Word: wlodimir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome-the first meeting of the high command of the Society of Jesus since 1923-French Catholics believe that this Jesuit left wing predominated. Immensely secret, the Congregation revealed only that it had elected a Perpetual Vicar General for the order, to help the ailing General, Very Rev. Wlodimir Ledochowsky, with his manifold duties. The new Vicar General, a 37-year-old Belgian named Maurice Schurmans, was saluted by French Jesuits as an able antiFascist, of a neutral nation, who would help orient the policies of the Society of Jesus toward a world-wide battle against Fascism as well...
Like a monarch with a cabinet, the "Black Pope" of the Society of Jesus has a curia of seven assistants. All must live in Rome. Last week "Black Pope" Wlodimir Ledochowski, able, rugged Pole, summoned Very Rev. Zacheus J. Maher of San José, Calif, to be his assistant for North America. San Francisco-born Jesuit Maher has been president of Santa Clara University...
...Superior General of the Society of Jesus (at present Polish Wlodimir Ledochowski) is often called the "Black Pope" - because he wears a black habit and possesses powers which, in their limited way, resemble the Holy Father's. The General, like the head of any religious order, is elected by a Jesuit general congregation which rarely convenes for any other purpose. He has large spiritual and admin- istrative authority, even to setting aside (but not altering) the Constitutions written by St. Ignatius Loyola and associates and adopted in 1558. The General lives in Rome, is advised by assistants from various...