Editorials
CORRESPONDENCE O'Rourke Dismissal Marina City, Cal. To the Editors: Maybe I'm old hat (50 years are probably sufficient for that title), but wouldn't it have been prudent for Father...
...And if its issues and candidates fail to speak to both aspects of this crisis, the public will smell politics-asusual, and voter participation in national elections will continue to go down...
...With this in mind, the Democrats' next question should not be which bright and attractive governor or senator looks like a good Presidential candidate, but rather which would-be leaders have the character and imagination to respond to these ideals...
...US and Canada...
...Father's tack of moving in like a holy bull benefited no one or no thing except Father himself and his tasteless aberration towards "good" publicity...
...The government should interfere more, not less, in the forces of the so-called free market...
...Their decision, as you point out, seriously affects us all...
...Historically, the Democratic party has been distinguished by its trust in the people and its programs for social justice based on the right of every individual--weak or strong--to full participation in his society and a standard of living fitting his human dignity...
...a slashed defense budget...
...The dismal notoriety would have been prevented...
...What would the meaning of baptism be under such conditions...
...Publisher Morris Rubin says The Progressive is at "the grim point where the very survival of our magazine is at stake...
...Both military Presidents needed the rest...
...We will search again for the roots of our national character and, we hope, ask hard questions about the future direction of a society now paralyzed by apathy, demoralized by the failure of its economic system to sustain a high standard of living for all its citizens, disillusioned by the toolate realization that its White House had been taken over by a gang of crooks...
...Here it is: "Unregenerate, self-adulatory, negotiating for millions for his memoirs in which to erect a Nixon myth, Richard Nixon, who has degraded the Presidency, confessed to the obstruction of justice and over many months of concocting 'scenarios' of deception, need now make no accounting to the courts of justice, the American people, or to history...
...America is gradually drifting into its own version of apartheid...
...In reality this means that Brazil has been contracted by the U.S...
...Under this approach the maxim is: That nation which governs best is that in which the military governs most...
...On inflation, the Democratic party should realize that the modified laissez-faire position that both parties have held for the past several decades has neither insured economic stability, nor provided for an equitable distribution of our wealth, nor gained a better standard of living for the growing number of unemployed...
...Or to refuse to "grant" a baptism...
...Land-locked Bolivia lost its shoreline to Chile during the War of the Pacific (1879-83) and is now hoping to regain it through the efforts of Brazil...
...Brazilian dreams of extending influence to the Pacific are being realized through ties developed with post-AUende Chile...
...Brian continues to be employed by the Michigan Catholic as a writer and reporter...
...With massive doses of U.S...
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...MANATTA CALKINS Chicago, I11...
...I and many of my fellow Jesuits are dismayed and deeply saddened by the grave, hasty action taken by his superiors...
...Except for some minor concessions to d6tente, the U.S...
...Our foreign policy should change our image from that of an international bully to that of an international brothermbuilt on the true interdependence of nations...
...Its greatest leaders--Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson and Roosevelt--were believed because they spoke from a consistent liberal-humanitarian philosophy translated into practical proposals...
...The Michigan Catholic in dropping his column has effectively eliminated Brian's civil right to 'gainful employment in human dignity' by its discriminatory action...
...She added that she did not know if a selfimposed fast can be construed as sick leave...
...There is substantial evidence that his appointment as a columnist was based on a verbal and public understanding that legally could be construed as a contract...
...Then she separated herself from the recommendation...
...COMING: Daniel Berrigan writing on the implications of the Joseph O'Rourke case for the Iesuit Order and American Catholicism...
...A Democratic party that would compromise the goals of equal opportunity, housing and education, for black and white alike---even when this involves restructuring zoning patterns and busing-- is not worthy of support...
...It seems to me, under any" circumstances, a crude and trivializing idea...
...Ms...
...Father O'Rourke would not seem like a headline hunter...
...You say: "It is a relatively new and hardly-ever-applied position that the beliefs and morals of the parents should be scrutinized before baptism is granted," and go on to suggest that this might be a good idea under certain circumstances...
...some form of guaranteed income...
...help, it has brutally repressed I1 October 1974:28...
...To the Editors: Maybe I'm old hat (50 years are probably sufficient for that title), but wouldn't it have been prudent for Father O'Rourke to have advised the parents of the Morreale baby to baptize their child themselves...
...Second class postage paid at Hew York, N.Y...
...We will drift along as a has-been country managed by mediocre men, with grafitti and porn as our national literature, lotteries in place of tax reform, a bent flip-top coke can as our national emblem, and Billy Graham and Evel Kneivel alternating as our most admired men...
...Therefore his case does not involve outright discrimination leading to dismissal of employment...
...economic and political influence...
...Joseph O'Rourke [Sept...
...Cronyn's editorial statement appeared to spike the notion that the action against McNaught contravened Detroit's charter providing equal rights for homosexuals...
...printing costs by 37 percent...
...This will continue, he declared, "until such time as my Church, directed locally by Cardinal John Dearden, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Bishop Joseph Schoenherr, Bishop Arthur Krawczyk and Bishop Joseph Imesch, makes a positive commitment to educate themselves and the community of the faithful to the horrible wound inflicted upon their gay brothers and sisters in the name of Christian decency and to work 8 I 11 October 1974:26 constructively for the elimination of the pain which we, as a Church, have caused...
...The ideological menu of this network is a messianic defense of the capitalist system, heavily peppered with a staunch anti-Communism...
...federal control of energy development, and a toughening, not a slackening, of our environmental controls...
...and perhaps the parents would come to realize the privilege of Catholicism and the profound joy of meeting that responsibility in all its forms...
...The final issue is racial justice...
...Although swimming in the Atlantic, his thoughts were of the Pacific...
...It should be pointed out that baptism does not usually require "consuiting procedures...
...Does the attention of journalists substantially alter the ethical and theological issues involved in this...
...Cronyn declared that each day a doctor calls the Michigan Catholic to say that Brian McNaught is under medical care and will not be in that day...
...Within the next two months the Democrats will be preparing their biannual mini-convention...
...by Commonweal Publishing Co., 232 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y...
...Editor Margaret Cronyn of the Catholic denied that discrimination based on McNaught's "sexual preference" was involved in the cancellation of the column...
...to keep South America safely within the sphere of U.S...
...It would be tragic if our national leadership could readily send a generation of young men to die in an ignoble war but could not get us to cut the fertilizer supply on our golf courses or eat less steak to save countless Africans and Asians from starvation...
...However, his case does involve outright and blatant discrimination resulting in irreparable damage to his career in the public and professional worlds of journalism, to his ability to seek promotion and advancement within his chosen profession, and his right to work in an environment which is free from unnecessary tension and antagonism...
...Ms...
...stir conducts its Latin-American foreign policy on a cold-war basis...
...McNaught has been on a "fast of reparation" since Sept...
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...The entire platter is served up as a devotion to Western Christianity...
...JR.: Movies JOHN FANDEL: Poetry BRIAN WICKER: Great Britain ALAIN WOODROW: Parix HENRY TEN KORTENAAR: Rome JOHN COONEY: Dublin EDWARD S. SKILLIN: Publisher JOHN BRUBAKER: Advertising Manager COMMONWEAL A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature and the Arts...
...John Eekstein conveyed the board's recommendation of "conditional amnesty" to President Ford, just prior to his announcement of precisely such an inadequate program...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BRAZILIAN IMPERIALISM EYEIN THE FHr162 After attending the Brazilian Presidential inauguration, Bolivia's Hugo Banzer flew to the seaside fun city of Rio de Janeiro to splash in the waves...
...SIS a year...
...they must decide what kind of an alternative program they will offer America as the nation approaches what may well be a watershed Presidential election in I976...
...national health insurance...
...Do we really want ortho(Continued on page 45) NEWS & VIEWS: 26 CORRESPONDENCE: 27 EDITORIALS: 2 7 EYEING THE PACIFIC: Agostino B,mo 2 8 NO CHEERS FOR FATHER KEANE?: Abigail McCarthy 3 0 THE ECONOMICS OF DEATH: Douglas Mattern 31 CATHOLICS I N EAST GERMANY: Willard F. Jabusch 3 4 THE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...Appropriately, it is also the Bicentennial year, and the media, schools and many local communities will certainly try to make these next two years a period of public reflection...
...a full employment program that would supply two to four million jobs by enlisting the jobless in the national service-financed by cutting special-interest subsidies out of the budget and raising taxes...
...Who is thought to have the authority to "authorize" a baptism...
...The Progressive warns that "unless we can raise almost $100,000 from our subscribers" it will be forced to suspend publication...
...The information, based on national news reports, turns out to be less than fully accurate...
...Mrs...
...While Banzer was enjoying the surf, his Chilean counterpart, Augusto Pinochet, was being photographed devoutly receiving Communion in a Catholic church just a short distance away...
...They were part of intense diplomatic sessions orchestrated by Brazil to solidify the growing chain of nations being strung together by the "green giant" of South America...
...Pinochet also attended the Brazilian inauguration and, like Banzer, decided to rest a day in Rio before returning to the domestic rigors of running a dictatorship...
...Brazil dominates the Atlantic coast as traditional rival Argentina is now surrounded by Brazilian client-states...
...Ms...
...paper costs, 60 percent and sRll rising...
...Yet George Wallace has achieved exaggerated party power because so many fellow Democrats appear all too ready to do business with him...
...If the Democrats lose sight of this and simply spend the next two years jockeying for power they will have no more credibility than Nixon, Agnew, Scott, Rockefeller, Stans, Mitchell or the pardon-tarnished Ford...
...An appeal letter notes that postage costs have increased by 140 percent...
...6 News & Views, it was stated that "columnist Brian NcNaught" of the Michigan Catholic, newspaper of the Detroit archdiocese, was "canned" after it was learned that he is president of Dignity/Detroit, an organization of Catholic homosexuals...
...Speaking for myself, personally," Mrs...
...The depression, therefore, to which the Democratic party must respond is not just economic but moral...
...In another era Eugene V. Debs, pointing up the principle of equal justice, declared, 'So long as any man is in jail, I am in jail.' Now the challenge is: 'So long as Richard Nixon is free, why is any man in jail?'" Odds am/ Ends --Soaring costs have gotten to another journal of opinion...
...It's the editor's prerogative on any newspaper...
...Commonweal: 27 NEWS & VIEWS Object|on, P l e a s e The president of the officially sponsored National Council of Catholic Laity broke with the NCCL board on the issue of amnesty...
...A statement joined in by Dignity's officers and by members of the Salvation Gay Ministry Task Force asks that some "essential facts" be borne in mind: "It is . . . important to understand that Brian had worked as a columnist and writer for the Michigan Catholic for four years after graduating from Marquette University's School of Journalism, and that Brian had been hired originally as a staff writer for the Michigan Catholic and that he was appointed a columnist for the Michigan Catholic one month after being hired...
...Michigan Catholic staffers have a Guild contract...
...She said that McNaught was still a staff member, although he was then a "week and two days overdue" from a two-weeks' vacation...
...Then the party should battle for long-held priorities that have yet to get a fair hearing or unified support: radical tax reform...
...But then I might be old hat...
...Anything less than immediate, unconditional amnesty would be an unconscionable and vindictive act for a nation seeking to be an agent of healing and reconciliation...
...Cronyn declined comment on that statement during a phone conversation Sept...
...Eckstein wrote, "it seems abundantly clear that these men have suffered and anguished far too much already...
...That's the editor's job: to decide what will appear and not appear in the pages of this paper...
...Foreign $17...
...This one point I hope you will reconsider...
...JOHN DEEDY First, the issues...
...He is above the law that applies to common men...
...Nixon and Debs For a summing up of the Nixon Myth and the Nixon Challenge, what better than the brief letter to the New York Times from Henry Beetle Hough of the Vineyard Gazette out on the island...
...The chain also contains Paraguay and Uruguay...
...But Dignity's national office in Boston is not entirely sure...
...37 MANAGING LITERARY HISTORY: John Deedy 3 8 ROOKS: Jeffrey Meyers, Richard McBrien 41 ILLUSTRATIONS: Front cover: Wetzel, Rothco: page 31: N,rmic/LNS: page 38: Auden photo by George Cserna JAMES O'GARA: Editor JOHN DEEDY: Managing ~d|tor RAYMOND A. $CHROTH: Associate Editor ANNE ROBERTSON: Editorial Assistant COLIN L. WESTERBECK...
...Most of the four-nation satellite system has been forged since 1970, making Brazil the number-one continental powerhouse...
...Wallace should be told early: no deals...
...Printed in the USA and published weekly, except biweekly Christmas.Hew Year's and June to mid.September...
...He was dropped as a columnist, but continued as a staff reporter...
...That D e t r o i t 'Canning' In the Sept...
...The column was dropped, she said, "just as columns in the past have been dropped and, no doubt, in the future will be dropped...
...To the Editors: Thank you for your thoughtful editorial concerning Fr...
...Single copies SOc O O e O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 e O e 000 THE PARTY TO BELIEVE The wake of last week's economic summit and Senator Edward Kennedy's wise withdrawal from the Presidential race give the Democratic party a good chance to show some spunk after months of floundering around, slyly--and perhaps irresponsibly--sitting back while the Republican President and party self-destructed, and the wages of Watergate took their toil...
...The first task should be the alleviation of world hunger, and Americans should be asked to sacrifice...
...The Democrats might well consider a program like the one outlined by economist Melville J. Ulmer in the October Atlantic: a permanent government authority to exercise selective price and wage controlsmparticularly over monopolies and the health care industry...
...The Brazilian military has been in power since 1964...
Vol. 101 • October 1974 • No. 2
