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CORRESPONDENCE Seminary Systems St. Meinrad, Ind. To the Editors: In your fine editorial on "Women Priests" [Nov. l] you engage at one point in an attack on "the old seminary system" and...
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...The seminarian can be as isolated in that atmosphere as he ever was under the "old system...
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...Since seminaries are pro]essional schools, it is highly questionable whether or not the courses of an undergraduate department of religion or a graduate school are simply interchangeable with those of a professional school...
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...l] you engage at one point in an attack on "the old seminary system" and argue for "a process that would allow men and women of any age to take their dogmatic, moral and pastoral theology at a Catholic University...
...There seems to be no question at all of introducing rationing before the tanks go bone dry, and the Administration lacks the nerve to do what so many experts urge: impose a stiff additional tax on every gallon of gas to reduce demand and provide extra revenue which could be used to cushion inflation for the aged and very poor...
...When will Catholics learn that to substitute one authoritarianism for another is no gain...
...Imagine, for instance, the galvanizing effect on the rest of the world if we had announced that we were cutting our military budget in half in order to help meet the world food crisis...
...In the critical national and international climate described by Mr...
...The only man in the Administration who consistently talked about the need for tough measures has been unceremoniously handed his hat (although there was only a Ford slap on the wrist for the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who told students that Jews control the banks and newspapers in this countryJthe familiar canard of classic anti-Semitism...
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...Surely not by turning our backs or shirking responsibility...
...Seminary education involves more than attending courses at a Catholic university...
...If we do not get a recognition of our interdependence, the Western civilization that we know is almost bound to disintegrate," Mr...
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...could have demonstrated some rightfulness to our claim to world leadership by taking a firm moral stance...
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...Instead the Administration only mumbles and fumbles...
...ANNE FREMANTLE+S most recent book is George Eliot (Haskell Publishers...
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...We are left to ask: How can we exercise our moral obligations to our neighbors of the globe whose future is interwoven with ours, and still not intrude in such a way that that natural and CAN'T KEEP UP with the new books...
...The local community has a right to expect professional training on the part of its priest...
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...You may have missed the obituary of "the old seminary system," but present-day seminaries are considerably different and more enlightened than their predecessors...
...There is formation (which can be highly positive), supervised field work, internships, specialized course work in pastoral counseling, homiletics, etc...
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...But to substitute a university system for the old separate system, is to be as rigid under the guise of liberalism as the old system ever was...
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...The placement of seminaries on university campuses does not automatically ensure integration into the (Continued on page 247) NEWS & VIEWS: 226 CORRESPONDENCE: 22"l EDITORIALS: 227 IRISH SECTARIANISM AND RECONCILIATION: John Coonev 228 THE FACT OF INTERDEPENDENCE: Abigail McCarthy 230 TEXTBOOKS I N THE HOLLOWS: Russell W. Gibbons 231 WASHINGTON REPORT: Many Happy Returns?: Sisyphus 235 VERSE: C/emewell Young 23,1 CRITICS' CHOICES FOR CHRISTMAS: Thomas E. Cronin, Anne Fremantle, John Heidenry...
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...FATHER GERARD S. SLOYAN Of Temple University's religion department is the author of Jesus on Trial (Fortress...
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...Paul Mincer are three of the visiting professors for the Spring Term, 119S, Department of Theology, Cathol}c University, Washington, D.C...
...Where firm and decisive action is called for, the White House continues to put its faith in platitudes...
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...To avoid uncontrollable political, economic and social chaos in the world, he argued, we need a "visible and dramatic downturn in the arms race" and a new spirit among nations...
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...Should we have refrained from helping Frei, from insuring his success...
...Increasingly seminary faculties are pluralistic with mixed faculties...
...Powerful international forces were helping his opponents of the right and left...
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...Or take the recently concluded World Food Conference in Rome...
...Given the fragmentation of the modern university, there follow no necessary benefits from a move to a university campus...
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