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...Both white ethnics and President, Catholic League for kept blacks from amassing capital, en- blacks are demanding to get in, not Religious and Civil Rights tering business, maintaining artisan tra- only into the powerful symbol system ditions, and promoting education in the but also into full economic power and McLean, Va family also suggest differences in kind, status...

...we "more sensitively help one another," First, who is Joe O'Rourke...

...other, as affluent liberals in Newton and Brookline seem compelled to do, intelligent leaders are in a position to draw analogies, to point to similarities, to develop commonalities...

...ethnics...

...503 Lansing, Mich...

...It cuts short the apostolate of a unique individual whose career has been, to many people, proof of the Novak, in calling attention to majoritarian biases, however unpleasant they church's social commitment and of the Society's wise tolerance of a creative maverick...

...For several years he ciated...

...now has a healthy sense of humor Printed in the USA and published weekly...

...It's perfectly OK, to be sure, COMMONWEAL A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature and the Arts...

...research grants...

...VIRGIL C. BLUM, S.J...

...Copyright Q 1974 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc...

...in the American city of the late nine- 000 000 000 Another voice was Arnold Lunn teenth and early twentieth centuries...

...about "all that...

...Far from pitting have, thus far, given it the support naturally have a better chance of white ethnics and blacks against each it must have to begin to make our being published...

...by Commonweal Publishing Co., 232 Madison Ave., New York...

...JAMES G. HANINK public issue...

...I am in total agree- in the world...

...We feel that the decision, at least in its The only hope is to persist, like timing and manner of execution, was a mistake...

...In this sense, religious orders are a public trust...

...their spirituality of service, they say they witness to God's loving presence To the Editors...

...significant ownership in stocks, bonds and property...

...Depending on who describes him, he is a and thus, hopefully, be able "to check charming, brilliant, irritating, imprudent, young (36) priest...

...The vaunted community of concern built around issues of human rights, a community JOSEPH O'ROURKE, EX-S.J...

...positions on boards of directors...

...NEWS & VIEWS: 490 CORRESPONDENCE: 491 II1TCE EDITORIALS: 491 GREECE: THE FALL OF THE PHOENIX: Cokie Roberts 493 WASHINGTON REPORT: POST-WATERGATE RECONSTRUCTION-l: Sisyphus 494 Catholic Civil Rights OTHER BOSTONIANS, PROPERLY CONSIDERED: Michael Novak 496 DEATH'S PEDAGOGY: Paul Ramsey 497 THE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...

...attention to social-moral issues...

...if one was a Catholic, so long as one Second class postage paid at New York...

...JR.: Movies JOHN FANDEL: Poetry studies at a secular university to-recog- BRIAN WICKER: Great Britain ALAIN WOODROW: Paris nize that anti-Catholic sentiment is in- HENRY TEN KORTENAAR: Rome JOHN COONEY: Dublin EDWARD S. SKILLIN: Publisher JOHN BRUBAKER: Advertising Manager creasing...

...least, makes the hostility Novak dis- US and Canada...

...except biweekly Christmas-New Year's and June to mid-September...

...It is strange indeed that of their own culture affect the destiny (Continued from page 491) no mention has been made of his passof blacks, just as they still affect white was organized to serve as a Catholtc ing in your magazine...

...If the securing the equal rights of American people are to believe them, their corporate actions must appear as well as minorities...

...acter of the American church...

...10016 One thing in particular, for me at MUrray Hill 3-2042...

...and effective voice in establishing the moral tone and national diversity of the American way of life...

...In the middle of his burgh recently pointed out, are be- own ordination, before embracing Cardinal Terence Cooke, he protested ginning "to stir, to feel set upon, the Cardinal's complicity in the war...

...Impermeable barriers" are indeed keeping both white ethnics and blacks out of executive offices...

...Finally, as a director of a group called Catholics for a Free Commonweal: 491 lower threshold of competition is a Economically and in moral symbolism, society pluralistic in practice as it is in factor he doesn't examine...

...Indeed it seems to be internal workings of one religious order but in many ways the future charunable to comprehend why the issue is even put in these terms...

...Letters for white ethnics...

...They run international networks of schools, universities, misment with Novak's proposal [June 281 sions and parishes supported by the benefices of the rich and the coins of to come to grips with the problem of the generous poor...

...Foreign $17...

...but it is of immense olics have embraced the League and of not more than 250 or 300 words social importance...

...Recently, while visiting a life-prisoner ignored, even badly used and unappre= in Sing Sing, he performed an unauthorized marriage...

...Those "cultural factors" that have estant country...

...Single copies 50c cerns especially dismaying...

...Cannot the superior BUIke G01'a"Tb ficiencies of both the emotional con- ao_ e` NovaK education of Newton and Brookline be taw ~ Codes offered to some of the working-class Irish, Italians and blacks of the inner city alike...

...Thernstrom wor- on the increase" and yet concur fully here on, Thernstrom writes, "American ries about a "white ethnic backlash" with him in the assertion that "in the Negroes may face opportunities and without noticing that such unconscious old days of virulent anti-Catholic conconstraints that are fairly analogous to sympathies as his may be among its viction" Commonweal represented an those experienced by millions of Euro- chief stimulants...

...expenseaccount living...

...whose polemics were disarming to so Passive or structural discrimination and CORRESPONDENCE many especially to those steeped in the distinctive strengths and weaknesses secularism...

...Yet whatever the the "proper Bostonians" continue their "anti-Catholic sentiment is once again differences they faced in the past, from unbroken hegemony...

...and the expulsion of a well-known Jesuit who has become a sign of intelligently organize ourselves," that social justice-as well as a sign of contradiction-affects us all...

...As long as these "other Bos- To the Editors: One may not agree not only in degree, between white ethnic tonians" are pitted against each other, with Michael Novak [June 28] that and black cultures...

...Schooled in the and to chasten monolithic power" and spirit of radical organizer Saul Alinsky as well as the spirit of Saint Ignatius, to make it "pluralistic in practice" and his Jesuit career, which was recently described in the book, These Priests "accountable to all groups in Amer- Stay, has been a string of "actions"-dramatic gestures staged to draw ica...

...intelligent voice capable of calming pean migrants who struggled to survive critics with its reasonable retorts...

...During the Vietnam war he protested by Catholics, as Father Theodore Hes- wrecking the Dow Chemical offices in Washington...

...A year ago the Catholic has been Catholic Coordinator at the Interfaith Center for Corporate League for Religious and Civil Rights Responsibility, trying to get churches to focus their investment policies on (Continued on page 511) social ills...

...15 a year...

...full professorships...

...There are differences in kind, important cultural differences, between white ethnics and blacks in Boston and elsewhere...

...JAMES O'GARA: Editor JOHN DEEDY: Managing Editor One need only be pursuing graduate RAYMOND A. SCHROTH: Associate Editor ANNE ROBERTSON: Editorial Assistant COLIN L. WESTERBECK...

...He proposes that we "more be just...

...Why add to the depow, , Mars~'B" flicts of busing...

...THESE THREE: FAITH, HOPE AND DEATH: James Finn 504 To the Editors: Michael Novak's sober- BOOKS: Gerald Weales, Thomas Powers 507 ing "Jewish Agenda, Catholic Agenda" ILLUSTRATIONS: Front cover, King Death, Diirer [June 28] is, I think, exactly right...

...d`sbO 9a aeset~es Ot np~ aNin9 Na o a~ ~-aw re Both white ethnics and blacks in ur- d%4%V% tt`aI in Pfese . t the a ro8 ban Boston, meanwhile are getting in- aobelt M W a$ -0w ferior education...

...But religious orders claim more for themselves and the sign value of their lives...

...By their vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and Milwaukee, Wisc...

...are, and continue to work for a society that recognizes the dignity of If the Jesuits were merely a private club like the Union League or a human beings at every stage of their secret society like the Masons, a member's dismissal would hardly be a development...

...In these t6`nesthe aYs`SPbatt`tadeeP~y e0VOCg`Ve es o~nts abO nter, matters, there can be trade-offs, deals, Ok,Nt% mutual assurances...

...that has been the focus of many Catholics for the last decade, gives precious In expelling the controversial political activist, Father Joseph O'Rourke, little evidence of recognizing why S.J., from the Society of Jesus within less than two weeks of his performing Catholics are struggling for the lives an unauthorized baptism in Marlboro, Massachusetts, the Jesuit superiors in New York and Rome have made a decision that concerns not just the of the unborn...

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...this is still too unvarying a white Prot- rhetoric...

...It cannot do the is masked by an excess of sympathy whole job of checking and chastening . Commonweal welcomes letters on for blacks and a stinginess of sympathy monolithic power, but American Cath- subjects treated in its pages...

...anti-defamation league, and a Catholic MARSH CUNNINGHAM This conclusion about cultural factors civil rights union...