PERSISTERS FOR PEACE
True, Michael
The kidnapping and "conversion" of a son or daughter of the upper class is a popular revolutionary fantasy. Jack London included it in his socialistic apocalyptic novel The Iron Heel in 1906, and...
...It was a somber note, in the midst of celebration, combining a sense of a common purpose with the realization of the hard work ahead...
...It is only recently that some journalists are suggesting in print what many have suspected from the beginning: that Miss Hearst may be an accomplice in her own "kidnapping...
...Other speakers and resource people conducting seminars on war tax resistance and on starting and developing communities of resistance, peace and justice, included activists from nonviolent campaigns against war over the past ten years: Jim Forest, member of the Milwaukee 14 and now editor of Fellowship magazine...
...Jack London included it in his socialistic apocalyptic novel The Iron Heel in 1906, and the New York Post reporters have discovered a recent pornographic novel whose plot parallels the Hearst case much too closely...
...28, 1973], Thomas Gumbleton, auxiliary bishop of Detroit, said that the work of the CPF must be nothing less than the conversion of the Church, including the bishops, to the deeper truths of Christ, to the forgiving, reconciling, and authentic nonviolence of His life and message...
...A tiger cage, similar to the ones paid for and built by American tax dollars and now used to hold political prisoners in South Vietnam, greeted registrants as they arrived...
...Sister Mary Dooley, S.S.J., set the tone for the recent day-long conference in her welcoming address: "We are here," she told representatives of eight states and the District of Columbia, "to reflect upon Christ, who teaches us to be just and to proclaim the good news of justice...
...As in the past, the war in Indochina occupied a central place in the proceedings...
...Taking as a reference Gordon C. Zahn's article on "The Future of the Catholic Peace Movement" [Commonweal, Dec...
...And in calling attention to the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Catholic Peace Fellowship, an educational service conducted by the Catholic members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, speakers made frequent reference to the encyclicals of John XXIII and Paul VI, especially his phrase "peace through justice," and to those Catholics whose daily lives proclaimed "the good news of justice": Peter Maurin, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Ammon Hennacy...
...Meanwhile, it seems hard to believe that the FBI, and perhaps the press, with all their sources of information, do not know where she is...
...THE EDITORS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CPF MEETING PERSISTEBS FOR PEACE If the Catholic peace movement is dispersed and dispirited, as some observers have said, the group assembled on March 23 in western Massachusetts seemed not to have heard the pessimistic news...
...There was never a person"wneither the beggar on the road to Jericho, nor the children, nor the 26 April 1974:180 sinners, whom Christ's friends tried to keep from Him --"who was not worth His time...
...The SLA has released the Patricia Hearst tapes through Paeifica radio station KPFA and other messages through the underground press...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PHILIP LEGLER QUICKSILVER TRING Small-boned quicksilver thing you are rising full-length naked in your looking glass Are you offering . me strange breasts swaying or floating somewhere on pink toe shoes turning those thighs to the world Have I seen passing your reflection that deep secret room you live in :done Mirror girl my shiny daughter over dreamy shoulders have you caught me today watching you drift away Commonweal: 181...
...Both local and national TV have carried stories on the mythical "army" and the "People in Need" food program with very little hard critical information...
...And now there is grim speculation that the whole affair will end more tragically than originally intended and that a lot of people will be left with painful questions about how they behaved from the beginning...
...Following Bishop Gumbleton's opening remarks, six workshop leaders addressed themselves to specific issues, reflecting the work that many of the attendants were already involved in...
...George V. Higgins, crime novelist and former assistant United States district attorney from Massachusetts, (New York Times, April 14) reasons that it is strange that the culprits took time to pick up her purse on the way and that they took so long in stating their demands...
...The proper work of the conference was, Bishop Gumbleton said, "to challenge you and myself to act on the conviction that peace is possible, that peace is a duty...
...From a modest beginning ("It all started when we puttered around four years ago," according to Sister Elizabeth Hillman, R.C...
...Catholic High School and this year at the Motherhouse of the Sisters of St...
...MICHAEL TRUE (Michael True, a previous contributor, is a member o] the English Department, Assumption College, Worcester, Mass...
...In pursuit of "the third way," neither the way of violence, nor the way of passivity--a negative term, suggesting non-action, according to one speaker--the meeting addressed itself to the question of priorities, particularly during the coming year...
...And in a special workshop on political prisoners, Father Robert Manning, S.J., chaplain at Holy Cross College, emphasized the continued involvement of the United States government in South Vietnam since the cease-fire, which he observed in his visit to Indochina during Holy Week, 1973...
...We are left to speculate on whether Patricia's emotional alienation from her family was deep enough to dispose her to join with the SLA or whether she is sophisticated enough to feign cooperation to keep herself alive...
...There have been a few background stories on Patricia's early life and interviews with her fianc6, who is now being grilled by the FBI, but we still know very little about them...
...the picketline--"a prayer in action," as Dolores Huerta called it--provided a realistic link to the nonviolent resistance referred to throughout the day...
...Joseph in Holyoke, Massachusetts--over 300 members and fellow travelers of the Catholic Peace Fellowship gathered together to rededicate themselves to various issues of peace and justice, to celebrate their association with one another, and to learn about the political concerns that have become a part of their religious lives in recent years...
...That sentiment was repeated frequently, from the morning scripture reading to the homily by Dolores Huerta in the afternoon liturgy...
...the annual meeting of the CPF in New England has become a significant event for a loose coalition of Catholic anti-war people, with the help and resources provided by the American Friends Service Committee and other peace organizations...
...In the face of the many issues related directly to peace --the end of war, the elimination of the draft---Bishop Gumbleton challenged the Catholic Peace Fellowship not to narrow its focus too greatly, not to forget such overriding problems as the development of peoples, the distribution of food, the terrible imbalance in the world's goods, where even in the United States, "one-fifth of the people are kept poor and deprived...
...In the Hearst case the press itself seems to have become an instrument in the kidnappers' plot...
...In his opening address, Gumbleton called attention to various episodes that indicated Christ's deep respect for the individual human life, to enemy as well as friend...
...Obedience to these priorities, the ones that Christ responded to during His own life, rather than obedience to bishops or the established order, he said, must be the work of the Catholic peace movement in the years ahead...
...Tom Cornell, of the CPF, and John Bach, of Jonah House, Baltimore----~th veterans of Danbury, Conn., Federal Prison, where they were sentenced for draft resistance...
...We are pleased to announce a series of columns, beginning this week on page 182, written by Abigail McCarthy, author of Private Faces/Public Places (Doubleday...
...In seizing the daughter of a Hearst the kidnappers have seized the media: Hearst papers, the AP and UPI have printed the propaganda of the so-called Symbionese Liberation Army all over the country and the news--perhaps understandablywhas been managed in the interests of the Hearst family...
...For the second straight yearwlast spring at Waterbury (Conn...
...Also central to the proceedings were "how to" workshops on alternative life styles, including special urban ministries by women religious (Sisters of Mercy, Providence, R.I., and Sisters of Notre Dame, in Connecticut and Maryland) and a dedication to arts and crafts, eloquently described by Ade Bethune, Catholic Worker painter and calligrapher...
...At lunch time, fifty conference attendants put their newly acquired knowledge about the United Farm Workers' struggle to work by picketing a local A & P, a holdout on the current boycott against non-union lettuce...
Vol. 100 • April 1974 • No. 8
