NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS Humor Is Out The non-place of humor in the Catholic press has been demonstrated again, this time in Brooklyn. For some years, The Tablet, the diocesan newspaper, has marked...
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...He led a charge against Tablet editor Don Zirkel, accusing him of having "a queer sense of humor" and vowing to make "The Pill" an issue for the Senate...
...And limericks: "Some readers can't swallow The Pill/ Without getting traditionally chill./ They're so theologically rigid/ And devotionally frigid/ That it makes them religiously ill...
...There were features, like: "What would happen if Nixon came back in the next life as Archie Bunker . . . if Howard Cosell came back as Bishop Sheen . . . if the editor of The Tablet came back as President of the U.S...
...It is obviously not worth the upset it caused...
...Some people chuckled, but 'The Pill' offended others...
...The government responded by charging the eight with a variety of offenses, ranging from violation of parole to harassing a diplomatic installation...
...We choose to stand with the 200,000 political prisoners who fill the Saigon jails, with the 300 Buddhist monks fasting to the death in opposition to that imprisonment, and with all others who struggle for liberation at the peril of their freedom or their lives," said the statement of the group...
...In fact, the name "The Pill, A Little Tablet" originated in 1946, long before the birth-control pill was talked about...
...Paul's tapes about submissive women would be found to have several gaps, which would be filled in by the new First Lady...
...He terminated the fast after the archdiocese announced it was voiding plans to turn a $525,000 mansion in embassy row into an official residence for Archbishop William W. Baum...
...9 In Washington, Paulist Father Edward Guinan extended a water-only fast into 24 days, as he sought a $10 million commitment from the Archdiocese of Washington for the poorest of the poor of the area...
...Philoprudentia parish featuring "a Latin Mass, complete with deacon, subdeacon, Sisters in habits, three collections, Kiss of Peace (for priests only, of course) and Benediction...
...Catholic Activists Witness by protest and civil disobedience is no vanished phenomenon in American Catholicism, however quiet the scene may appear from scanning the media...
...The eight included Jesuit Father Edward J. Murphy, Jesuit seminarian Mike Bucci, Judy Peluso of the Sisters of Charity, Father Jack Egan of Jersey City, and activists Debbie Daniell, Mitch Snyder, Tesi Kohlenberg and Peter Seiferd...
...Their prevailing view tonight was that Pope Paul seemed to be reverting to the old Vatican thesis of the internationalization of Jerusalem...
...Therefore it will not be published anymore...
...Hofmann reported the amendment of a remark by Pope Paul on the future of Jerusalem at a weekly general audience that he said "seemed to indicate a hardened policy on the politically sensitive issue...
...For the good of the church and the peace of the Christian community, 'The Pill' is dead," Zirkel wrote in his editorial-page column...
...But two weeks later, he backed away, apologizing profusely...
...It had the Pope calling for "an appropriate statute with international guarantees for the holy city of Jerusalem and a convenient juridical guardianship for the holy places...
...Ironically, what put many backs up in the air was the name of the supplement, which they associated with the contraceptive...
...In a church that preaches joy, I think there is room for chuckles, too," he said to the Daily News...
...Others, however, were not amused, including Father Joseph Coyne, pastor of St...
...In his address the Pope advocated an "appropriate international juridical guardianship for the holy places" in the Middle East, and deplored that Jerusalem was still at the center of controversy...
...Wrote Hofmann: "Diplomats and reporters have learned to analyze every word in papal pronouncements to the point of hairsplitting...
...9 In Colorado, three priests and five lay persons heisted American flags from seven Catholic churches in late March, charging that their presence in sanctuaries undermined "the universality md transnationalism" of Christianity, and was a "tainted" symbol of nationalism...
...Vatican and I s r a e l Inferences in Henry ten Kortenaar's Commonweal article of March 8 to the effect that current Vatican diplomacy still calls for the internationalization of Jerusalem drew rebuttals from Father Edward H. Flannery of the Secretariat for CatholicJewish Relations in last week's correspondence columns, and from Dr...
...For some years, The Tablet, the diocesan newspaper, has marked April Fool's Day with an insert entitled "The Pill, A Little Tablet," a gentle spoof poking fun at Catholics in the manner of a communion-breakfast MC, back when communion breakfasts were in vogue...
...The blood-pouring--which involved people from the Thomas Merton Life Center in New York, Jonah House in Baltimore, and the Community for Creative NonViolence in Washington-was intended as an act of solidarity...
...In the afternoon, however, the bulletin was withdrawn and another substituted...
...Virilius parish that women would fall short as priests because "most of them are rotten golfers, and they wouldn't be physically capable of dragging a complete set of golf clubs the length of 18 holes...
...In the last category: "St...
...Media thought the spoof hilarious, and "The Pill" got pick-up in the New York Daily News, on radio and at least one news service...
...In four tabloid pages, "The Pill" informed of: 9 An Old Timers' Weak at St...
...This year was no exception...
...The same wording appeared later in the bulletin distributed daily for the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications...
...Zirkel at first seemed determined to stand his ground...
...But an April 10 New York Times dispatch from Rome correspondent Paul Hofmann indicates that ten Kortenaar may not be so far off the mark, as charged...
...9 A prediction by the pastor of St...
...Also, "a Legion of Decency A-I movie at Baltimore Catechism class, a blackface minstrel show and Three Hours of Passionate Agony...
...9 In Washington and New York on Good Friday, a total of eight persons were arrested and arraigned on felonies for pouring blood in the offices of the Vietnam Overseas Procurement Office and the South Vietnam Mission to the U.N., respectively...
...Joseph L. Lichten in this issue...
...Jude's in Canarsie and a member of the Priests' Senate...
Vol. 100 • May 1974 • No. 9
