NEWS & VIEWS:

NEWS & the warmth and cold of vast Since 1969, the Sisterhoods and have at their command a regions of the earth, as...

...nitely, particularly in North Look at all the American America...
...munities and the upgrading according to the Parisian that account for new weather If the situation does not of the professional and apos- journal Information Cathopatterns, not just in Asia and right itself, the effects could tolic competencies of the liques Internationales: Africa, where the monsoon be "massively tragic," ac- Sisters...
...tive rise in the formation of ed, "there remain in the much of expatriate Irish writAccording to Alexander's Sisters and a mushrooming Church in France no less ers anyway...
...He en- According to a survey by Catholic bishop living in freeEngland, where a cooling visions persistent droughts in the director of the study- dom (except perhaps in setrend has allegedly shortened Central Africa, the Middle center Economie et Human- cret...
...Well," lar vortex"-the meeting of said a spokesman, "I guess the westerly winds and the since this is a Catholic colpolar air mass, which sends lege, we'll have to turn the out "waves" and determines other cheek...
...Russian Bishops some drastic climate changes tex is acting a little as though Seen offsetting this, howare occurring globally...
...he noted...
...NEWS & the warmth and cold of vast Since 1969, the Sisterhoods and have at their command a regions of the earth, as well have lost 9,200 members social and professional comVIEWS as which get rain and which (from 109,900 in 1969 to petence which constitute live don't...
...as good as the past 15 - A reporter for the "is about one in 10,000...
...The world One effect predicted for the went important changes over illegal exercise of his Cathomay be only passing through United States is a return of the past several years...
...Bishop ing counter-opinion, however, grain production and contrib- fewer nurses and teachers, Sloskans of Mohilev, (80), check out Tom Alexander's ute to flooding as far distant the number of family work- in Louvain, and Bishop Sipopiece in the February For- as the Mississippi Valley...
...ers, infant-care specialists, vic (60), ordinary of exiled tune...
...lic ministry...
...religious houses have closed ciety and the Church...
...While there are Latin rite, in Rome...
...The warmish winters 100,700 in 1973), and the forces of the first importance in the Eastern U.S...
...He rustles up some What do you do about all therapists, social workers, Byelorussians, in London...
...received a religious formation selves, to stand a bit apart century has been the most from their source, and I think benign of any period in at that if so many have emileast a thousand years-much grated to England, it's choice too blessed to last indefi- rather than necessity...
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...There is no longer a single rains have detoured, but in cording to Alexander...
...religious life in France under- kowski, arrested in 1969 for right, of course...
...Yonkers Herald Statesman The change in weather called Manhattan College to patterns is ascribed in the inquire whether the school main to the vagaries of what had a policy for dealing with scientists call the "circumpo- potential streakers...
...Four others live a nasty weather phase, one heavier rainfall in the West- "The number of higher abroad in exile: Cardinal that will right itself next year, ern plains and the Rocky professional degrees and of Slipyj (82) and Bishop Katnext week, tomorrow...
...Mountain states, a circum- elementary-school diplomas koff (58), prelates of the If you want some sober- stance that could cut down has increased...
...Most it were winter all year round, ever, are the establishment of The Catholic episcopacy is prefer to think that it is refusing to contract poleward more than 1,000 pocket com- virtually extinct in the USSR, merely temporary phenomena and smooth itself out...
...In hoods reveals a sharp drop religious communities, and ship is on its way out...
...It still this context, Alexander re- over the last four years in the also found that a majority of exists but it's a dying animal, called last August's eight-inch number of Sisters and reli- French Sisters are over age a bureaucratic vestige, and snow on the western wheat gious houses, but a qualita- 50...
...Nevertheless, he conclud- I think people make too fields of Canada...
...And even now...
...U.S...
...past few years are seen due from 1,399 to 519...
...around yet to taking seriously The difficulty appears to or regrouped, principally the warnings of scientists that be that "the circumpolar vor- schools, hospices and clinics...
...At the available to dedicate themto a southward projection of same time no less than 1,435 selves to the service of soNot many have gotten one of these waves...
...It's in the nature research, the weather for of small communities com- than 30,000 Sisters who have of writers to detach themnearly half of the current prising four or five nuns...
...strong scientific theories that this...
...to the inhospitable weather of Father Luchini recorded a -Irish playwright Brian the last century, when mid- Sisters in France tendency among Sisters to Friel on Irish censorship and summer snows were known take jobs in private enter- the put-upon Irish writer: to devastate New England A study of French Sister- prises independent of their "Oh, that ridiculous censoragriculture on occasion...
...One remains in prison, the average growing season East and India, and contin- isme, Father Luchini, one- the former auxiliary of Cardiby two weeks since 1950...
...ued cooling trends in areas fifth of the Sisters in active nal Slipyj, Bishop WelytchThe minimizers may be of the Northern Hemisphere...
...bility of getting another 15 Nobody speaks of them as consecutive years" in the exiles...
...over the number of novices is down in so far as they are totally Whither the Weather...
...He cites one scien- writers who lived in Europe tist as saying that "the proba- in the '20s...
...You hope the climatol- practicing psychologists and the world is returning, if not ogists are all wet-and you nurses' aides has multiplied," Odds and Ends to a new little ice age, then cross your fingers for luck...

Vol. 100 • March 1974 • No. 4


 
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