Bob Jones, Jr. was a most interesting character, very humorous and engaging personally with a good sense of humor. He could discuss virtually any topic quite knowledgeably. The article reveals that he was a lover of art and quite a collector. Jones was also an accomplished Shakespearean actor and took roles in plays put on at the university. But you didn’t want to discuss Catholicism or politics with him. He saw the abuses of the Catholic church over the centuries as its main characteristic instead of balancing that with the good it had done.
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Yes he was an interesting character. I never had many conversations with him - but remember him fondly from school. Had a few - he did like to call my by my last name .. as it was Polish - and he just seemed to like to say it..
I remember him fondly. I graduated from Bob Jones in 1980 - so he was well along in years by the time I met him.
One day as I was leaving the dining common he was behind me .. called out my name and handed me a piece of cake .. laugh .. he decided he didn’t need it ..
Thanks that is interesting.
We still have many of those who call the Middle Ages as the Dark Ages, asking what was done -- and when you point out that during this age in which there were invasions by Vandals, Goths, Lombards, Burgundians, Huns, Franks, Saxons, Angles, Slavs, Magyars, Bulgars, Turks, Arabs, Moors, etc. etc. and yet at the same time despite all of these odds, Christ's faith is spread through the Germanics, Vikings, Slavs, Angles, Goths, Bulgars, Magyars etc.
They forget the marvellous ways in which man used art to glorify God.
Even today they forget the work done by say Mother Teresa's Roses in their continuous diatribes against the Christian faith.