NEWS & VIEWS:
Deedy, John
NEWS & VIEWS Back to Book-Banning? The Index may be suppressed, but book-banning is still part of the Vatican impulse. So one concludes after reading a report by Baden Hickman in the Manchester...
...So one concludes after reading a report by Baden Hickman in the Manchester Guardian...
...and to demonstrate to the UN and individual governments that there are some Catholics who appreciate the extent of the problem...
...I am con- cerned as to whether the Mass, as at present celebrated, is fit for the eyes and ears of an English country gentleman...
...The lecture agency sold Dean...
...O Tempora, O Mores The U.S...
...The Vatican's purpose, in turn, was also said to be twofold: to hold the line on birth control...
...That's an astringency worthy of his old man...
...Obviously, the history of the Church of England is totally abject, rooted in cowardice, servility and doctrinal error...
...The crockery was to impress Ford's dinner guests about the exaltedness of their state in life...
...This Soviet legislation," wrote one member of the American hierarchy back then...
...Government has spent more than $500,000 flying Secretary of State Kissinger's armored limousine with him on his diplomatic peregrinations...
...A group of colonists, angered by British tariffs, went down to the docks and threw three customs agents into the river, Winters related...
...According to the Washington Post's Maxine Cheshire, hotel officials were so fearful of breakage and pilferage that they refused to take responsibility for washing the President's dirty plates...
...How reminiscent of so much Catholic opposition to the 1924 Child Labor Amendment...
...The (London) Tablet, ordinarily a defender of Vatican prerogatives, blasted the suppression, saying that it has produced "an almost farcical situation involving standards of procedure that are very far from normal...
...English sources claimed that Moerman had been told by the Vatican either to stop distribution of the book or to buy the whole stock and destroy it...
...It was, wrote Wooten, an omission "similar to the series' failure to tell viewers that colonists, in addition to fighting and winning the Revolutionary War, also tarred and feathered British loyalists, murdered several others and, on at least one occasion, castrated an obstinate Tory...
...Louis Review has come out editorially against the Equal Rights Amendment as "unnecessary and dangerous in involving the courts more deeply in family life...
...What Winters did not say was that one of the agents drowned...
...Reason: the views "are in direct conflict with those propounded by the Pope in recent months...
...I mean no offense to the fools who don't agree...
...On his recent lobbying campaign to woo support for his energy and economic proposals, Ford brought along not only his armored limousine, but also a cargo of crockery bearing the Great Seal of the United States of America...
...It is expected that this will be the formula for editions in other languages...
...this usurping of parental rights to child education and control, agreed some episcopal colleagues...
...According to Informations Catholiques Internationales, an interim settlement has the first French edition going ahead unaltered, but any reference to the Conference of International Catholic Organizations being deleted from subsequent editions...
...He said the book had a two-fold purpose: to alert Catholics to the realities of the population problem...
...JOHN DEEDY the opposition is inane...
...The body links 32 major Catholic agencies with a membership of 60 million...
...On the other hand, it seems to have acquired a certain dignity over the years, while the present countenance of the Roman Church is transcendentally ignoble and reptilian in every aspect...
...It has done great harm to the ideals of the Church . . . and its standing in world opinion," The Tablet concluded...
...Hence, the plates were merely rinsed, then repacked and flown back to Washington, where Navy stewards spic-and-spanned them...
...Qualifying the statement for London's Catholic Herald, Waugh remarked: "I'm not trying to insult anyone, even bog-Irish priests whose brogue renders the vernacular liturgy both unintelligible and hideous...
...Left open, however, is the old Catholic sore: How much autonomy does a Catholic organization enjoy-if, indeed, any...
...Canon Joseph Moerman, secretary-general of the International Catholic Child Bureau, is editor of the book, which grew out of a 1973 meeting of the Conference of International Catholic Organizations...
...Between 400 and 500 copies of a French edition of 10,000 books had already been distributed...
...But President Ford goes Kissinger one better...
...As in 1924, so in 1975: the opposition is inane...
...and to clip the wings of the Conference of International Catholic Organizations...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...Obfuscation of the week, London-style: According to a parliamentary report in The Times, Gerald Kaufman, Under Secretary of State for the Environment, "moved a further amendment to reverse a Lords' decision which removed a provision for the termination of decontrol of tenancies by reference to ratable value...
...The Student Forum wanted radio disc jockey Don Imus...
...Odds and Ends -Former White House counsel John Dean came un-glamorously to Westchester Community College, Purchase, N.Y...
...Winsome Waugh Auberon Waugh confided to London's Private Eye that "services in the Roman Catholic Church have become so inane and so repulsive that I am seriously thinking of joining the Church of England...
...The ban came on the eve of the publications of English and Spanish editions of the book, titled The Population Problem...
...Example: Recently one of the "Bicentennial Minutes," a series of historical narratives on network TV sponsored by Shell Oil, featured Jonathan Winters telling about an event in Savannah, Ga., 200 years before to the date...
...Says Hickman: "A great deal of domestic infighting has been going on to limit the growing status and influence of this body...
...America the Beautiful The Times' James T. Wooten wrote recently of the sanitizing of American history that is taking place in order to make the Bicentennial as painless and as commercially palatable as possible...
...According to Hickman, the Vatican has ordered the withdrawal and destruction of a book on population problems in which 20 Catholic demographic experts advocate "liberal but orthodox policies on birth control...
...The St...
...Moerman confirmed that the Vatican had ordered withdrawal of the book, but declined comment on the either/or proposition...
Vol. 102 • March 1975 • No. 1
