News & Views
NEWS & VIEWS A T y p i c a l Parish? One parish does not mate a Church, so one must be cautious about reading too much into a profile emerging from St. Benedict's parish in Hazlet, N.J. St....
...More than 300 responded to the letter, thanking the Center for bringing the law to their attention and promising to discontinue their practice...
...An Air Rhodesia computer printout for March, 1974, showed 16,406 persons booked by U.S...
...One of them refused to say: 'Go, the Mass is ended,' on the Teilhardian grounds that our everyday life was a perpetual sacrifice...
...A projected loss of $133,000 for the current fiscal year was the deciding factor...
...P e t e r Hebblethwaite in the Catholic HeraM of London: "There are still cur6s in France trying to improve on the liturgy in an improvised way...
...accordingly, he used to exhort his baffled congregation at the end of Mass: 'Go, the Mass is just beginning.' " - - D r . Peter Berger (Rumor o/ Angels) on the socalled sexual revolution: "In a world of mass murder and mass starvation, of unprecedented terror, odious terror, and the threat of nuclear holocaust--in such a world there is something obscene about an order of priorities that starts off with bigger and better orgasms...
...Yet less than onethird of the people believe that suburban parishes should help to support innercity parishes financially...
...The letter cited U.S...
...tourists...
...Only 45 percent of youths concurred...
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...It has an enrollment of 2,000 families, who were surveyed in conjunction with a self-study program aimed at seeing "where the parish is at...
...About a quarter of the parishioners responded, 42 percent of whom were males and 58 percent females...
...The first 15 questions characterized the Catholic faith and on them there was general agreement...
...Odds and Ends --PTA Magazine died with its November issue...
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...on the other hand, 59 percent think most iaypeople are not willing to be leaders in the church even when invited...
...Yet many of the largest American tourist agencies ignored the letter or indicated refusal to change policy...
...At the same time, 93 percent disagreed that a good Catholic ought to think about the next life and not worry about fighting against poverty and injustice in this life...
...Persons may write to Rev...
...But American patronage remains strong...
...Ninety percent, for instance, agree that the best prayer is to love others in practice...
...Their attitudes are faseinating--and sobering...
...Apropos the parish council, 84 percent consider it a good example of clergy-lay cooperation...
...Fools Rush In D e p t . J Britain's Department of Employment has published a study ("Women at Work, Sex Differences and Society") rating one sex against the other, and receiving the following summary in The Economist: "Men are stronger than women (by about 80 percent), but more vulnerable to disease (twice as many boy babies die in their first three weeks of life as girls...
...The United Church of Christ Center for Social Action is pressing a "no tourism to Rhodesia" effort, and has available on request detailed information on the cooperation (or not) of individual travel agencies...
...But then again it is a part of the whole, and as such may be clue to the evolution taking place in American Catholic thought and practice...
...Reasons: spiraling production costs, increased postal rates, declinizlg circulation (from 162,000 to 52,000 over the past five years...
...Benedict's may be far from being the typical American parish...
...Over 80 percent of the respondents attend Mass at least every Sunday...
...With respect to drugs, 90 percent of those over 55 said it is sinful to use them, except for medicinal purposes...
...Donald Morton, UCC-CSA, Room 621, 475 Riverside Drive, N.Y., N.Y...
...Benedict's is a suburban parish in a northern New Jersey coastal community...
...Thus, 85 percent answered that it was morally right for married couples to use artificial means to prevent conception, while 63 percent believed it is not against God's law for a divorced person to remarry while the first spouse lives...
...Men are twice as likely to have an accident as women, three times as likely to commit suicide, see better but hear worse, are more practiCPS/The Bitd/LNS cal but have less vocabulary, are worse at arithmetic but better at mathematical problems, are worse at clerical work, are more emotionally stable, mature, realistic, thick-skinned, liberal, analytical, suspicious, self-opinionated, hard-to-fool, aggressive, stubborn and probably slightly more intelligent...
...In the area of morality, 93 percent indicated that they believe themselves accountable to God for their moral decisions, a conviction that apparently results in a certain indifference towards Church law...
...Only 16 percent of those above 55 shared this belief...
...noting their involvement in arranging tourism to Rhodesia...
...law and UN resolutions with respect to Rhodesia, and asked their cooperation in making effective the economic sanctions against Ian Smith's white minority government...
...Women are more warmhearted, sensitive, easy-going, conventional, calculating, penetrating, tense, frustrated, and troubled...
...Tourism is down considerably in Rhodesia--from 405,485 in 1972 to 288,105 in 1973, a decline of 29 percent...
...Tourism thus continues to be the second largest source of foreign exchange for the Smith regime...
...travel agents and airlines on flights connecting with Air Rhodesia for the rest of the year, a figure that represents charter-flight reservations only...
...Rhodeslan Tourism In August, the United Church of Christ Center for Social Action sent letters to over 1,100 travel agencies in the U.S...
...The breakdown according to age found that 65 percent of youths believed it is morally right for an engaged couple to have sexual relations before marriage...
...Employers are always finding reasons for not employing women," said the study . . . . A proclivity, it seems, that endures in at least one former colony...
...However, when it came to how to live the faith, there was disagreement . . . and contradiction...
...By conservative estimates, this tourism nets Rhodesia at least $16.3 million per year in foreign exchange...
...At least 20 29 November 1974:202 percent of Rhodesian visitors are U.S...
...A second study ("Women at Work: A Statistical Survey") shows 42 percent of British wives now work, compared with 22 percent in 1951--a figure that might even be higher if male biases were otherwise...
...They represented a cross-section of occupational types...
Vol. 101 • November 1974 • No. 8
