NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS& VIEWS Aborted Liturgy A lay woman and two Sisters created consternation at a meeting in Nazareth, Ky., of the National Assembly of Women Religious, when they officiated at a "liturgy," then...
...The women Sister Anita Caspary, formerly Mother Humiliata of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters of Los Angeles...
...Bernard L. Minetti" The Seattle Post-Intelligencer heard the word, and got up a story headed: naval REVIVAL PLAN DRAWS FIRE AND BRIMSTONE...
...So far as I am concerned," wrote reviewer Howard Schuman, "Schmalz, God of Slight Drizzle hangs over the evening, standing between the play and the greatness it so clearly lusts after...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...his methods were "worthy of Hitler...
...NEWS& VIEWS Aborted Liturgy A lay woman and two Sisters created consternation at a meeting in Nazareth, Ky., of the National Assembly of Women Religious, when they officiated at a "liturgy," then aborted it just prior to the words of the Consecration...
...Source of the controversy is a Vatican decree suspending French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and the 12 priests he ordained at his pre-Vatican H-type seminary at Econe, in Switzerland [News & Views, 7/4/75...
...After a pause, a delegate seized the microphone, and, referring to women's inability to complete the Eucharistic celebration, said: "I hope you are all as disturbed by this as I am...
...Walter Kerr, residing at same address, "married Jean Kerr on 9 August, 1943 and they have 6 children...
...Trouble to France Is France on the verge of its first schism since the 14th Century...
...Pope Paul "did not cut his head off," said columnist Jean Dutourd, "but it is not impossible that this elderly man will now die of chagrin...
...He was turned down each time...
...The larger sentiment, however, seemed to be on the side of the "celebrants...
...and Mary Beckman, of the Catholic Charities Social Action Office in Brooklyn took their service through the Liturgy of the Word, the Preparation of the Gifts taken from Eucharistic Prayer #2, the sung "Holy, Holy, Holy," and the prayer just prior to the Consecration...
...Cross Currents, a quarterly, is observing its 25th anniversary...
...Who's What Overview, the Thomas More newsletter out of Chicago, continues its sleuthing of the bicentennial American Catholic Who's Who, discovering that the volume fails to include Father Charles S. Coughlin, "radio priest" of the 1930s...
...A Chorus Line, on opening in England, reminded The Times Literary Supplement of Robert Bench-ley's grand-opera character, Schmalz, God of Slight Drizzle...
...The action has people and press exacerbated in measure unmatched since France's student riots of eight years ago...
...A priest-observer remarked: "What bothered me was the built-in confusion as to whether people were there to pray or to protest...
...It was not good liturgy...
...nothing...
...On several occasions, Lefebvre reportedly requested an audience with the Pope...
...Meanwhile, protests were fired off to Washington from church - state separationists, and from clergy objecting to the Navy's going evangelical...
...Said one French prelate: "The Pope acted like a despot...
...The letter, on Department of Navy stationery, termed the Revival a commemoration of the Bicentennial, a spiritual "pilgrimage," "a campaign for Christ," and signed off: "Hoping I may be as successful as St...
...As one Lutheran minister remarked, "The Commander's off base...
...Earlier it had sport with the entries of Jean and Walter Kerr: Jean Kerr, resides at "1 Beach Avenue, Larchmont Manor, N.Y., wed Walter Kerr on 16 August, 1943 and they have 7 children...
...What irks the French particularly, more it seems, than ideology or theology, is the fact that Archbishop Lefebvre, 70, former Archbishop of Dakar.and of Tulle in France, and former head of the Holy Ghost Fathers, was given no hearing in Rome...
...Not bad headlining...
...However, no single appraisal was more graphic than that of Sister Mary Labunski, MSBT, of Worcester, Mass.: "When Sister Anita stopped, I thought, 'What a shame she was born with the wrong sex organs.' I'm sure Jesus wouldn't care if she had x or y chromosomes...
...he never did get the hang of standing...
...In my opinion, it was a good demonstration...
...That's the trouble with Schmalz...
...Navy Blues If God isn't on "our" side officially, "we're" on His, or at least the Navy in the northwest U.S...
...Then, silence...
...Thus the commander of Whidbey Naval Air Station in the State of Washington slated a late-summer, week-long "Old Fashioned Tent Revival" at the naval base for folks of the area, and wrote to clergy urging them to come with their flock...
...Inevitably the Revival scheme was deep-sixed...
...Sister Mary Reilly, RSM, a parish-team minister from Providence, R.I...
...France-Soir, a mass-circulation Paris daily, splashed a front-page column likening Pope Paul's disciplining of Archbishop Lefebvre to the execution of John Fisher in 1535...
...It is still appropriate," said editor Joseph Cunneen, "but by now both editors and regular readers are more aware that this needs to be understood in combination with the effort to explore the implications of our times for Christianity...
...I wouldn't want to be a part of an effort to go be- yond the boundaries of our authorized liturgy," said one Sister...
...Perhaps not, although Rome may have on Hs hands its touchiest European ecclesiastical problem since its contention with the avant-garde Dutch church in the late 1960s...
...Some felt that the happening treaded on sacred ground...
...A confrontation with the reality of an aborted ministry for women must, in the long run, lead women to appraise their exclusion from Holy Orders in the light of justice, commented Sister Maggie Fisher, RCJC, a member of the executive board of the National Assembly of Women Religious...
...They were, both pro and con...
...Paul in calling you to Christ, I am, your servant-in-Christ, "Cmdr...
...Odds and Ends Cross Currents is reconsidering its motto, To explore the implications of Christianity for our times...
Vol. 103 • September 1976 • No. 19
