Friday, July 11, 2008

When Progressive Meant Something Else

A GERMAN ELECTED JESUIT GENERAL;
Father Wernz, a Profound Student of Canon Law, Chosen.
A move against France-- German Catholics Jubilant --
New General an Energetic Man of Progressive Ideas.
September 9, 1906, Sunday
Page 12, 895 words
ROME, Sept. 8. -- Francis Xavier Wernz, a German, was to-day elected General of the Society by the Congregation of the Company of Jesus, in succession to the late Father Martin, who died last May.

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