RT Article T1 The Jesuits and Joe McCarthy JF Church history VO 46 IS 3 SP 374 OP 388 A1 Crosby, Donald F. LA English PB Cambridge Univ. Press YR 1977 UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1779565321 AB The Jesuits frequently attract public attention, and one such occasion for notoriety occurred in the days of the Communist hunt commonly associated with the name of the junior Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908–1957). During the years from 1950 to 1957 there were repeated attempts to link McCarthy with the Jesuits, (or, paradoxically, to link him with the Senator's opponents). The national Jesuit weekly America became embroiled in one of the most bitter arguments which broke out in the controversy. The events illustrate not only the intensely divisive nature of the dispute over McCarthy, but the peculiar position of the order both in the Church and in the intellectual life of the nation as well. DO 10.2307/3164134