Loyola University Maryland - Evergreen / Green and Gray Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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ERIEF STORY OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS and a word about the beginning of Loyola College of Baltimortj F ounded 400 years ago and still very much alive today, the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, numbers 26,000 in the world, of whom over 5,000 are citizens of the United States. It is a vital organism. Men of vari- ous types and differing characters, yet some impressionable Catholics claim they can recognize one as such. But our brief summary cannot afford to indulge in romantic wanderings. Neither Macaulay nor Thackeray may serve as our model. However, it should be that we their students know them in part as they are. What are our editorial impressions after some study of Jesuits in the past and a more prolonged acquaintance with live Jesuits? Here is the starting point: we will never understand the St. Ignatius Loyola 11

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Ignatius and Loyola at the University of Paris Jesuit enigma, the startling achievements of the Order despite the human short- comings of its priestly troopers unless we grant the root assumption of Ignatius and the Jesuits that men may be possessed of strong personal love of Jesus Christ, Captain and King. Men are few, life is short, training long, so not just any good Do the Jesuits belong but the better, the best in the circumstances was Ignatius aim, hence to romantic history or present fact? Are they his motto: ‘To the greater glory of God.” still alive? A living corporation is judged by its deeds rather than by its program. Let us look at the record. The Order has worked for the laity. In church at the altar rail and in the confessional, in school in the training of ‘‘leaders,” in publica- tions— theological, philosophical, social, ascetic — in her missions, by and large, the individual man has not been treated as a type nor as a digit. This work for the lay Christian, born or converted, should be the pride of the Order. Baroque art and architecture, but with plenty of room for the laity close to the altar rail, late renaissance classical education baptized as it were, reams of paper filled 12