NEWS & VIEWS:
Deedy, John
NEWS& VIEWS Who's Alive in '75? The Christian Century welcomed the new year by presenting a list of the 20 living persons most likely to make the gloom more bearable and lift our spirits in 1975....
...Also, Andrew Young, United Church of Christ clergyman and newly re-elected to Congress...
...Beyers Naude, who heads the Christian Institute of Southern Africa...
...3 published Gail Cooke's musing on the Connecticut clergyman who specified that there were 426 sins, no more no less: A minister has just announced, According to his discipline, There are four-hundred-twenty-six Quite different kinds of sin...
...Pat Crowley, a founder of the Christian Family Movement, now an ecumenical group...
...Under the circumstances, how could he be a serious candidate, Royko asked...
...Jean Jadot, new Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., departure from the "repressive, defensive, crabby types...
...Jeannette Piccard, ex-deacon, balloonist, scientist, and at 80 an Episcopal priest...
...Stance is important...
...The man I made Governor wasn't a convicted grafter...
...The state guarantees to the Catholic Church and to those who belong to it the full enjoyment of their religious rights without prejudice to the just religious liberty of other confessions and their members, as well as those of every citizen...
...Protestants and other missionaries now have rights of their own...
...My cousin wasn't being called before a grand jury...
...The Christian says Yes...
...follow through...
...The Crowley citation expands: "A busy lawyer who gave generously for politics (Eugene McCarthy was his candidate) and in whose home about 100 foster children or foreign students spent a year or more, he has been thought of as a kind of saint in his time...
...John H. Tietjen, dismissed head of Concordia Seminary in St...
...My City Council leader wasn't a convicted grafter...
...If these steps are followed, Graham's promise is a greeting at the clubhouse by "the greatest pro of all time, Jesus Christ...
...Alive in '75, you ask...
...Also, Roger Schutz, prior of the monastic community at Taize in France...
...My kids didn't-get legal fees from the firms that do business with the city...
...Jacques El-lul, French lawyer, quickener of consciences of "somnolent Christians" to problems of social justice, technology, etc...
...He died last fall...
...The Colombian Evangelical Confederation of Churches, representing 300,-000 Protestant Christians in Colombia, has pronounced the concordat "an infringement of religious liberty...
...keep your eye on the ball...
...His works do follow him...
...My former protege and neighbor wasn't about to go on trial as a grafter...
...Frederick Buechner, novelist and author of "fine popular works of Christian apology...
...Elie Wie-sel, writer of fiction, fuser of religious vision...
...None of my friends had taken race track stock...
...Also, Leighton Ford, evangelist and social thinker...
...The rehabilitation of the Brooklyn Tablet continues...
...The new one declares: "The State, in view of the traditional Catholic sentiment of the Colombian nation, considers the Roman Catholic Apostolic Religion as an essential element of the common welfare and of the integral development of the national community...
...Odds and Ends -Chicago Daily News columnist Mike Royko has ex-pained why he did not run against Mayor Richard J. Daley for the Chicago ma-oralty: "I didn't have the proper credentials...
...A National Review editorial initialed WFB speaks of the paper becoming "squishy soft on Communism, religious orthodoxy, and world federalism...
...The new Concordat also opens the way to civil marriage for Catholics without their having to abjure their faith, and to divorce for non-religiously married Colombians (a provision widely criticized as inadequate in scope...
...Alexander Solzhen-itsyn, Nobel laureate and "witness when so many settle back...
...Article 1 of the old concordat specified that 'The Roman Catholic Apostolic Religion is the religion of Colombia...
...Perhaps the kind pastor Will publish a list- I'd like an idea Of what I've missed...
...The Concordat continues to provide state aid to Catholic schools...
...John Adams, United Methodist clergyman, unofficial liaison between radicals and the establishment...
...Its nominees: C.F...
...Daniel Tji Hak Soun, Catholic Bishop of Wonju, South Korea...
...With embellishment by a Sorel cartoon, the Village Voice cites as a Great Moment in Theology Billy Graham's theorem about golf being a parable for the Christian life...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...My press secretary wasn't a convicted grafter...
...A New Concordat The Colombian Congress has ratified a new concordat with the Vatican, replacing that of 1887...
...Paulo Freire, late of Brazil, now of Geneva, sensitizer of consciences...
...Its most signfi-cant change is the termination of the 1953 "Treaty on Missions," which gave to Catholic religious orders exclusive rights to evangelism and education in so-called mission territories...
...Foy Valentine, head of the Christian Life Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention...
...What proof did I have that I loved Chicaguh...
...Dom Helder Pessoa Camara of Recife-Olinda, Brazil, "a pastoral hierarch...
...Dorothy Day, "our first senior citizen" and "pacesetter...
...John Howard Yoder, biblical scholar, pacifist, Mennonite...
...Oliver Mes-siaen, a leader in the musical world, "a Catholic who thinks that music should communicate 'lofty sentiments . . . and, in particular, the loftiest of all: religious sentiments...
...Now Let's itemize Under the title "Unfulfilled," The Wall Street Journal for Jan...
...Louis...
Vol. 101 • January 1975 • No. 13
