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CORRESPONDENCE Nominal C h r i s t i a n s Bronx, N.Y. To the Editors: The trouble with Mr. Waagenaar [The Pope's Jews, book review, Aug. 23] is the same trouble that drove Hitler to seek...
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...They think they are helping women by attacking football...
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...After all, football itself was only recently invented...
...The young may who accepts this offer and becomes a Marianist brother or priest will find a rewarding life in a religious community...
...At the same time, the Episcopal bishops may well have brought to a turning point an ecumenical cause whose time is long overdue and given the Catholic Church an example of a sister Church realistically facing an issue which in the Catholic community has been smothered by a conspiracy of silence...
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...Now, this latest declaration sets the tone for the September 1976 Minneapolis General Convention of the Episcopal Church---a meeting of the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies of over 900 priests and laymen--when the policy against women's ordinations will very likely change...
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...For all its faults, it has won the gratitude of millions...
...Women tend in many ways to be superior to men...
...The 220-member House of Bishops is the same body that declared the July 1974 ordination of eleven women in Philadelphia invalid on the grounds that the four defiant ordaining bishops lacked jurisdiction, since the ordinations were authorized by neither the bishops nor the people of a diocesan community...
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...Seen in perspective, all this looks like tokenism when, simply because of their sex, women have not been allowed to perform those sacred mysteries at the heart of the spiritual life...
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...It does not help women to encourage them to tell the boys to be good little boys--and to imagine women as good little girls...
...Then Catholics will look at their own congregations with embarrassment, all the more conscious of how their own tradition has deprived women of the dignity that is theirs by denying them full and equal participation in the sacramental life of the church...
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...Let women invent their own equivalent to football, suited to their natures and their aspirations...
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...Besides, there is a basic difference between a competition which is ultimately a competition against oneself--as most sports provide--and a competition whose point is merely coming out ahead of others, as capitalism provides...
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...Football was invented to provide some correctives for these deficiencies among men...
...the verbal exaggeration of self-pity, poverty of soul, and narrowness so common among our writers and professors...
...Rodrlguas also seeks funds for _9 $1,S00 t er available In his country "to plough and cultivate our little land...
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...As for our being confused and pettily concerned about our image and identity --we're much too busy...
...Letters o] not more than 250 or 300 words naturally have a better chance o~ being published...
...Football is not the whole truth about human life...
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...We're moving into the year with well-thoughtout plans of action, appropriate to our regions and dioceses, in such areas as education, prison ministry, health care delivery, pastoral ministry, and religious (Continued on page 119) NEWS & VIEWS: 98 CORRESPONDENCE: 09 EDITORIALS: 99 BURYING THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LAITY: Jim Castelli IO1 WASHINGTON REPORT: f f i ' [ a , Feila, [ o u r s e l f : Sisyphus 102 FOOTBALL FOR FEMINISTS: Michael Novak 104 CATHOLICS IN SOUTR VIETNAM: Jayne Werner 105 CASINOS AND DOMINOES: Warren Sloat 108 VERSE: Harold Wilt 112 THE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...But as a corrective to the emotional falsity of bureaucracies and women-dominated institutions, to false ideals that deny the physicality of human nature, and to lassitude of body and will, football is a humble saving grace, a joy to millions...
...Roman Catholics can start getting used to the fact that in its sister Church, whose doctrine and liturgy are barely distinguishable ,from their own and where some Catholics already feel free to worship and receive communion, women will soon utter the words of consecration and be accepted by the people...
...And too bad we were not able to communicate to you the sense of commitment and hope that is ours...
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...There's danger in bringing one's own agenda to someone else's convention and then making all judgments out of that narrowed focus...
...Women are not treated in America as the equals of men...
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...While the Superbowl turns out to be a dud, the playoff games are (usually) almost perfect enactments of comradeship, team unity, split-second execution, and most intense physical confrontation-- they are as lovely a communal art as humans have ever invented...
...Billie Jean King and other women athletes are no less "humanized" because they love the challenge of competition and the struggle against themselves their sports entail...
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...It will not do to say, as apologists always have, that the Catholic teaching on marriage pays tribute to the woman's dignity, or that devotion to women saintsnmostly "virgins" and founders of religious orders--and the cult of the Blessed Virgin Mary are meant to give women a sense of fulfillment in the Church...
...The Catholic Church could not prevent the systematic slaughter of Catholics in Eastern Europe, let alone the slaughter of other groups...
...It is not their "oppression" they seem actually to be protesting...
...Bishops' actions with regard to evangelization and communications...
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...They resist immaturity, an absence of heroic models, and a low self-esteem...
...MARK TAYLOR e e e e e e e e o Michael Novak ( C o n t . ) tinguish between the physical combat of football and the verbal violence the educated practice--the destruction of repuations, personal dignity, and good will...
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...That is why record-keeping is so important an element in sports--one is ultimately competing against one's own performances...
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...Some people tell us we'd be more effective if we paid attention to said image, so we set up a communications task force, in the light of the U.S...
...But "equal" is a tricky ideal...
...It was obvious to most observers that NAWR members are much more committed to and serious about our broad Ministry for Justice than about an allout assault on the woman question...
...To attack football--or even the principle of excellence--is not to help the cause of women...
...Enough damaging rhetoric is already current...
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...But women could well use some of the experiences football yields...
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