NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS& VIEWS A New Kmf Case? Father Horst Hermann, teacher of canon law at the University of Miinster, in 1974 published An Immoral Relationship, a book about church-state relations in West...
...Its argument leans strongly on economics...
...Presumably the soap washes away dirt, not sins...
...Recently he appealed the bishop's decision to Rome...
...JOHN DEEDYer article on St...
...The study is available for $2.95 a copy by writing the Institute at 1775 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C., 20036...
...It's like a couple trying to celebrate an anniversary after the worst year they ever had...
...How about New Blackfriars, the monthly edited by Eng lish Dominicans, featuring a cover article on St...
...The B-l would cost too much and for the price would supply no great tactical advantage over the development of a new craft around the fuselage of a wide-bodied jet transport, such as the Boeing 747...
...The Good A the Bad It's been a mixed period for the business of religion...
...Entitled Modernizing the Strategic Bomber Force-Why and How, the study concedes the need for some new bomber force as insurance against the failure or destruction of strategic missile bases, but argues that the B-l is not the instrument...
...The bad news: Well, the monks at New Melleray Abbey in Iowa are no longer selling bread to the public...
...And speaking about prophets without honor...
...Harvard Magazine's bumper-sticker contest was won hands-down, we'd say, by Richard L. Kaye...
...He scored the fact that on the basis of agreements dating from the Weimar Republic and the concordat between the Vatican and the Hitler regime, the Church enjoys a privileged position -and, continuing to live still in the spirit of these agreements, it tends to cling to privileges that are immoral...
...Patent Office has patented a new "religious" soap (# 3,936,384), described and illustrated as a soap bar with a crucifixion scene embossed on one face and the words of a prayer on the other...
...Thomas Aquinus...
...of Brooklyn, since divested...
...A New York Daily News correspondent reports the creation of a Bicentennial casket...
...Odds and Ends -Financial difficulties have forced Presbyterian-affiliated Queens College of Charlotte, N.C., to drop four courses from the curriculum...
...Bishop Tenhumberg based his decision on another juridical reality, the earlier 1929 Concordat between Prussia and the Catholic Church, which gives the Church the right to ask that the state replace by another professor of its choice a professor it finds undesirable...
...In the middle of all this they ask us to hold a barn dance," Michener said...
...There's been no such religious breakthrough since 1965, when Evangelist Rex Humbard bought the Real Form Girdle Co...
...Hermann went further: from this fact the official Church in West Germany would be, in his view, "a system of injustice in which the real Church is no longer a partner to be taken seriously...
...The time for the critical decision is narrowing down...
...Bishop Tenhumberg felt the affair had reached the point at which sanctions were called for...
...A year after the book was published, Cardinal Dopfner, president of the country's bishops' conference, asked Bishop Tenhumberg of Miinster to apprise Horst Hermann-who is under his jurisdiction-of the "grave reservations the German bishops have about the book...
...Such adaptation could save the taxpayer $10- to $15-billion over a ten-year period, according to the Brookings Institute...
...Discommoded will be several score families...
...Kitsch is everywhere, but as James Michener might say, what else could you expect...
...Meanwhile, the affair is causing considerable comment among European theologians, in the press and on radio and television...
...The four chosen: Russian, German, philosophy and religion...
...Addressing a joint session of the Colorado Legislature, Michener framed the Bicentennial in the context of inflation, unemployment and the aftermath of Watergate...
...Professor Hermann was not at all disposed to accede to the request...
...The U.S...
...that is to say, Hermann was to lose his post as ecclesiastical professor to future priests...
...That's the good news- along, of course, with the news that the Diocese of Trenton has signed a three-year contract with the Ladies Professional Golf Association to sponsor tournaments on the next three LPGA tours...
...Among his entries: LAST BUT NOT LISZT, IT'S GRIEG TO ME, DE FALLA IN YOUR EYES, CZERNY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, TUBA FLAYERS HAVE BASS INSTINCTS, BEWARE THE IVES OF MARCH...
...JOHN DEEDYDY...
...Thomas Aquinus...
...The B-l, Again Add to the anti-B-1 literature [New & Views 2/27/76] a study published by the Brookings Institute...
...Henceforth the local supermarket will supply their loaves for their fishes...
...At the end of the meeting, he displayed the proofs of his new book, The Mortal Sins of the Catholic Church in West , Germany, about to emanate in a large printing from a major publishing house...
...Not only did he refuse to retract his theses, but he said he was going to present them in a more trenchant fashion still...
...But Professor Hermann sees this as only one more proof of the correctness of his theses...
...It was an exceptional sanction considering the juridical situation in West Germany: professors of theology are employees of the state, not the Church, and are paid by the state, not the Church...
...Reason given is the decline in Trappist ranks caused by death and those who leave the abbey for another life...
...Finally, probably to demonstrate that he does not have a one-track mind: SHAKESPEARE WAS AN AVON PRODUCT...
...Bicentennial IMNMM The Bicentennial goes from bad to badder...
...Bishop Tenhumberg believes he has found a good solution for this ecclesiastical dispute...
...Father Horst Hermann, teacher of canon law at the University of Miinster, in 1974 published An Immoral Relationship, a book about church-state relations in West Germany...
...Congress must authorize production of a fleet of B-ls by voting the funds for construction...
...The Defense Department, meanwhile, is pressing ahead with its B-l plans, and the other day Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld contended in a statement to Congress that the B-l is needed "to maintain an effective bomber force beyond the 1980s...
...Last October conversations took place between Bishop Tenhumberg and Father Hermann, who was summoned to retract the greatest part of his theses and above all to give up all sorts of theological formulations...
...He decided, since Professor Hermann had "clearly stood apart from the Catholic Church," to withdraw his canonical permission...
...It markets for $1,776, is colored red, white and blue, and comes equipped with plastic American flags...
Vol. 103 • March 1976 • No. 6
