CORRESPONDENCE:
GURIAN, JOAN M. & REEVES, TROY D.
CORRESPONDENCE Altar-Persons Garrett Park, Md. To the Editors: To you "The use of girls to serve Mass has to be the great Catholic non-issue of 1975" [News & Views, 28 February]. As an isolated...
...Would Commonweal have made the same kind of remark about little black boys not being allowed to be altar-boys...
...Together they form a coherent scenario for catastro-phe in the four elements...
...TROY D. REEVES, D. REEVES...
...Elementary Disaster San Angelo, Texas To the Editors: Regarding "Masters of Disaster" [The Screen, 4/11/75]: It ap-pears that Hollywood has stumbled into a kind of philosophical integrity with its four spectacles of disaster, Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, Airport '75, and Earthquake...
...As an isolated instance, perhaps, but as another sign that women are not fully members of the Roman Catholic Church, it is hard-ly a non-issue...
...JOAN M. GURIAN What the News & Views item meant to suggest was that for anyone to argue against using girls to serve Mass was preposterous, or, as it was worded, that the whole thing was a non-issue, simply because there really was nothing to debate-Ed...
...But could it not also herald a loss of faith in pop-ular humanism, the illusion that man has everything under control...
...I am neither a little girl wishing to be an altar-server, nor the mother of one, nor a member of the NAL...
...I am however a woman, who is getting very tired of being a second-class Catholic...
...And the "best and brightest" of humanity-scientists, urban planners, technicians, experts and heroes-are able to salvage little more than a few chunks of human and in-organic rubble...
...This may well indicate a current "apocalyptic" mentality, an "end-of-the-world" syndrome...
...By all means, let us show little girls at an early age that they are second-class, even in that in-stitution which preaches that God loves all of us...
Vol. 102 • May 1975 • No. 4
