NEWS & VIEWS
NI:W2j 6E VIEWS Trading on Religion In Italy authorities are doing battle again with the merchandizers of "Jesus Jeans." Last summer, the Milan clothing company and its...
...The journalism review [More] handled the controversy lightheartedly, sighing that "it was a week to test the faith of any believer...
...Two United Church of Christ resolutions on Gulf Oil's operations in Portugueseruled Angola and on "energy crisis" issues were overwhelmingly defeated by Gulf's stockholders...
...Malcolm Pennington, chairman of the board, cited three reasons for the termination: 9 The exodus of persons from the ministry has tapered off...
...The experience this spring, in sum, may bring a reopening of the question whether religious groups and others of social responsibility can indefinitely justify stock-holding in corporations of unenlightened business practices on grounds that their investment position enables them to work for a change in corporate practices...
...An Italian court decision appears to leave objectors with no recourse for their outrage other than a boycott...
...The agency, founded in 1966 to ease the transition of clergy and women religious to secular life, has been voted out of existence by its board of directors...
...The first ads to run in the press showed a voluptuous "Kate Smith" cradling a baby, with halos and radiance above their heads, and what looked like a "sacred heart" on the bosom of her dress...
...The Times again got in touch with the ad agency handling the film: the Star of David would have to go if the ad ran again...
...9 Decisions to move from church to secular employment is less emotional today than when Bearings was set up--and more acceptaMe to the public...
...A U. S. bankruptcy judge named a receiver for Cedars of Lebanon Hospital after a hearing that revealed debts totaling more than $12 million, including $910,000 owed IRS for taxes withheld from employees...
...The Daily News, heeding the Times' troubles, deleted the illustration from its ad for the film...
...Still Losing Big Church-sponsored stockholder resolutions are not faring well at spring corporation meetings...
...Bye, Bearings Bearings is gone...
...The Dirty Dozen" Environmental Action, a national conservation organization, has fingered the "Dirty Dozen" of the House and called for their defeat in the 1974 elections on the basis of their poor record on environmental issues...
...Faring somewhat better was a resolution filed by the Loretto Motherhouse of Nerinx, Ky., dealing with Bethlehem's strip-mining operations and the effects of environmental destruction on the people of Appalachia...
...The chances of sensitizing a giant corporation and its millions of stockholders through an annual resolution or two are so slim that even token holdings seem to become doubtful...
...Last summer, the Milan clothing company and its advertising department shocked sensibilities with a promotion showing a female torso in unzippered blue jeans and bearing the slogan, "Thou Shalt Have No Other Jeans But Me...
...Additional "Dirty Dozen" candidates are Glenn Davis [R-Wis.], William Hudnut JR-Ind.], John Hunt JRN J], Earl Landgrebe JR-Ind.], Roger Mathias JR-Cal.], Dale Milford [D-Tex.], William Scherle [R-Iowa], Burt Talcott [R-Cal.] and Roger Zion JR-Ind...
...Coincidentally or not, 50 percent of these were defeated, including former Interior Committee Chairman Wayne Aspinall of Colorado...
...Over an eight-year period, Bearings assisted 5,500 persons, 70 percent of them Catholic...
...Bearings has served a considerable segment of humanity in a time of its want," Pennington declared...
...Frank Stubblefield [D-Ky.], vice-chairman of the Agriculture Committee, and Samuel Devine [ROhio], ranking Republican on the Interstate Commerce Committee...
...A total of 1,620,702 shares was voted in favor of the Sisters' resolution, to 29,807,133 opposed...
...JOHN DEEDY 17 May 1974:250...
...A plug in her advice column for Eugene Kennedy's Living with Everyday Problems brought 5,000 book orders in three days to the publisher, Thomas More Press in Chicago...
...The Miami hospital visited by Nixon last February and cited by him as a model for his privately financed national health insurance plan has gone into receivership...
...9 Denominations and dioceses are providing more support and counseling to men and women who review their career options...
...The showing, heartening as it may have been, still leaves the Sisters far short, however, of realistic possibility of success then...
...Odds and Ends --The Archdiocese of Baltimore will ordain two black seminarians this month...
...The Times' advertising acceptability department hurriedly deleted halos and radiance as offensive to certain religious groups...
...In New York, meanwhile, ads for an X-rated movie called Bible...
...Its clincher: "Cardinal Cooke was trapped for over an hour in an elevator...
...Adding Coals to the Fire Department: Bishop William Philbin of Down and Connor has refused the sacrament of Confirmation to Catholic children attending state-operated schools in Belfast...
...It ruled last fall that the ad posters were not intended to be "offensive to religion or public decency," trade name and scriptural allusions notwithstanding...
...were causing upset...
...Individuals contacting Bearings have dropped from a peak of 400 per month to less than 30...
...At Bethlehem Steel's meeting, a resolution asking termination of a contract with Portugal for mineral-exploration rights in Mozambique picked up only 50 votes more than the 1,400 held by the filer: the Women's Division of the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries...
...The list includes Sam Steiger JR-Ariz.], second ranking Republican on the Interior Committee...
...Environmental Action named "Dirty Dozen" legislators in 1970 and 1972...
...Overlooked was the heart--and a Star of David hanging around the woman's neck...
...The Angola challenge received 2.3 million votes, and the energy challenge, 3.2 million . . . . That's out of 194,651,710 outstanding shares...
...Helping fill the vacuum created by Bearings' closing will be Opportunities for Professional Transition, Inc., a New York organization formed in 1970, and career development centers and spin-off groups in New York, Pittsburgh and other cities...
...It "has won the gratitude of thousands, and can become a footnote in the history of the church...
...The unexpected 5.16 percentage qualifies the order to file the same challenge a second time--a year hence...
...This spring the company is showing the rear ,dew of a female model in denim shorts, over which is imprinted, "He who loves me, follows me...
...They will be the filst black parish priests ordained in the archdiocese, the oldest in the U.S., in its 185-year history...
...Don't knock Ann Landers' pulling power...
...During the segregationist years, black students of the diocesan seminary went elsewhere for ordination...
Vol. 100 • May 1974 • No. 11
