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...just as one deplored the violence that attended the struggle for community control of schools here in Brooklyn...

...Indeed, it's been my experience that Roman Catholics who are not too bound to authority have felt free to communicate at Episcopal altars for a long time, and certainly Episcopalians have communicated with Roman Catholic altars without necessarily flying a banner and saying who they were...

...To the Editors: Having heard Martin McLaughlin speak on the world food crisis on a number of occasions, I had the feeling that an article by him on the World Food Conference in Rome would be most excellent, and upon reading it my expectations were justified to the fullest ("Food for the World," Dec...

...McLaughlin emphasizes the moral responsibility our own country has in this crisis and the importance of keeping the seriousness of the threat before the minds and hearts of the American people...

...HARVEY G. COX Brooklyn, N.Y...

...What is more important, I believe, is the theology that is involved in the Eucharist, no matter when or how often it is celebrated on Sundays...

...I know now that at the meeting on November 29th, the United States did pledge several million additional tons of food, but, as Mr...

...Gibbons correctly sees that the events in West Virginia and elsewhere pose a major challenge to liberal orthodoxy in America...

...Prejudice is a system of repressed rage, violated dignity and despairing powerlessness...

...There are Evangelical dioceses in the South and in the Midwest...

...To the Editors: Russell W. Gibbons' "Textbooks in the Hollows" [Dec...

...There are parishes in the Diocese of New York that emphasize Morning Prayer as their regular Sunday service...

...With Mr...

...As our societal crisis deepens in America nothing will please our rulers more than to see ordinary people bashing each other instead of directing their hostility toward the right target-the corporate elites under whom both Rox-bury and South Boston, Charleston and Cabin Creek are fiefdoms to be kept at each other's throats...

...The unionized forces led by Al Shanker demonstrated once again that, in the words of a recent Chancellor, "the school system is operated for the benefit of the teachers rather than of the children or the communities the schools presumably serve...

...that the intention in the Episcopal Eucharist would provide for inter-communion...

...It is the intention of the celebration that would be the strong point insofar as inter-communion is concerned, and it seems to me...

...Commonweal is to be congratulated on the publication of probably as fine an analysis of the World Food Conference in Rome as one can read...

...MOST REV...

...It is true the Conference did achieve many significant results in its recommendation that steps be taken to attack various facets of the problem such as the need for greater agricultural development, which must be given first priority, the setting up of a world food reserve and an exchange of information on food resources, and finally, its proposal that a world food council be established to work more closely on all these matters with existing United Nations agencies...

...Like Mr...

...The parents of Kanawha County may never have heard of Al Shanker, but they have, perhaps more incisively than they know, addressed themselves to a process of social abstraction in which, under the guidance of experts ignorant of or disdainful toward cultural particularity, democratic pluralism has no place...

...However, one cannot say that they are located just in the South, nor could one really say that New York is the seat of Anglo-Catholicism within the Episcopal Church...

...If he had suggested to President Ford that we use a couple of hundred million dollars less for military hardware and apply it to the purchase of food for humanitarian aid for the hungry, he would not have been suggesting anything that would hurt anyone's economy...

...We cannot condone either the racism of South Boston or the obscurantism of the West Virginia "creekers...

...McLaughlin said, if this had been done during the Conference itself, it would have encouraged greater participation on the part of others who were in a position to help and certainly given greater hope to the peoples of the developing countries, many of whom are now actually threatened with starvation...

...about the Episcopal Church and the Roman Catholic Church is as confusing as it is enlightening [Jan...

...As for Mrs...

...6] strikes a well aimed blow against the enlightened arrogance that has gone so far in separating the family and natural human communities from the educational process...

...RICHARD JOHN NEUHAUS Anglo-Catholicism New York, N.Y...

...The Bishops of the United States and the National Council of Churches, as you know, have already taken steps to assure this...

...Perhaps if the Chairman of our delegation, Secretary of Agriculture Butz, had listened a little more intently to some of the members of the delegation, men like Senators Humphrey and McGovern among others, we would have shown a little more leadership in this regard...

...WILLIAM B. GRAY Food for the World New York, N.Y...

...REV...

...there are those that always have the Eucharist...

...REV...

...New York is an amalgam in reality...

...Shanker's recent ascent to the presidency of the American Federation of Teachers, it is reasonable to fear the progressive Shankerization of American public education...

...In conclusion, Mr...

...One hopes the insight will soon begin to penetrate the erudite bigotry that views millions of Americans as neanderthal victims of irrationality...

...Estes, Jr...

...People who are condescended to, whether by political or educational pros, will strike back at the nearest target at hand...

...It is true that there are Episcopal parishes that lean toward the Protestant side of the church, and they emphasize Morning Prayer as their regular Sunday worship...

...But I think the story goes even deeper...

...But if poor people, here or there, black or white, had the power to make their own decisions and plan their own community's lives, I believe much of the root cause of both forms of bigotry would be eliminated...

...In New York City we have, at least for the present, lost the battle for community control of schools...

...Estes' comment upon the Episcopal Church and its attitude toward women, I can only say "amen...

...McLaughlin, I was disappointed that the American delegation did not live up to the leadership expected of it, particularly when it came to the matter of the United States pledging additional food for humanitarian purposes...

...To the Editors: It seems to me that the letter from Mrs...

...We in the Boston area have also seen our share of battered school buses and bomb threats this fall...

...At (Continued on page 406)CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 379) the same time, one cheers the impulse that moves parents to reassert their rightful role in shaping the schools and community values by which they hope their children will be influenced...

...The deliberations surrounding the ordination of women have been a great deal less than admirable, and I can only hope that we can become less sexist in the future than we have been in the past...

...Secretary Butz argued that he did not want to do anything to hurt the American economy...

...EDWARD E. SWANSTROM Executive Director Catholic Relief Services United States Catholic Conference...

...To the Editors: I am grateful for Russell Gibbons' eloquent and compassionate account of how the poor people of West Virginia feel about someone else running their schools and choosing their textbooks [Dec...

...Of course one must say that one deplores the violence attendant upon the protest in Kanawha County, West Virginia, and one does...

...It is about time we reordered our priorities...

...There are a number of Anglo-Catholic dioceses in the Mid-West and some in the South...