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...For example, Dozier was not the "first" bishop to address NAL...
...The author is James Burtchaell, Provost of Notre Dame University...
...As it stands, the quotation is an absolute fabrication which violates the most elementary canons of intellectual decency...
...Ferkiss believes is a creator who then departed and left men to work out their own destinies unhampered by further manifestations of His power or by reminders that only He, in time's fullness, can perfect all things...
...it is deep, very deep: who can find it out...
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...Ferkiss' work by quoting more fully the two passages from which came phrases linked by me: 1. "This new world culture, despite its varied traditional components, *ill end the dichotomy between science "and humanism, mind and body, matter and spirit, East and West, tradition and 20 December 1974:274 modernity...
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...As for Dan Dick's comments, frustration did not build and build in me during the convention...
...Its efficacy Castelli admits: "These [NAL] reports were cursed, attacked . . . and listened to by Church officials...
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...To the Editors: NAWR's president, S. Fisher, put it very well ["Correspondence", 1 Nov.]: 'Where's a danger in bringing one's own agenda to some one else's convention . . . . " How applicable to your report on the 1974 Convention of the National Association of Laity (NAL) 1 Nov...
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...If there is a legacy for NAL it should be remembered for its days as a critic rigorously examining church stands on issues of war and peace, race and class, life and death...
...Revelation" is interesting, although there is no dialogue with J. Barr concerning the validity of this category, and it ends with an introductory thumbnail sketch of each prophet...
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...The "models" were admittedly my own phrases...
...Catholic intellectuals like Kiing, Pfuertner, D'Avack, O'Rourke, Fitzgerald...
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...Seven categories are suggested as the ways in which Israel experienced Yahweh, and these form the chapter headings: cult, revelation, history, nature, wisdom, political and social institutions, the future of Israel...
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...Small wonder that they were forced to subsist on a diet of unpolished rice, swamp cabbage, and tiny fish the children seine from a nearby river...
...To the Editors: And so, the National Association of Laity is gone [Nov...
...Ferkiss is not an atheist, but I stand by my reading of his work: God has no place in his world...
...In fact, I've heard from former NALers that they were sorry to see NAL die, but even sorrier that it wasn't allowed to die with dignity...
...His new superior at NC labeled it "mickey-mouse...
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...To the Editors: It must be tough to be both a lay person and a reporter when covering a national meeting of lay people (National Association of Laity in Washington in October...
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...In so doing it will help heal the split between man and nature, humanity and earth...
...The infancy narratives of Matthew and Luke, no matter what their historical character, would seem to contradict this, from a theological point of view...
...283) 2. "Human beings are the highest form of life the earth has produced, but they hold their mother planet not as property in the liberal sense, but in trust to the cosmos, in stewardship for human generations to come and for the forces of life which some call God...
...I remember well those heady days back at the beginning in Minneapolis . . . the great debate with Charles Davis in Chicago . . . the convention at Cleveland...
...The f a c t i s that the nature and quality of the program was probably the best NAL has ever put on...
...DANIEL E. DICK Vice-President, NAL Reply Washington, D. C. To the Editors: I'm fascinated by Joe Skehan's fascination with who pays my salary, his incoherence and his ability to completely misstate facts...
...But always those actions followed careful and extended debate...
...In 1970 it published the first survey of dioceses' financial statements...
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...Schoenwald might just as well have written down all the words in the book on file cards and rearranged them at random to represent my views...
...In the words of one utopian theorist, 'the real world is itself transcendent, when it is Seen integrally, as a holistic and dynamic system.' Piety toward planet Earth will thus simultaneously promote consciousness of the community between man and nature and consciousness of the transnational community among men...
...127) Man, man, man--man alone in the natural world--can and will save himself...
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...through some sort of organization like NAL and I have no doubt one will rise up...
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...Being a member of this organization for seven years, and an active participant in the annual meetings, I found that Jim's words echoed my thoughts and my hopes for honest reporting...
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...It fails to assess the wisdom movement in Israel as a multifaceted affair, a growth...
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...Piety toward planet Earth' adequately acknowledges 'the forces of life which some call God.'" Wow...
...If the NAL is to resurrect, it must work along with these healthy trends--not against them...
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...I grew up with NAL, along with the National Catholic Reporter and Commonweal...
...I did not report in 1973 that "about a hundred" people attended the meeting...
...Goodbye, I think we've been saying to all that...
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...emon's Problem" in the November 15 Commonweal, through a typographical error, the author's name was misspelled...
...CasteUi now corrects some earlier errors...
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...With good fortune, the United Nations will also survive the coming .and going of Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasir Ararat, although his visit and its aftermath becloud the UN's future as much as any upsetting' event in its 29-year history...
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...in the longer range, it threatens the viability of the UN itself by undercutting its charter as an organization of states (as distinct from pressure groups and anti-states) and by polarizing the so-called third world as a bloc unto itself...
...There he was, sitting quiet as a mouse for a day and a half, with all those searing thoughts racketing around in his head...
...But if he has not chosen to do this, he has clearly and ably summarized his views on Old Testament theology in the volume under review...
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...More immediately the Ararat appearance poses a threat in the world body to the recognition of Israel as a state with legitimate rights to existence...
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...And I'm glad to hear what an influence NAL had on the good bishop--I'm sure he'll be glad to hear about it, too...
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...Why didn't your reporter ask in 19737) Since 1968 NAL's devised various tactics to open all church finances...
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...My views on the connection between theology and pol{tical theory are perhaps best represented by the passage in the book which reads: "The medieval scholastic concept of natural law . . . was essentially sound in recognizing that creation was a manifestation of divinity and that, leaving aside questions of 'eternal salvation,' all men regardless of their theologies or lack thereof can, by (Continued on page 274) NEWS & VIEWS: 250 CORRESPONDENCE: 251 EDITORIALS: 251 WASHINGTON: The Winter of Our Discontent: Sisyphus 252 IS THE SYSTEM REFORMABLE?: Peter J. Henriot 254 MAKING NO HASTE SLOWLY: Harry W. Flannery 256 DEMOCRACY COMES HOME: Cokie Roberts 257 HISTORICAL ORTHODOXY: Michael Novak 259 CHRISTMAS IN POETRY: John Druska 249 THE WAR SYNDICATE: Douglas Mattern 263 FOOD FOR THE IVORLD: Martin M. McLaughlin 266 VERSE: Madeleine Mysko 258 TRE SCREEN" Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
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...Schoenwald's "quotation" is to imply to all my friends who read Commonweal that I am now an atheist adds injury to insult...
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...It was too bad for your readers that the comprehensive and excellent program, the material and thoughts of the fine speakers, the information on people issues the world over, which NAL was able to arrange for, was completely passed over...
...I also don't think my article was vicious...
...Childs' concern is biblical theology--the theology of the entire Bible, both Testaments, analyzed from an unabashed Christian viewpoint...
...Even Qohelet, that representative of "anti-wisdom," admitted: "I said, 'I will acquire...
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...NAL has survived the cursing, "mickey mouse" ~t la NC, and will go on despite "burying" b. la Castelli or other similar attempts magically to exorcise the gadfly and all its works...
...In 1970 Castelli called it in NCR: "NAL: Too Little Too Late...
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...Holding that God exists when one is so utterly committed to human perfectibility becomes, by comparison, an interesting but not very important belief...
...I would like to see it grow, thrive and otherwise influence the church, I know what some of its people have gone through...
...he didn't present and NAL never studied any "Dozier model...
...The assessment may strike some as being overly pessimistic.Yet it is impossible not to be pessimistic about the viability of the UN when General Assembly status is conveyed as casually as it was upon the PLO...
...Castelli now admits he's wanted to bury NAL at least since 1972, date .of NAL's second report on bishops' finances and four studies on abortion...
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...His views on the three models set forth were interesting and enlightening...
...To the Editors: I am willing to agree that Mr...
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...To the Editors: Jim Castelli's article in your November 1st issue on the NAL was a breath of clean air...
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...The treatment of the cult provides more or less the data supplied in McKenzie's earlier Dictionary o~ the Bible...
...McKenzie disclaims any attempt to write an Old Testament theology on the scale of W. Eichrodt or G. yon Rad (p...
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...I knew it was coming, but it took Jim Castelli's article to bring the reality homel TOM OILSENAN Baltimore, Md...
...McKenzie's claim is to have written an Old Testament theology "as if the New Testament did not exist" (p...
...I shared some of my thoughts with NAL people I knew and found these people were thinking some of them too...
...Ferkiss believes in a God well known to historians of ideas, the God who withdraws as men then set about engineering their own salvation...
...And what once was has slipped away...
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...then, with your Jim Castelli, frustration builds and builds and finally comes spilling out in the vicious article printed in your issue of November 1. It was too bad for us in NAL that what he had to say was said only after the fact...
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...But so many of those involved in the genesis of NAL moved on to other things...
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...This proceeds from a faith position and its validity is then to be tested by its methodology, whether it is an honest assessment of meaning and dialectic between the two Testaments...
...Ben Sira is barely adverted to) and critical wisdom (Job and Ecclesiastes), or "anti-wisdom...
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...it is part of wisdom...
...I learned a great,deal and, in the process, was able to have personal contact with people who have translated their commitment and concern into positive acts for the betterment of our lives and our world...
...McKenzie indicates that he would not share Childs' views about continuities .between the two Testaments: "the unity which exists in continuity does not exist and cannot be shown" (p...
...The NAL, again like the institutional church so many times in the past, shows itself unable to deal with constructive criticism...
...There is a big difference between making a professional judgment that something is dying and expecting it to die and wanting it to die...
...I had just started college when NAL began...
...We cannot continue to send "hate mail"mthere are other avenues to explore...
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...I may have been in error about the number of active locals but that's what I was told by a number of people at the convention, and there weren't that many...
...Yet there are statements that need nuancing, such as the claim that "there is no messianism in the New Testament which is derived from the Old Testament" (p...
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...The reviewer is as little impressed with this strain of thought as the author is, but it is present...
...There is room for both approaches, McKenzie's and Childs...
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...The final chapter on "the future of Israel" ineorporates many of the insights offered by the author in previous writings...
...Letters o] not more than 250 or 300 words naturally have a better chance o/ being published...
...It is impossible not to be pessimistic when an avowed terrorist, gun holster bulging under jacket, can walk into the UN and be accorded chief-of-state s t a t u s . . , or when humanitarian agencies such as UNESCO become vehicles of political reprisal, as UNESCO has become in the instance of Israel...
...But NJ did press its law suit against the archdiocese and set up the orphanage the diocese tried to liquidate...
...We must listen and discuss matters with leaders such as Bishop Dozier, Eugene Bianchi, and Jack Yorke...
...end discrimination against women in the church...
...And it produced for NAL one of its major studies of the year, i.e., on confession and first communion...
...Unfortunately, no notice is taken of G. yon Rad's important study of 1970, Wisdom in Israel...
...I would love to see it thriving, but it is not...
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...But for a supposed historian, writing in a traditionally Catholic journal, not to be able to relate to what I was saying only illustrates the fact that the future is dark indeed and it is not the allegedly totalitarian villains like myself who are making it so...
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...The organization survived, of course--not always the stronger but in some respects wiser for the sobering lesson that respect is seldom universal...
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...But must it take 4 years for any reporter in the Ameri20 December 1974:276 can culture to see why prelates should report openly all the funds they hold "in trust...
...Acting as a spokesman, NAL, through its efforts-unique in some areas--has been responsible in part for those few "healthier trends" Castelli professes to see in "the American hierarchy...
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...and the last paragraph stating, "the American hierarchy has shown some healthy trends," certainly backs up my repeatedly forceful statements to some members of NAL who hate all members of the hierarchy...
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...In NCR last year he reported "about a hundred" came to the NAL Convention...
...Maybe, in our society, we used to think numbers and a highly organized effort on the model of the big American corporation was the only way to be a success...
...NAL's 1974 convention added new board members from Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Phila., Athens (Ga...
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...First, from all I can tell, Bishop Dozier was the first bishop to publicly address the NAL, and if he wasn't, Skehan doesn't say who was...
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...the Jesuit "secret trial" of O'Rourke...
...But when young graduates and college students (or mature high schoolstudents) are introduced to Commonweal, they meet a magazine that takes them seriously...
...It was good to read him, to see in print the truth about the National Association of Laity...
...But both NCR and NC have tried to downplay NAL's "open finances" project since 1970...
...It appeals to their intelligence and common sense...
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...NCR reported it, yet your NCR/NC reporter says: "no reports or critiques in the past year...
...One may express regret over this, since there is no one on the American scene more gifted and more able than he to offer an interesting challenge and option in this area...
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...Castelli (ex-NCR, now NC) can't cram NAL's aims and programs into his "models" without producing a "non-report" permeated with fantasy, distortions and non-facts...
...The UN is fully within its rights in adopting positions of censure and in issuing sanctions against a member state, and it has done so a number of times: against Rhodesia, Portugal, South Africa and others...
...All good work, important work, but has the iron corset on people's souls ever loosened up once they accepted the lacing in...
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...I also never "admitted" I "wanted" to bury NAL...
...Despite several pages in the book on this subject the reviewer seems to have been unable to grasp the point that I was not writing a theological treatise but a book about politics...
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...Happily a year after addressing NAL, his Grace set up a diocesan pastoral council in Memphis...
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...I've never written anything negative about the studies, and I didn't even work for NCR in 1970...
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...But neither does a study of Old Testament theology (conceived, as this book properly is, on the level of historical criticism) provide adequate perspective for analyzing the roles of (and even the definitions of) unity and discontinuity in biblical theology...
...NAL will go on gadflying, welcoming new ideas, new members, donors and collaborators and particularly constructive suggestions on how to do a better job of it...
...I remember Denny Landis, the key p e r s o n - - I believe--in NAL those first years...
...I was also fascinated to learn I had written something negative about NAL's financial studies for the National Catholic Reporter in 1970...
...Now converted, Castelli calls these surveys (Commonweal) : "important reports on church finances...
...In the epilogue the author takes issue with Brevard Childs of Yale, whose Biblical Theology in Crisis (1970) appeared apparently too late to be used in this work...
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...Allow me to take this chance to thank all those NAL'ers and others who helped investigate, analyze, issue reports and act this year on so many matters: closed NJ/Pa...
...I I think some very fine people in NAL tried to do it that way, and they spent their substance and wore themselves out in the process...
...If the anti-Israeli and the pro-Arafat/PLO business becomes the rule rather Commonweal: 251 logical discourse which is "biblical theology...
...It is perhaps even more minimalist and critical (rightly so, in the reviewer's opinion) of Old Testament messianism...
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...This is a license which, alas, has been allowed to reviewers from time immemorial...
...I know it has something to say, but without an audience the best message in the world is useless...
...I had expected some reviewers to nail me for my traditionalist natural law heresies (indeed, one sociologist who termed the book "brilliant," denounced this section as "naive metaphysical theology...
...Ferkiss thinks expresses best his idea of the tie of theology to politics, he writes: "Instead of struggling with the traditional problem of how an omnipotent and good God could permit suffering and death, we have to ask how nature defined as good could permit these things...
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...Precisely 213 registered...
...VICTOR FERKISS Reply Pittsburgh, Pa...
...260 ROLE OF TRE ECONOMIST: Richard DuBoff & Edward S. Herman 271 BOOKS: Irving Malin, Roland E. Murphy 272 JAMES O'GARA: Editor JOHN DEEDY: Managing ~dltor RAYMOND A. SCHROTH: Asset/ate Editor ANNE ROBERTSON: Editorial Assistant COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR.: Movies .JOHN FANDEL: Poetry BRIAN WICKER: Great grlfaJn ALAIN WOODROW: Paris HENRY TEN KORTENAAR: Rome JOHN COONEY: Dublin EDWARD S. SKILLIN: Publisher JOHN BRUBARER: Advertising Manager COMMONWEAL A review of Public Affairs...
...For the past year and a half I served on the Board of Directors of the NAL, and found that because of the lack of imagination and more specifically the lack of effective leadership, we were going downhill...
...PLAN is registered with the U.S...
...attempt to manipulate D. C. Black Secretariat...
...You become an influence in shaping the life of your Foster Child...
...You come to know the child through photos and a regular exchange of letters...
...4c, seven times...
...I chose the word to describe a possible direction someone, in this case Bishop Dozier, suggests an organization take...
...267...
...Theology Godfrey Diekmann, O.S.B., Louis Bower and Dr...
...When that beguiling actress, Claire Bloom, meets that immortal writer, Beatrix Potter, in THE PETER R BBIT Commonweal: 277 It's Hard For Young P e o p l e . . . to see some relationship between their faith and social justice, to think through controversial issues like abortion, sexual morality and the serious commitment of marriage, to know just what "belief' is, these days, when it's easier to doubt...
...Paul Minear are throe of the visiting professors for the Spring Term, 1975, Department of Theology, Catholic University, Washington, D,C...
...Quoting out of context is one thing, but the first four words in this particular quote come from Chapter 19 (page 283) and the last eight from Chapter 16 (page 241...
...This past year NAL has worked more closely With PEARL, CFFC, FCM, NARAL and RCAR...
...Now Cristina enjoys the support of a Foster Parent in Tennessee whose contribution of sixteen dollars a month assures Cristina and her entire family of better food and health care...
...the ever recurring financial scandals, such as Reno, LaSalettes, Paulines, etal...
...But I absolutely must object to the passage in his review which reads: "Nothing exists, though, beyond these generations, no transcendent directive, no God...
...Hew York, N.Y...
...And New Jersey is not the only local "listed...
Vol. 101 • December 1974 • No. 10
