{"id":6932,"date":"2006-06-26T09:24:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T09:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/dining-with-dead-jesuits.html"},"modified":"2006-06-26T09:24:20","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T09:24:20","slug":"dining-with-dead-jesuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/dining-with-dead-jesuits.html","title":{"rendered":"Dining with Dead Jesuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew of Holy Whapping took a journey to the Culinary Institute of America, formerly a Jesuit seminary. It’s a lovely meditation.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chatting with the waitress as she handed off a steaming and welcome plate of ravioli to me, the girl explained that somewhere in the bowels of the complex, overgrown with new pseudo-classical wings, was the cemetery of the old Jesuit Fathers. They hadn\u2019t moved the graves when they packed up shop.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a certain melancholia here, like the monks interrupted at their prayer by Thomas Cromwell\u2019s men, until you realized there was no forced dissolution here. The bones of their past were left behind like forgotten luggage. They didn\u2019t have time even for the recent liberal past\u2014for one of those graves is the final resting place of P\u00e8re Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the ghostly father of so many odd and almost Gnostic turns of phrase. His disciples pop up from time to time and ask to see the old boy.
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The Jesuits still circulated his scribblings sub rosa<\/em> in mimeograph form and probably enjoyed soaking up the mild thrill of cloak-and-dagger posing that it entailed, while the man himself appears to have kept fairly quiet in his declining years up at St. Andrew\u2019s, dying on Easter Sunday, 1955. Fifteen years later, the Jesuits that had ooh\u2019d and aaah\u2019d at his theological pyrotechnics left him, and their other predecessors, behind with the cooks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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