NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS Liturgy & Women On March 15, the female co-chaplain of Boston University's Newman House made several attempts to find a priest to perform a noonday Mass, the male...
...Chancery's tough stance made the March service and Sister Fitzgerald's resignation a cause c~l~bre in the Boston area, and naturally the media hopped all over the story...
...The stationery inscription of the 7th Combat Support Group (SAC), Carswell Air Force Base, Texas: "Peace . . . is our Profession...
...If the House Judiciary Committee issues a favorable report on impeachment of Nixon, no more than 80 members of Congress will vote against it...
...Newton College of the Sacred Heart, in Massachusetts, will cease to operate as an independent institution and be absorbed into Boston College effective June 30...
...Marylhurst cited "declining enrollments and rising costs...
...It is nothing of the kind," Ackroyd wrote TLS...
...It is not a usurping of the authority of priests...
...This review seems to locate American poetry within the dry 'main-stream' of the English tradition...
...We simply did not envision such a rapid rise in the cost of paper, ink and other production materials," Dr...
...American P o e t r y Peter Ackroyd, literary editor of The Spectator, chides the Times Literary Supplement for its put-down of "new American poetry" as being "poetry by the yard...
...He noted that paper alone had risen 40 percent in cost, and declared there would be "substantial" price increases for curriculum materials and other printed goods reflected in the fall catalogue...
...The United Methodist Publishing House handles all the educational and interpretative material for the 10.3 million member United Methodist Church, and does some of the printing for the United Presbyterian Church and the United Church of Christ...
...This may be because the fashionable English poets stopped dead in their tracks at that particular point...
...It got immediately up-tight on hearing of the service, and forced Sister Fitzgerald's resignation from the university assignment on the grounds that she had said Mass...
...Such questions have not only been raised in our beloved country, but they have reached a point where there is a critical need for restoration of confidence in governmental values in all their ethical aspects...
...Sister Fitzgerald conceded she has no authority to say Mass, but pointed out that if indeed she had celebrated one, as accused, it would prove that a woman is capable of performing that liturgical rite--which seemed a neat turning of foil against foiler...
...It is not a consecration sort of thing," Sister Fitzgerald said by phone from Boston of the service...
...NEWS & VIEWS Liturgy & Women On March 15, the female co-chaplain of Boston University's Newman House made several attempts to find a priest to perform a noonday Mass, the male chaplain being away that day on business in Washington...
...It is, of course, the issue of women's role in the liturgy that underscored Chancery reaction...
...D-Mass...
...An aside in an Overview newsletter report on today's typical seminarian: "he is only half joking when he says Humanae Vitae is the Puerto Rican third baseman for L.A...
...A Bishop Speaks Up The vast majority of the Catholic bishops of the country are laying low on the impeachment question...
...There is no recognition of the now historical fact that American poetry has advanced beyond the work of Lowell, Plath and their respective imitators...
...And on Aug...
...He joined in a 10-1 vote of the Nashville Priests' Senate calling for the initiation of impeachment proceedings against Nixon...
...Pressing the advantage, Sister Fitzgerald added in B.U.'s Daily Free Press that she believed there was no "theological or intrinsic reason why a woman could not be ordained a priest...
...Unsuccessful, the co-chaplain-Sister Gloria Fitzgerald of the Sisters of St...
...More Publishing Woes Escalating costs in the printing trade are causing an "economic nightmare" for the Nashville-based United Methodist Publishing House, according to the firm's president, Dr...
...31, Marylhurst College, an 81-yearold institution in Portland, Oregon, will lock its gates...
...31, but net income ran about $500,000 below what would be expected from such sales...
...College Closings The bells have tolled for two more Catholic women's colleges...
...Odds and Ends --The prediction of House Majority Leader Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr...
...Sales were up to $19.5 million for the six-month period ending Jan...
...Procter said...
...The paradox is that the communal service of sharing that caused a flap in ostensibly progressive Boston is fairly common, authorized or otherwise, in a number of allegedly conservative dioceses, including New York--where Sister Fitzgerald, 23 years a religious, once served at Emmaus House...
...JOHN DEED~ 26 April 1974:178...
...There is no reference to the recent collections of the poetry of Frank O'Hara, whose voice is the most powerful to have emerged in recent years...
...Its materials are distributed from the Cokesbury Division of the publishing house...
...You can follow its steps only by being pedestrian...
...Procter said that two Cokesbury retail stores have been closed in 1974 because of continuing losses--in Seattle and Boston...
...Christians in the power of Baptism can share together...
...John E. Procter...
...Rebutting TLS' article of March 29, he continued: "There is no mention of the recently published work of John Ashbery, James Schuyler or Ed Dorn, who are substantial and influential poets...
...Newton College, spiraling operating costs and unmanageable debts...
...It is an ancient tradition that religious leaders have a duty to raise their voices whenever matters of justice and integrity are questioned in the land," Bishop Durick stated...
...There is no examination of the recent work of certain younger American poets, such as John Koethe and David Shapiro, who are treating the language with a new resourcefulness...
...Not Bishop Joseph A. Durick of Nashville...
...Their problems are typical of those affecting many colleges without heavy endowments or substantial state subsidies...
...Not to the liking of the Boston Chancery, however...
...Ursula --proceeded to conduct a service of Christian community, one involving the structure of the liturgy, bread and wine, but not conceived by her as being a Mass...
Vol. 100 • April 1974 • No. 8
