Posts Tagged ‘Jesuit’

Jesuit magazine: Bin Laden a menace to mankind and had to be stopped

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

“Bin Laden was dangerous, and he had to be stopped. Presuming his innocence was legally legitimate but unreasonable.”  The chorus of criticism addressed to the White House from various sectors of the international community for the suppression of the head of Al Qaeda finds no echo in the Vatican. “The ocean would dilute the memory Read more

Jesuits boost rugby at US schools

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Rugby is experiencing an American boom, and nowhere more so than at the 80-plus Jesuit high schools and colleges coast to coast. It’s probably not too surprising that a Catholic order conceived in the aftermath of battle, one which has always seasoned its intellectual and spiritual fervour with a healthy respect for physical strength, has Read more

Northwest Jesuits pay $1.61m sexual abuse compensation

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

The US Oregon Province of the Jesuits, has agreed to pay US$166.1 million to compensate more than 450 native American child victims of sexual abuse. The “Northwest” Jesuits paid the compensation for what has been described as “horrific”, the sexual abuse at it’s religious mission schools, mainly on Indian reservations from the 1940’s through to the Read more