In keeping with the sports metaphors (for which I am becoming known even in South Bend), Whispers in the Loggia has scored in announcing to a still somnolent America the gaudium magnum of the newly elected Father-General of “this least Society:”

The septuagenarian Fr Adolfo Nicolas — the head of the Jesuit Conference of East Asia and Oceania — has been elected the 30th Father-General of the Society of Jesus and confirmed in the post by Benedict XVI.

Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, has contributed to Commonweal for fifty years. A selection of his essays and reviews, some of which first appeared in Commonweal, has been published as Christ Brings All Newness (Word on Fire Academic).

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