EDITORIALS
CORRESPOND. NEWS & VIEWS: 322 CORRESPONDENCE:...
...Lerner: " `Hurry up, COMMONWEAL A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature and the Arts...
...With respect to the configuration of a tradi- number 110, and to their ranks will be added laymen...
...Congressman Robert F. Drin- high priests wanted to kill Peter and the apostles for an, S.J., has been free to work for Nixon's impeach- their preaching...
...be summoned home to pray before voting on impeach- Father Cleary should simply and privately direct ment, health insurance, abortion or school aid...
...Nor that he has a reputation for expensive has good Jesuit precedents for all his tastes...
...332 To the Editors: When Sisyphus writes A DEMAND FOR [MORE] : Linda Kuehl 334 [May 17]) "Yes, Scott Fitzgerald might THE WORLDS OF HARRY TRUMAN: Kenneth S. Davis 336 BOOKS: Walter M. Miller, Jr., Elliott Wright 338 have said to rephrase himself when he replied to Hemingway about the JAMES O'GARA: Editor JOHN DEEDY: Managing Editor RAYMOND A. SCHROTH: Associate Editor ANNE ROBERTSON: Editorial Assistant rich . . ." I suspect him of wanting COLIN L. WESTERBECK...
...15 a year...
...Perhaps Father McLaughlin to live in a less conspicuous Washtoo he forgot the varied pattern of Jesuit activity that ington apartment, to draw up a budget appropriate to would seem to establish precedent for McLaughlin's his work and return the rest of his $30,000 salary to position: Jesuits both oppose and support the Marcos his province...
...It was by Commonweal Publishing Co., 232 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y...
...Single copies 50c gerald, as the following edited transcript attests: 00000000000000*000 F. The very rich are different from you and me...
...Oregon's Daniel Lyons, S.J., religious superiors had best apply what we call Gamaliel's with right-wing financing, has been free to expound his Rule...
...In his theology ascetic living, expressed in dismay at the bomber of Hanoi, the invader of Cambodia, the landlord of San Father McLaughlin's residency at the Clemente, the man ultimately responsible for the whole network of crimes Watergate Apartments, seems unduly and cover-ups called Watergate, is "the greatest moral leader of the last selective...
...JR.: Movies JOHN FANDEL: Poetry Max Lerner's column in the Post...
...So too, a concern for word "Jesuit"-one who reasons cleverly to escape the truth...
...10016 MUrray Hill 3.2042...
...In fact, the episcopal conferences of ances and clashes preceding the ultimate decision...
...however, the objection is raised that ported that Paul VI is planning to establish a new basis such a restricted conclave, drawing only from the diofor the constitution of the electoral body of the next cese of Rome, would not suffice to guarantee an adequate conclave...
...vincing...
...He will remain in the White House and retain his post as leadaction against Presidential advisor John ing priestly disgrace...
...00000 00 0000000 PAPAL SWEEPSTAKES THE NEXT CONCZAVS The age and recently poor health of the Holy Father Others feel that the time has come to return to the has Rome buzzing with talk about the next conclave...
...cussed his subject's observance of the vows of poverty and obedience at a To the Editors: In response to reports press conference...
...theless, for the provincial to suddenly raise questions We think McLaughlin would have burned himself out, about McLaughlin's life style and job status "permisdestroyed his usefulness by an unending flow of ridicu- sion" when his activities have been public knowledge lous statements-such as his recently expressed willing- for years, and to suggest that he might be dismissed from ness to perform exorcisms...
...Nor that he lives outside committee...
...World: Angelo Cardinal Rossi, Prefect of the Propa14 June 1974: 324...
...But his religious superior, the Society when the Society had already tacitly conFather Richard Cleary, S.J., felt compelled to inter- doned his activities, and to suggest that McLaughlin vene...
...Our problem with Father McLaughlin is that he has enthusiastically alTo discover, for instance, at this late lowed himself, his priesthood and the prestige of his Order to be used to date that Father McLaughlin lacks offi- justify a pattern of political and moral corruption which his priesthood, his cial permission to serve in the White integrity, and his moral and intellectual training should call upon him to House is a feat worthy of the White condemn...
...Advertising Manager Lerner manner...
...But that except biweekly Christmas-New Year's and June to mid-September...
...the Nixon Administration...
...plaining that McLaughlin didn't speak for the Society, imprudently disNew York, N.Y...
...Nor that he excuses the President's of the accident of having been born in profanity...
...tradition of having the Pope elected from the Church L'Espresso (April 7), an Italian weekly magazine, re- of Rome itself...
...was the bartender speaking...
...In reply, many say presso's expression for "leaks" from Vatican officials- that the Pope should be no more than the symbol of the electoral body will be composed of 119 clergy (104 Catholic unity...
...Copyright Q 1974 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc...
...and Dan Berrigan, S.J.-once he returned from stood up and argued that if what the apostles were Latin American exile-has been free to napalm draft saying was false it would fail...
...What moves the rest of the Commonweal: 323 civilized world to moral outrage moves McLaughlin to We understand that Cleary did not "go public" on a clerical cover-up...
...By that rule McLaughlin can't last very long...
...Anyone can understand the third of this century" and the model of Christian charity...
...He invited his subject home to pray and reflect might somehow be straightened out by a week of prayer with him about his life...
...Printed in the USA and published weekly, said in Eliot's Waste Land...
...he should restrict his interventions to representatives of the various episcopal conferences plus extraordinary cases, and delegate to a curia composed some cardinals of the Curia) and an unspecified number of international experts the management of diplomatic, of laymen...
...Until the time of John the two Americas, 22 in Europe, 15 in Asia and 4 in XXIII, there were less than 70...
...Foreign $17...
...J. McLaughlin, S.J., the undersigned Let us be clear on what is most embarrassing about Father McLaughlin...
...munity...
...now the cardinal electors Australia...
...he's BRIAN WICKER: Great Britain ALAIN WOODROW: Paris HENRY TEN KORTENAAR: Rome JOHN COONEY: Dublin twisting his literary allusions in the EDWARD S. SKILLIN: Publisher JOHN BRUBAKER...
...financial and other temporal affairs...
...Neverhis talents...
...Perhaps he did not thoroughly and reflection all indicate Cleary's inexperience and perthink through the implications of this for politically in- haps a distorted notion of what can be accomplished by volved priests everywhere who theoretically could also prayer...
...conferences listed in the Annuario Pontificio (The Ponti- The next conclave will certainly be characterized by a fical Year Book) for this year, 31 are in Africa, 24 in relatively large number of voters...
...would like to announce the formation It is certainly not that he seldom wears clerical dress...
...77 episcopal conferences would rep- ible for participation in a conclave this year (8 exceed resent developing nations and 49 would represent West- the age limit), there is only one exponent of the Third ern nations...
...profanity is not this President's problem...
...The Europeans would lose The greater numbers and new areas imply the increased their hegemony and be replaced by the dominance of problem of maintaining secrecy on the elections, its allinon-Europeans...
...priests should be of a "Free Father McLaughlin Com- free to dress any way that fits their work...
...but Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, ment...
...According to certain "indiscretions"-L'Es- selection for such an important post...
...On the McLaughlin political philosophy, regime in the Philippines...
...If not, they could not be records, go to jail, and return to the peace movement...
...Hemingway who replied to Scott FitzUS and Canada...
...We do not think he should be lives in Watergate-although it is a strangely insensitive mind that does discriminated against merely because not see why he should not live there...
...By his example he has resurrected the pejorative meaning of the House staff itself...
...tional conclave, Paul VI's new plan would represent a The cardinals will represent large new areas of the globe...
...This is how the Doctor has used McLaughlin without seeing him privately first...
...THE HIRED COLLAR H. Yeah (expletive deleted), the (characterization omitted) have more A few weeks ago the greatest living embarrassment to American Jesuits money...
...we have grown accustomed to priests who live well...
...Then, the object of embarrassment became his religious superior who, in the course of exR.S.V.P...
...radical shift in voting power...
...According to this This plan disturbs those of the Curia who oppose the view, the Church should have a democratic, republican change it would make in the proportion of Western and structure: a "representative" head and an executive parThird World electors...
...They note that of the 96 episcopal liament...
...many Jesuits, for good reasons, cannot function properly when We believe that Father McLaughlin tied to traditional communities...
...and many other members of the church-was the Nixon Administration's JOHN F. MAHONY hired collar, Father ("Doctor") John J. McLaughlin, S.J...
...and McLaughlin (Continued on page 340) calls those who question this hypocrites...
...although the risks involved when priests get The statements by Father McLaugh- political power are obvious, we tend to favor priests' taking government lin's religious superior are hardly con- posts or running for office when peace and justice can be served...
...Africa and Asia outnumber those of Europe and North As matters now stand, of the 31 Curia cardinals eligAmerica combined...
...Nor that he works for the twentieth century...
...stopped...
...Now McLaughlin seems to have prevailed in their family that the Jesuits may take disciplinary quarrel...
...In the fifth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles the warhawk views for years...
...Nor that he activities...
...NEWS & VIEWS: 322 CORRESPONDENCE: 323 ENCE EDITORIALS: 323 1 THE NEXT CONCLAVE: John Navone 324 LA DIFFERENCE AMERICAINE: Abigail McCarthy 326 I-THE CHURCH TURNS ITS COAT: Alain Woodrow 327 Postscript II--NEW FACE EMERGES IN PARIS: Alain Woodrow 327 THE BISHOPS SAY NO: John Cooney 331 Mahopac, N. Y. VERSE: Michael Cuddihy 333 THE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...please, it's time,' as the pregnant lady Second class postage paid at New York...
Vol. 100 • June 1974 • No. 14
