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Article: Arrival of Jesus put an end to prophecy, waiting. (Cover Story) (Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- December 24, 1993
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It is said that in the 1950s when students at Rome's Jesuit Gregorian University went to greet their professors on Christmas morning, nothing could be heard in the gloomy corridors other than the tap-tap of typewriters. It was business as usual.
They were writing learned articles, massive tomes or unpaid "opinions" for Roman congregations. Possibly Dutchman Fr. Sebastian Tromp was sketching out a new encyclical for Pope Plus XII. In a lecture, Tromp once let slip the remark: "As we said in our encyclical ..." only to correct himself hastily. He was referring, I think, to Mystici Corporis. Gregorian professors don't draft encyclicals these days. But that's another ...