Editorial
CORRESPONDENCE Pel~tk~d Detroit, Mich. To the Editors: Three cheers for Carey McWiUiams's exposition [Dec. 3] of our continuing political crisis! Even Eugene McCarthy couldn't have said it...
...The outward strength of formal Catholicism on the campuses has been weakened in several ways...
...This violence to the integrity of the Mass distorts the signs that are communicated by it...
...But we should not be too discouraged...
...But in some ways this loss of political power has been healthy...
...Secoed class pesfage pan at New York, N.F...
...The central mystery of Ford's administration was also inherited...
...there was either a loss of vision or a failure of nerve in which the institutions, perhaps lacking a clear understanding of their own mission, watered down their programs to the point where too much of the basic Christian intellectual tradition was lost...
...But no more than the Gospels ask or the words Catholic and university claim...
...One of the signs is unity...
...But ultimately, once academic excellence is assured, one way always open to make universities more distinctively Catholic is for both the religious and lay faculty to witness the Gospel...
...A concept that still has not been adequately defined...
...One way to reestablish a Christian intellectual tradition is through a strong liberal arts curriculum, reinforced by science and the creative arts, built around both the religious and secular classics, modeled perhaps on the Great Books program and deeply concerned with social justice...
...The future shape of the campus Christian community may be very different, but for now religious communities who still live there (Benedictines, Jesuits, Religious of the Sacred Heart, etc...
...and we should not be surprised if each generation's attempt to combine its religious belief and intellectual life fails as often as any other attempt to live as a Christian in a civilization filled with conflicting values...
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...Some symbolic changes, while emotionaliy disturbing, have been minor: crucifixes have come off the walls...
...They have no right to exercise the priestly eucharistic ministry and the~, have no right to play games with a sacred ritual...
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...A lot of the reasons for having a Catholic university still apply...
...It is too 'bad that Mr...
...McWilliams didn't give him the cledit he rightly deserves...
...The ills of our political system, specifically, domination by the two major parties, was exactly What McCarthy's independent presidential campaign was all about...
...The cultural revolution of the 1960s, the change in intellectual climate ushered in by Vatican II which brought the values of the secular and religious worlds closer together, the defection from the faith due in part to a loss of confidence in the Church's Commonwea/: 35 leadership--plus economic problems aggravated by inflatiou, the unbridled expansion of competing public higher education, and a decline in the college-age population-have raised new questions about what makes a university specifically Catholic in a way that a secular campus with a Newman Club is not...
...Nor are there very many universities where, by general agreement, the thirst for knowledge, hunger for justice and dedication to the Gospels thrive side by side...
...WASHI]NGTOH REPORT THE GRAVES OF ACADEME The old administration winds slowly down into welldeserved oblivion...
...on the other, even on those slopes, he was powerless to do anything at all about the conditions that prevailed at Vail...
...I see no good coming from this sort of "fun and games"--except, perhaps, we can now see that some presumably mature and responsible people can do some outrageous deeds...
...It has challenged the academic religious leaders to examine themselves, to return to their roots, and rediscover the values they have to offer students...
...I, 1924, fo dale enraHuMe t i m l i Unlver~y Mkreglms...
...It has properly increased the influence of lay faculty and administrators who are assuming more and more of the presidencies of schools once "owned" by religious orders...
...but this usurpation undermines unity...
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...Nor can they rely on external formalities--religious dress and cloister--to communicate to a new generation of students that quality by which Jesus said his followers were to be reco~,nized--their love for one another...
...This is the adulation of Henry Kissinger...
...There is something wrong if the student can graduate without having read the Gospels, St...
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...Mere classroom presence is not enough...
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...The women who attempted to preside at a Mass don't seem to appreciate the sacredness of the total Mass rite...
...They can no longer freely hire and grant tenure to their priest and nun colleagues without the cooperation of the faculty at large, only some of whom may share the traditional values of the school...
...should see their vows as educative---counter-cultural signs under~ mining the materialism, greed, status-climbing, competitiveness and power lust that characterizes so much of American culture...
...Microfilms frem Ve...
...Augustine, Dante, Bernanos, the social encyclicals, Teilhard de Chardin, Barbara Ward and Dorothy Day--as well as Marx, Tolstoy and Thoreau--but has theology credit for Science Fiction 202 and Magic 101 on his transcript...
...Also, it would seem that they think there is something magiml about the words of consecration...
...People are still writing and speaking about his peculiar genius in foreign policy...
...William J. Lanouette ILLUSTR.4TIONS: Front cover and page 41: Daily Blotter/LNS JAMES O'GARA: Editor JOHN DEEDY: Manag/e g gd/ter RAYMOND A. SCHROTH: AsNclete Editor ANNE M. ROI"ERTSON: Edlfee/4d A~tent COLIN L. WESTBRBECK, JR.: Movies JOHN FANDBL: PeatrF FRANK GETLEIN: Wasl/egtee BRIAN WICKER: Great Britain ALAIN WOODKOW: Paris HENRY TEN EORTENAAR: Rome JOHN COONEY: DuMb EDWARD S. SKILLIN: Pibflsker JOHN BRUBAKBK: Advertlalag Maeager Sfeff: UNDA F. KAYUER, PAMELA J. P41"s HARRIETTB RAt.SKY COMMONWEAL A rlvlew ef Pebllc Affairs, LDerafnre end t i e Arfs...
...Teachers should be seen in their personal and social lives as happy, creative and fulfilled men and women...
...I pray that these people will recognize their error and ask for the Church's (Continued on paso 62) NEWS & VIEWS: 34 CORltlUPOND~(;,E: 35 EDITORIAL: 35 WASHINGTON REPORT: The Graees of Academe: Frank Getlein 3G RECONCILIATION IN MEMPHIS: Robert R. Holton 38 A NEW 'PERIL" Abigail McCarthy 40 TEE CASE FOR CATROLIC EDUCA,TION: Richard P. McBrien 41 'THE JOLY CROSS CASI~: Am Exel~snfle of Views 45 MEANWBILE, BACK IN DETROIT: George Pickering 49 VEILSE: Cyril Cusack 30 TEE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...it was a minor mystery in Nixon's, easily outclassed by more towering ones...
...Yet Catholic universities are in trouble today in part because they have sometimes articulated the highest ideals, raised the highest expectations, but lost sight of crucial aspects of their mission, and left many graduates disillusioned and bitter...
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...The idea is still a good one, as good as the two terms that make it up the quest for God and the struggle for human understanding...
...That genius so moved one normally rational senior Democrat that he seriously and publicly proposed that the President-elect insure domestic tranquiliity by announcing he would retain Kissinger in office, rather as, in the old days, new presidents made it their first business to re-appoint J. Edgar Hoover and Allen DuUes, with the results we have only begun to learn...
...It is the height of arrogance to presume to take the symbols of the priestly office and use them to serve as the instruments of some private grievance...
...At one time, until vigorous leadership brought them up to par, the religious character of these schools cloaked academic mediocrity...
...Other changes were more damaging: in some places the curriculum lost its substance and direction...
...Even Eugene McCarthy couldn't have said it better...
...Nor is mere liturgical presence: even Pharisees could pray in public...
...How else could one explain "aborting" the service just before those words were to be uttered...
...but it remained alive through the Vail interregnum and still manifests itself in the speculation and reflection of press and politicians...
...If God does reveal himself in history and in the creative activity of his creatures, the more students and their teachers plunge into the mysteries of science, literature and the arts, i~ the context of faith, the closer they come to understanding both nature and the life of God himself...
...the annual mass of the Holy Spirit is celebrated to a very thin group of faculty and students...
...A concept several writers have suggested is a "contradiction in terms," as if commitment to the Catholic religion and the free search for truth could not exist in the same institution...
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...no more prayers are said before class...
...Jom~ J. JACHMAN 'Ot~trajmmsl' Wm Pittsford, N.Y...
...On the one hand, he seemed, as ever, infinitely more at home, more rightly placed, as a middle-aged American enjoying the sport of his choice than as a statesman grappling with the problems, foreign and domestic, his caretaker administration inherited...
...Fere~p $19...
...Some religious orders have had to make their schools legally nonsectarian in order to qualify for state funds and have lost much of their administrative control...
...10] is an event symptomatic of a sick Church...
...5 I THE EXAMINED LIFE OF BISBOP PIKE: Charles Davis 53 THE CLASS OF '(IS: Ed McConville 54 BOOKS: Michael Harrington...
...To the Editors: The "aborted liturgy" in Nazareth, Ky...
...The last decade has brought special problems...
...In my opinion, their tampering with the Mass was wrong and outrageous...
...There was something sadly appropriate about what must be one of our final images of President Ford: out in Vail, wearing the funny clothes, invoking the snow gods to be kind to vacationists and invoking them unsuccessfully...
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...Nor is there any assurance that common educational values are shared within the religious community itself...
...In eight years of effectively directing the foreign affairs 21 January 1977:36...
...SIqJ_9 cepJcs 7 k . Cemmuw~ is bdexed h Reader's Guide to Pefled~ca/ Uterahrre, Cati~lc Parlance/ IBdex, emd Beak Review ~gest...
...The Catholic university...
...It can witness to the fact that faith and reason complement rather than cancelout each other...
...This of course is asking a lot...
Vol. 104 • January 1977 • No. 2
