
...month long renovations, which ended last week, will enable fuller and more flexible use of the room both as a classroom and as a courtroom for the Middlesex Superior Court, George Oomen, special assistant to the vice-president for administration, said yesterday...
...sees Sean Connery as a fireman (like her scarecrow). But he has uncontrovertible proof that Connery was Agamemnon; and his parents are just as oblivious as ever. Thus, he must conclude the opposite from Dorothy: He could not have been dreaming, and there are most assuredly places far superior to home...
...booters were bruised or tired from the hard-fought Ivy matches at Princeton, they surely didn't show it, using their superior ball control skills to dominate the scrappy Eagles for most of the contest. While Harvard didn't outrun the psyched-up visitors (who were playing in their first Eastern Tournament ever), the nation's eighth ranked eleven simply outexecuted the Eagles on the plays--corner kicks, direct kicks, throw-ins--that often make the difference in close tournament competition...