CORRESPONDENCE:
ZIRKEL, DON & FREED, ALICE F. & MITCHELL, TIMOTHY A. & GERVASE, SISTER ST.
CORRESPONDENCE Ethnic Go Bragh Brooklyn, N. Y. To the Editors: One hardly knows how to begin to respond to Murray Kemp-ton's revelation that "the typical Irish philosopher is ... whoever is...
...That is why the Church excommunicates the sinner and that is why the Second Vatican Council labelled it an unspeakable crime...
...ALICE F. FREED Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Montclair State College Abortion Postscript New York, N.Y...
...As a result, I for one, now have a deep sense of having been used, and a sense of skepticism, quite different from the idealism and commitment I felt during the strike...
...Do I apologize first to the Irish, or to the Germans...
...Patrick's Day wishes from Brooklyn, where the editor is Teutonic, the Bishop Italian and the congregation Spanish...
...Striking Out Cedar Grove, N.J...
...gervase, s.s.j...
...He agreed to help us, if we helped him get an income tax passed in New Jersey...
...Aman described seems to have turned sour, at least for some, since those cold November days during the strike...
...The "radicalization on the picket line" resulted from the ugly realization that we were not playing a game but were face-to-face with hard-nosed poli(Continued on page 30) CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 5) ticians whose only concerns were their own futures and not the lofty concerns that we took so seriously...
...With apologies to Chesterton, No wonder the great Gaels are mad, after hearing Kempton's sermon, for all their sores are Murray and all their philosophers German...
...Governor Byrne himself agreed to compensation for made-up teaching time...
...One of the crucial issues raised before returning to work was that of possible reprisals against striking teachers...
...In its place is a new found skepticism...
...gervase, s.s.j.ve le Pape...
...As for the negotiations that we struck for, they produced nothing but a freeze on all salaries, including even the normal service increment granted annually to all college faculty...
...The writer neglects to refresh his own historical background for he seems unaware that Pope Paul's chief adviser is the Holy Spirit, flanked by two equally wise Persons, the Father and the Son...
...For many of us Catholics, the errors which Pope Paul has made seem minute compared to our own momentous blunders...
...sister ST...
...Our modern writer castigates Pope Paul's advisers for not reminding him that "true moral authority has nothing to fear from historical change and that false ideas are seldom fought well by laments or decrees...
...His negative projection of the Bishop of Rome is neither factual nor forceful-merely flip...
...See for example the writings of the Patristic Fathers and the early regional councils before the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea...
...After the various college presidents proposed a policy for make-up time that was punitive in its design, and after the union rejected it, a compromise was finally reached...
...John's with a degree in philosophy that anyone ever called me a philosopher, Irish or otherwise...
...While finding more Scotch than Irish in my blood, I could at least say that some of my best friends are Irish, but I wouldn't marry one...
...In the two weeks before final exams, many professors spent anywhere from five to twenty extra hours with an already heavy teaching load, to see to it that their students' received the class time they were entitled to...
...3] makes mention of the Pope's "everdwindling constituency," referring to him as a "harried worrier rather than a source of strength and hope...
...Anyway, happy St...
...whoever is editor for the Brooklyn Tablet" [News & Views, Feb...
...To the Editors: The author of the editorial "Pope and Church-1975" [Jan...
...To the Editors: The mood of the striking teachers at Montclair State College (and the other New Jersey State Colleges) was just as Kenneth Aman described it [Jan...
...And, my grandson is named John O'Connell, "the young liberator...
...sister ST...
...Perhaps I should just smile and point out that it's the first time in the decades since I graduated from St...
...17], Joan Harrison made three statements that are historically and theologically incorrect, and should, in the interest of accuracy, be corrected: 1. At no time from the 12th to the 19th century did the Church ever permit abortion...
...TIMOTHY A. MITCHELL Editor, Pro Ecclesia Papal Blessing York, Pa...
...2. The Church always opposed abortion...
...To the Editors: In her letter on Father Joseph O'Rourke [Jan...
...We do, we shall revere him as our Holy Father, the Bishop of Rome, the Visible Head of the Church...
...Vive le Pape...
...To this day in late February, no compensation has been received for any of the made-up time...
...The Payroll Office and the Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Montclair explain that a list of names and approved hours is sitting on Governor Byrne's desk waiting for his approval-though it was his agreement that originally set the plan in motion...
...However, the newfound sense of commitment and militancy that Mr...
...3. The teaching is "de fide...
...There is no doubt in my mind that the writer resides in the "dwindling constituency" camp...
...We were confused and unsure but determined to work-or strike, not only for higher salaries to keep pace with inflation, but for the right to have a voice in our own destinies as educators, and to see to the survival of higher education in New Jersey...
...The question of "ensoul-ment" turned on the point whether abortion was, in addition to being a sin of contraception, also a sin of murder...
...don zirkel Editor, The Tablet P.S...
...Come to think of it, I did...
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