Word: jesuitically
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Most tony U. S. prep schools-such as Phillips Andover and Exeter, St. Paul's, Groton, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Kent-are Protestant, in spirit if not by direct church affiliation. Twenty-five years ago a Jesuit-educated young man named Nelson Hume decided that this was unfair to Roman Catholic boys. In the hills of western Connecticut, not far from Hotchkiss and Kent, he started Canterbury School, where well-to-do Catholic boys, without neglecting their religious training, might prepare for Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Williams with the same swank as their Protestant contemporaries. Last week this Roman Catholic Groton...
...Said Jesuit Mayer in 1937: "It is better for a priest to be shot down in Spain than to see his faith being dragged into the dirt in Germany." The Gestapo promptly arrested him. He was given a suspended sentence by the court, rearrested by the Gestapo. Like Niemoller he has refused release offered him on condition that he refrain from preaching...
Priest & Pastor. The next-door cell to Niemoller's is occupied by Jesuit Rupert Mayer. Like Pastor Niemoller, Priest Mayer was a World War I hero, supported the Nazis in their early days, opposed them violently when they showed their anti-Christian colors...
Nowhere was the Jesuit quadricentennial celebrated more widely last week than in the U. S., for here labor 5,440 members of the Society-more than in any other nation, even Catholic Italy. Most intellectual of the Catholic orders (it normally takes 15 years of work, prayer and scholarly study to become a fully professed Jesuit), it is best known in the U. S. for the 14 universities it runs. At the anniversary convocation of the biggest, New York's Fordham,* the Very Rev. Robert Ignatius Gannon, S.J., succinctly summarized his order's first four centuries...
...with some friends one evening a few years ago, he paused to listen to a soapbox orator in full cry under a huge cross set up in Manhattan's Columbus Circle. Some of the things the rabble-rouser spouted as "Catholic" doctrine burned Harry up. "I was in Jesuit schools twelve years," he growled, "and I never heard stuff like that." He began to growl louder. The speaker kicked at him. That was a mistake. Two-hundred-and-twenty-five-pound Harry Dalton caught the speaker's foot, yanked him from the stand. Then Harry Dalton took...