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CORRESPONDENCE Female Football Princeton, N.J. To the Editors: Is Michael Novak talking about the superbowl--or super-ball --mentality in his "Football for Feminists" [Nov. 1]? Is his...

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...But beyond that the election results may mean little...
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...Nevertheless, Father Robert Egan, S.J., raises a point or two in an otherwise well thought out letter that require a response [Oct...
...Two were eliminated in a special Spring referendum...
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...Both of these documents acknowledge the rights and duties of all those (Continued on page 197) NEWS & VIEWS: 17B CORRESPONDENCE: 170 EDITORIALS: ! 7 0 WILSON'S SECOND CHANCE: Bri.n Wicker 180 WASHINGTON REPORT: Oil f o r t h e S e n a t e ' s Lamps: SL~yphus 181 A FAREWELL: Abigail McCarthy 184 DIVORCE & REMARRIAGE: Michael True & James Young 185 VERSE: Byron V.zakas 191 THE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...What a contrast the issue's intelligent and courageous opening editorial ["Women Priests"] makes with Novak's essay in trivilization...
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...Commonweal: 197 toral directives, for the guidance of parish priests, to determine a longer interval between birth and baptism...
...Brother Dan, with love, may I recommend that when you have something important to say, leave off the journalistic pyrotechnics: i.e., shouting headlines like "To hell with the glory of God" and snappy openings "I want to write you this . . . love letter...
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...Now, either our ecclesiology acknowledges ecclesiastical structure or it does not, If not, we have an amorphous sect and no church (in which case anyone and everyone may do as they please...
...Certainly the elections raised up no Democrats as potential talent for steering the country out of the swamps of cynicism and clear of the ineptitudes that, among much else, have helped produce inflation and recession at the one time...
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...if so, we have some obligation to relate with pastoral prudence and sound judgment to basic norms of pastoral procedure within the church...
...They thus direct the conferring of baptism, by which a sharing in the kingly priesthood of Christ is granted...
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...If the Democrats' campaign rhetoric is true indicator, that may be understatement indeed...
...To attack football . . . is not to help the cause of women...
...7"0 the Editors: Professor True's "Last Resort in Boston" [Oct...
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...A cursory reading of the General Introduction to Christian Initiation and the Introduction to the Baptism of Children contained in the New Rite of Baptism for Children would make it perfectly clear that "consulting procedures" and "authorization" are a substantial element of a proper approach to Christian Initiation in the church today...
...The present school committee, chief culprit along with a few legislators, in the effort to continue the discriminatory process of education in Boston, will remain in office until January 1976, if it fills out its term...
...A reading in context would be much more appropriate but there are a few that bear directly on the question of "consulting procedures" and "authorization...
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...t:~0Z21 J03.455-8~75" 22 November 1974:198 his young and unsophisticated parents, and, ultimately, of the priestly office and the sacrament itself--made worse by O'Rourke's collusion with the Svengall figure of Bill Baird...
...Immediately, the shift in political controls promises nothing startling--not only because the top echelon of government remains unchanged, but also because the Democrats assume their ascendancy without concrete program for coping with the nation's problems, and even without impressive party or ideological leadership...
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...The longer this goes on, the more impossible becomes the American situation...
...We will have to work very hard to make the freedom to be wholly humane a reality...
...If the Democrats are without program at the moment, at least the pressure is on them to devise and deliver a program...
...Current problems and old Nixon names go hand in hand, right down the line...
...And we must remember that many a woman is driven to such desperation by her experience that she is unable to be either...
...G.I.13) "Other priests and deacons, since they are cooperators in the ministry of bishops and parish priests, also prepare candidates for baptism and, with the invitation or consent of the bishop or parish priest, confer the sacrament...
...Hopefully, Boston voters will vote "Yes" on the referendum in November and oust the committee...
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...To the Editors: Gordon Zahn's letter [Oct...
...Too many people remained silent while the demagogues whipped up passions in several neighborhoods and convinced people that busing would never come...
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...To the Editors: I was amused by your text on linguistic sexism [News & Views, Oct...
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...But what was perhaps even worse was his public prostitution of his priestly office and the sacrament of baptism to the level of a media event to serve political and partisan endsJsomething that Commonweal has frequently and correctly criticized in other instances...
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...1.25) This intervention is not meant as a judgment on any of the principals in this sacramental fiasco, much less Father Egan, but simply a plea for discussion and evaluation within the context of the documents involved which includes among others both the new rite for the baptism of children and the even more important rite for the Christian initiation of adults...
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...As so often happens, there has been ecclesiastical leadership at a moment of crisis, and it can be judged 'adequate' and may even be deemed 'courageous.' I would not want to assess the record of the Church for the ten or more years this city has avoided the issue it has finally been forced to face...
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...Since it is not enough to instruct the parents and to inquire about their faith in the course of the rite itself, conferences of bishops may issue pasFrom "The Halloween Party" ( Scrlbner' s ) by David Parks...
...11] rightly points out how Father O'Rourke's baptism of Nathaniel Morreale, far from being an act of "elemental justice" as you described it [Sept...
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...5 ELECTIONS The '74 bi-year elections are past, and the electorate has voted precisely as expected given Watergate and the economic upheavals: it turned thumbs down on incumbents--a very great many of them at least...
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...To the Editors: The prolongation of the Marlboro baptism case is not an event "to be devoutly wished...
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...Surely there is a point at which an individual, by his own free choice, puts himself outside and against a community so irrevocably as to compel that community to recognize this...
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...If the Democrats accomplish nothing as a party, the '74 elections will have positive effect if the strong Democratic showing prods President Ford at last into divorcing his Administration from Nixon's, symbolically and in fact...
...Joseph O'Rourke, may I cast my votes for the marvelous Abigail McCarthy and equally marvelous Gordon Zahn for shedding the most light by their thoughtful analyses of this complicated situation [Oct...
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...The turn in political control is dramatic evidence of moral repugnance felt towards Watergate...
...One plan retains the present structure...
...25], while essentially accurate, has a couple of factual errors and something of an oversight in its assessment of the troubled situation in this city...
...Is his article really about football for feminists...
...Father Lauder presumed erroneously, there/ore, that the author was male.--THE EDITORS) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Abigail McCarthy ( C o n t . ) affirming of each other...
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...G.I.14) "It is the duty of the priest to prepare families for the baptism of their children and to help them in the task of Christian formation . . . . It is the duty of the bishop to coordinate such pastoral efforts in the diocese . . . . " (I.7.1) "In many countries parents are sometimes not ready for the celebration of baptism or they ask for their children to be baptized, although the latter will not afterwards receive a Christian education and will even lose the faith...
...After all, "the use of physical tests tends to exclude women," and a good many feminists happen to be women (and some of us don't even subscribe to Ms., contrary to stereotype...
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...The referendum before the voters calls for a choice between two plans, not among four...
...There are just too many references to quote at any length...
...He raises the question of "consulting procedures" and "authorization...
...Virtue without program can be politically meaningless...
...A strong Republican showing---even a holding of their own--would only have guaranteed more of the Nixonist political operation that has been the inheritance and the way of the Ford Administration...
...The nation now has an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress and more states in control of the Democratic party than at any time since perhaps the early New Deal...
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