Word: woodstock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prestige of Catholicism lower than in the country where, in such respects as wealth, numbers, and strength of organization, it is so powerful," wrote Historian D. W. Brogan. "The general Catholic community in America does not know what scholarship is," said Jesuit Theologian Gustave Weigel of Maryland's Woodstock College. And the Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, Hesburgh's predecessor at Notre Dame, asked sorrowfully, "Where are the Catholic Salks, Oppenheimers, Einsteins...
Bone in the Throat. In these ecumenical times, argued Father Walter J. Burghardt, S.J., professor of patristic theology at the Jesuit Seminary in Woodstock, Md., theologians are obliged to look harder at the issues that divide Christians. "For the bone that sticks in the Protestant throat," he said, "is Scripture v. dogma, the original message of salvation from the mouth of God and the promulgation of infallible propositions. It is this passage, this seemingly lyric leap from Scripture to dogma, and from dogma to dogma, that scandalizes the Protestant theologian...
...model and Sarah Lawrence freshman, who next week will marry Princeton Senior John R. Cooper, 21. Daughter of a top executive in the Erwin Wasey, Ruthrauff & Ryan advertising agency, Marcia will be married in a singlesteeple, knotty-pine chapel built especially for her wedding on her family's Woodstock, Ill., estate. Seating only 17 people, the chapel, which is a remodeled pump shed, has a built-in hi-fi system for organ music and a huge picture window opposite the altar so that guests sitting on the lawn will see the ceremony...
...long discussions between priest and writer, the source of much of the story, began the day before, when Father Murray met Auchincloss and Researcher Paula von Haimberger Arno at Baltimore's Pennsylvania Station. Driving his 1960 Dodge through the city's hilly outskirts to his headquarters at Woodstock College, Father Murray pondered the rapid disappearance of the U.S. countryside and good-naturedly brushed aside Mrs. Arno's apology for "wrecking his schedule." Replied the Jesuit: "What of a little wreckage? There is nothing but wreckage around us today...
...John Murray abandoned his earlier aim to become a doctor and joined the Society of Jesus at 16. After taking his A.B. at Weston, Mass, and M.A. at Boston College, he taught for the order in the Philippines for three years, then he went to the Jesuit college at Woodstock, Md. for four years of theology. In his third year there, he was ordained, aged 28. He put in two years of theological graduate study at Gregorian University in Rome and various other centers of Catholic learning in Europe before taking up his lifework as professor of theology at Woodstock...