NEWS & VIEWS:

...It was an openness that cost the journal dearly among the older generation of diocesan priests...

...Joining Ave Maria, Mes-senger of the Sacred Heart, Extension and other casualties of financial hard times and altered religious temperaments is The American Ecclesiastical Review...

...In Cardinal Hee-nan's case it was matched by a genuine goodness of character which was felt by all who met him and by the millions who saw him on television...

...After Fenton, the Review was less abrasive, and probably more effective...

...A Journal Struggles Additional problems in the Catholic press...

...Even so, it will be missed...

...His goodness was an ecumenical bridge to other denominations and to the Jewish religion also...

...The American Ecclesiastical Review has been around since, appearing monthly until three years ago when it squeezed to ten issues a year...

...Meanwhile, Worship magazine, out of Collegeville, Minn., will cut back in 1976 from ten issues a year to six...

...Instead, a "mini-TVi-umph" newsletter went into the mails containing an appeal for an average donation of $25 from Triumph readers...

...In Britain these two wings appeared only as fringe movements...

...Catholic University has been providing in the area of $16,000 and $17,000 per year for the past three or four years to The American Ecclesiastical Review, and has decided it can afford no more...

...Towards the end, The American Ecclesiastical Review was down to 1,800 subscribers, half the figure of four years ago...

...8: "In many countries, the Roman Catholic community was split in two by the Council...

...At a time when shrewd and understanding leadership could alone have held their community together the Roman Catholics were given it...

...JOHN DEEDY...

...The American Ecclesiastical Review had its lips and downs over its 86 years...

...There was much anguish over the decision, because of the journal's long history," said Brother James P. Clifton, C.F.X., who goes into history as the Review's last editor...

...As was the case with Continuum, the prestigious quarterly of the humanities and religion that folded in 1971, the ultimate blow came with the failure of a Catholic institution to continue the necessary subsidy if the journal was to go on publishing...

...Kindly Measurement Cardinal John Heenan, the eighth Archbishop of Westminster since the restoration of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England in 1880, died Nov...

...The journal did not anticipate Vatican Council II, but those Fenton-Murray exchanges very likely contributed in a positive way to the Council by sharpening Murray's logic and mode for the crucial showdown in Rome on religious freedom...

...Gone therefore is a journal that was often longer on history than it was on prestige, but which nevertheless met a real publishing purpose for most of its years...

...Odds and Ends -No one fought the Equal Rights Amendment more dizzily than Brooklyn's Holy Name Union...

...As a result, though the Roman Catholic Church in this country has not come through the past ten years without serious casualties, it has come through in better shape than in most neighbouring countries and probably in better shape than in the United States...

...a liberal wing took communion out of coffee cups and a Tridentine wing professed to regard the Pope as a Protestant...

...The Pastor's work was taken over by The American Ecclesiastical Review in Jan-nuary of 1889, the last issue of the one being also the first of the successor...

...Xavier College of Chicago was making up a difference of from $7,000 to $9,000 between Continuum's income and expenditures, then decided that it needed the cash more than it needed Continuum's prestige...

...At the time of its suspension, Triumph was down to 5,000 subscribers, from a high of almost 28,000 in 1969...

...Response will help determine whether the magazine will resume publication next year...

...NEWS & VIEWS A Journal Dies One of the historic journals of American Catholicism passes from the scene with its December issue...

...Its demise leaves a vacuum-Land a few questions about the intellectual priorities of another American Catholic intellectual institution...

...For the past ten years it has provided a forum for theological writers working on a level between the popular and the scientific/ academic...

...The American Ecclesiastical Review dates back to 1882 and a magazine for "working priests" called The Pastor...

...There will be an increase in the number of pages per issue-from 60 to 96-so that there will be as much reading as before over a year's time...

...John Courtney Murray livened many issues of the Review...

...Still, the bimonthly arrangement will mean important savings in postage and production costs...

...7 at age 70...

...He was not a Manning, let alone a Newman, but he met the religious needs of his particular moment in history remarkably well...

...Brent Bozell says the magazine's deficit figure is "not public...

...This remained the essential objective of The American Ecclesiastical Review...

...It was not an easy decision at all...

...No one is pointing fingers, however, at least not yet...

...It was a generally conservative journal, and during the long editorship of Monsignor Joseph C. Fenton tended at times towards reactionarism...

...Triumph, the political-religious journal of Bozell-Buckley conservatism, did not resume fall publication after its usual summer layoff...

...The following is from The Times (London) editorial of Nov...

...But it ever dealt with issues, and stimulating debates between Fenton and Fr...

...Currently this stands at 9,133...

...The great majority of the members of the Roman Catholic Church here were content to follow the Cardinal's lead, were pleased to be given time to adapt to changes they did not always welcome and were pleased that the new reforms did not involve the total disintegration of the authority of the Church...

...its slogan: "Save Mother's DayStop ERA...

...In its "Salutatory" message, The Pastor proposed to keep clergy "posted as to all decrees and decisions emanating from the Holy See and the Sacred Congregations," and said it would "discuss and comment on questions of theology, canon law and liturgy, especially as these affect what is so felicitously styled Pastoral Theology...

...Worship has anounced, by the way, that it is becoming the organ of the newly founded North American Academy of Liturgy, a detail which should stabilize, if not pick up, circulation...

...It also strove for more openness, publishing pieces, for instance, by Father Charles Curran and Sister Elizabeth McAlister, now Philip Ber-rigan's wife...

...Shrewdness may be a humdrum virtue and in heroic situations not always a virtue at all...

...Its crisis developed in early summer when some expected financial contributions to the magazine did not materialize...