Belmont Ibbey College

VOLUME III -ISSUE I MAY, 1974 Papal Delegate Visits Abbey Belmont Abbey was the than twenty priests con- privileged host of the newly celebrating, including bishops of appointed Papal Delegate for the the dioceses of Atlanta, United States, the Most Charleston, Charlotte, Raleigh, Reverend Jean Jadot, D.D., on and Savannah, and Abbots Founder’s Day, March 21. Edmund and Walter of Belmont Abbey. Archbishop Jadot was born In his homily the Apostolic Nov. 23, 1909 in , Delegate praised the Order of St. and was ordained a , i ^ priest in 1934. He served as a Benedict. Quotes by Popes John military chaplain in the former XXIII and Paul VI extolling the Belgium Congo, and was virtues of the Benedictines were National Director of Pontifical read. Using the Order’s motto, Missionary Work for Belgium “Ora et Labora’’ or “Prayer and when he was named in 1968 Work” as a basis, he Titular Archbishop of Zuri and congratulated the Benedictines appointed Apostolic Delegate for on their good work and service to , Malaysia and Singapore. mankind. In 1969, he was further given the At the close of this impressive position of Pro-Nuncio in service. Abbot Edmund Mc­ Archbishop Jean Jadot, Abbot Edmund McCaffrey and Bishops of the Province of AtlanU concelebrate Mass in the Abbey Cathedral for the I ^ , r’nu.. and also has served in Caffrey thanked Archbishop anniiaiFounder»8 Pay CelebraUonhetd March 21. | photo by Phil Nofal this regard in , and Jadot and the other bishops for . He is also Apostolic attending the celebration and, Ihouse, then he and the other the tradition of Western Delegate for . pledged continued loyalty to the dignitaries talked informally monasticism. Holy Father on behalf of with members of the campus As part of the Founder’s Day Belmont Abbey. community. celebration, the public was in­ Reprinted by permission of Later in the afternoon. Abbey vited to participate in a sung FREE LANCE, student high mass in the Abbey students and faculty were in­ Founder’s Day com­ Cathedral • vited to meet with the bishops at memorates the passing of Saint newspaper of Belmont Abbey the Chi Rho House, headquarters Benedict, who founded the College. Archbishop Jadot was the of the Campus Ministry. The Benedictine Ordpr at Monte principle celebrant of the more Papal Delegate blessed the Casino in 526, and thus started The full text of Archbishop Jadot’s homily Demonology Lectures Given Is printed on page four of The pages of the Bible and the of demonic activity by saying fluence of Persian religion began this Issue of Crossroads. history books were opened and that those who experience ex­ to change the Jews’ concept of the devil was introduced, his cessive fear of demonic Satan. background given and his role in possession after seeing the Persian religion, he said, was So Satan and demons became the history d man was explained movie are perhaps “eVnotionally more and more important in in a series of four lectures unstable, have neurotic disor­ based on dualism, or a belief in equally strong powers of good Jewish thought and later in presented by Belmont Abbey ders or are unsophisticated in Christianity. College. religious education.” and evil. Concerning actual demonic This thinking, Solari con­ Fr. James Solari, O.S.B., possession Solari suggested that Beginning with the first tinued, influenced Jewish perhaps the most outstanding Academic Dean of the college Biblical mention of Satan in the thought so that by the last instance in the Bible was the and a teacher of theology, and Book of Job, Sdari outlined the century, B.C., Satan had become case of Judas Iscariot. (John Fr. Lawrence Willis, O.S.B., a development of the Christian more of an evil being, between 13). teacher of theology and history, concept of the existence of an God and man in power, con­ presented the first lectures in an evil force. stantly trying to thwart the plan Exorcism, or casting out attempt “to put the devil in of man’s salvation. better perspective’’ because of In Job, Sdari ejqilained, Satan demons who have possessed the public interest in him that was not an “adversary” of God someone, Solari defined as has arisen since the book and and man; rather, he acted as a “The Jews felt a need to admit “Invtrfcing the name of God, to film, “The Exorcist,” became “heavenly prosecutor” of Job, intermediary beings between whom the demcxis are subject.” popular. testing the man’s human virtue. God and man, and a need to Later, during the Babylonian explain evil that could not be Fr. Solari prefaced his Captivity of the people of Israel reconciled with the all-holy (cont. on pg. 4) remarks on the Scriptural record in the sixth century, B.C., in­ God,” Solari said.