Letters

Jesuit legacy

Ken Bayliss

Contents - May 2013 - Buy a copy now Editorial: AD2000: looking towards the future - Damian Wyld Francis: pope of paradox - Damian Wyld News: The Church Around the World Youth: Reasons for Hope retreat for young adult Catholics - Barry Coldrey Legacy: An Act of Faith: AD2000 after 25 years - B.A. Santamaria Church unity and the Anglican Ordinariate - Archbishop Gerhard Müller Abortion: confused pain in a confused society - Anne Lastman The plight of Egypt's Christians - Youssef Sidhom History: The Church in the Middle Ages: the role of bishops - Frank Mobbs Order of Malta: 900 years young (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium) Pauperum. - Damian Wyld Ancient Greek contributions to Western Church music - Christopher Warner Letters: Holy Land visit - Julie-Ann McLoughlin Letters: Jesuit legacy - Ken Bayliss Letters: What is Heaven? - Winsome De Jong Letters: Hypocricy - Arnold Jago Letters: Letters of thanks to Michael Gilchrist - Various Books: SAINTS, SACRILEGE AND SEDITION: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations - Michael Daniel (reviewer) Books: SIXTUS V: the Hermit of Villa Montalto, by W.T. Selley - Michael Daniel (reviewer) Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au Reflection: Pentecost: opening our minds to truth and our hearts to love - Bishop Arthur Serratelli

Euge, Euge! (Bravo, Bravo!) to Pope Francis, the 266th successor of St Peter. The new Holy Father is the first true son of Ignatius Loyola to become the Vicar of Christ on earth.

The Movement, or the National Civic Council from mid-1957, has very good reason to record our gratitude to other true sons of Ignatius Loyola and the late great Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne, thought so highly of the Society of Jesus that he appointed some of their members to teach in his seminary.

The Institute of Social Order, Melbourne, was run by Fr W.G. Smith SJ while Fr John M. Fahey SJ provided the intellectual, spiritual and motivational training of NCC members across Australia on a monthly basis in an era before television and twenty years before the appearance of the first Red Brick universities.

Their spiritual and sociological insights motivated NCC members to better understand and recognise Christ the King on earth in ordinary everyday social activities, aided by their monthly journal Social Survey.

I know Bob Santamaria and Brian Mullins were very grateful to these "Pope's men" and to dear friend Fr Gregory Jordan SJ who for 25 years in Queensland has been a model of Ignatian fidelity.

KEN BAYLISS
Holland Park West, QLD

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 26 No 4 (May 2013), p. 15