While in Dublin recently, I stopped by the Jesuit community at Milltown to meet a man who had once taught Scripture in a huge college outside Buenos Aires, which was at that time run by the man who is now pope.
Father James Kelly recalls the regime at the Colegio Maximo in the early 1980s with awe, but with mixed feelings. "I had never seen anything like it," he told me. It was intense, austere and insular, but deeply rooted in spiritual discipline and a focused pastoral action aimed at raising the lives of the poor.
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