News & Views
NEWS & VIEWS Boston and Cushing Some fascinating clues to life in Boston and the thought of the late Cardinal Richard Cushing are contained in a confidential staff report to the U.S....
...The title: Inflation...
...in the case of Kting, discussions over the infallibility of the Pope...
...Schupp, as a consequence, Politique/LNS has resigned his chair, though he still holds his appointment as a professor...
...He has been informed that the Congregation of the Faith at the Vatican has condemned certain positions of his dealing with the creation and other points of theology...
...On the race question, Sullivan told the Globe that Cushing "felt his people carried with them deep feelings of prejudice and distrust toward black people, and they trusted to too great an extent t h e leadership of bigoted and narrow-minded parish priests...
...His theology was initially called into question in 1970, at which time he submitted his writings to the scrutiny of a panel of theologians that included Rahner...
...According to Tiroler Tages...
...In the case of Pffirtner, it was problems with the notion of freedom...
...Its cover featured a Jesus in modern dress...
...The attributions originate with Neil V. Sullivan, former Massachusetts State Education Commissioner and now professor of urban education at California State College at Long Beach...
...The report depicts Cushing as "dying with a broken heart" because he sensed that his leadership and influence on Boston's Catholics had not carried into the field of race relations...
...Meanwhile, the magazine's famed Bulletin Clock stands at nine minutes to midnight...
...zeitung, Schupp "is regarded as the most speculative spirit on the faculty" since Father Rahner...
...They were pronounced sound...
...Specifically, the Bulletin said it had to have $30,000 no later than the end of November for use as a revolving fund to finance subscription promotion, and $11,000 per quarter through 1975 to replace an anticipated operating deficit and restore personnel cuts that "threaten to reduce the quality of t h e magazine below an acceptable level...
...He's now "Ambassador Golpe...
...I n Publishers Weekly, Vintage Books announces a 30 percent price increase (from $1.50 to $1.95) for a paperback by Robert Lekachman...
...Big brother was scandalized...
...mFamiglia Mense, the Italian Catholic monthly, published a special supplement aimed at penetrating the time and world of Jesus, while showing his relevance and importance in today's world...
...Its problems: inflation, and a lack of capital with which to conduct the circulationbuilding programs that are the route to self-sufficiency...
...That was one of my biggest mistakes," he is quoted...
...The latest in trouble: Jesuit Father Franz Schupp, who succeeded Karl Rahner in the chair of dogmatic theology at the University of Innsbruck...
...The report credited Medeiros with a "forthright stand for integration and against violence," adding that this is said to be resulting in "widespread boycotting at the collection plate...
...Sullivan drew on a long, reflective conversation that he and a former aide, William J. Crowley, had with the cardinal on Boston's school problems before the cardinal's retirement in August 1970...
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...It has slapped on Volpe the Spanish name for coup...
...L'Osservatore Romano della Domenica, the Vatican weekly, branded the "fashion-house" Jesus "equivocal and disconcerting . . . a real misfortune...
...In another context he is said to have regretted building diocesan high schools...
...The cover portrayed Jesus as a long-haired, trim-bearded young man, dressed in white, wide-lapel suit, white shirt and dark tie...
...The masthead symbol is there as indication of the threat of nuclear doomsday hovering over mankind . . . . Now it also warns of the publication's doomsday...
...In all three cases," said Tiroler Tageszeitung, "a scholar has fallen because his teaching has come into conflict with orthodox opinion and the Church has seen in that teaching a danger to itself as an institution...
...There was no Vatican flag on the lapel...
...In 1969, according to the Globe, there were 333 schools with some 135,000 students in the Boston archdiocese...
...in the ease of Schupp . . . the meaning of Christian symbolic language and Christian symbolic actions...
...The Italian press, conscious of the Chile business, isn't buying...
...The German press is comparing his case to that of Father Hans Kting and former Dominican Stephan Pfiirtner [Commonweal, Aug...
...Sullivan confirmed the accuracy of the report's quotations in a telephone interview with the Globe's Muriel Cohen...
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...Founded 29 years ago as the organ of a group of scientists who had unleashed the atom in the cause of war and who wished to help harness it for peace, the Bulletin says it needs substantial contributions or pledges if it is to continue beyond the December issue...
...D | s t r e s s S i g n a | Another publication in trouble: Bulletin o/ the Atomic Scientists...
...Commission on Civil Rights concerning Boston's school desegregation problems, a copy of which has come into the hands of the Boston Globe...
...this year the numbers are 256 schools and about 84,000 pupils...
...Odds and Enda m U.S...
...Ambassador to Italy John A. Volpe strenuously denies reports that h e advocated early Italian elections and a change in the governing coalition from centerleft to centrist...
...With respect to schools, Sullivan said the cardinal agreed with his predictions that the parochial school system would be extinct in 1980...
...Another Condemnation Problems multiply for Catholic theologians in middle Europe...
...The report to the Commission spoke of a reduction of Church influence on Boston Catholics--a factor attributed to "unpopular liturgical reforms resented by some," as well as to the change in leadership from Cardinal Cushing ("He was seen as a Bostonian, an Irishman and of the people") to Cardinal Medeiros ("a prelate of Portuguese ancestry [as] many embittered or disillusioned Bostonians will quickly remind a visitor...
Vol. 101 • December 1974 • No. 9
