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Article: Josiah Royce and St. Ignatius Loyola (REVIEW ESSAY) - July 31st is the feast day of the Spanish mystic St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), the founder of the Jesuit order and the author of the famous Spiritual Exercises. The 'Contemplation to Attain Love' in the Spiritual Exercises (paragraphs 230-237) can be connected with what Harvard's philosopher Josiah Royce (1855-1916; Ph.D. in philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1878) says in his 1913 book in the philosophy of religion.

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Conservatives, reading the Second Vatican Council's documents like biblical fundamentalists, miss what it meant to participants.

(RNS) — Conservatives, reading Vatican II's documents like biblical fundamentalists, miss what it meant to participants.

He wrote groundbreaking histories of the Second Vatican Council, the late medieval church and the Jesuits, of which he was a member.