NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS& VIEWS Bicentennial Chips At the height of the Vietnam war protest period, a Westchester County, N.Y., community achieved notoriety by placing the peace contingent in a Memorial Day parade...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...Neal Knox, editor of Rifle magazine, warns in the July-August issue that the election of Carter could lead to serious difficulties for sportsmen and gun owners...
...Bad things happen to those who stand in his way...
...Ouch...
...But some of Carter's supporters...
...At the same time, the 300-member Council, comprising laity and clergy, asked Pope Paul to consider readmitting to the active ministry those priests who have married...
...On the other hand, the contretemps was not discovered so late as to be uncorrectable...
...They placed the maverick July Fourth Coalition contingent behind what one observer labeled "a small division of horses," with no sweeper in between, though there were sweepers of course to clear the way for other groups...
...Maybe so...
...A study indicates that there will be 150 fewer diocesan priests actively ministering in the Archdiocese of Chicago by 1983, a development that would reduce the number of diocesan priests from its present listed figure of 1,038 to some 888...
...It's enough almost to make Jerry Ford a Jimmy Carter supporter...
...He did not even participate in Vatican II, being the Papal Nuncio in Canada...
...raising the retirement age...
...He's quoted by Knox as saying, "within five years we'll break the National Rifle Association...
...Walter Con-way said in the New York Times of the scheduling of a liturgy for U.S...
...Lucky Jerry David Broder's wrap-up paragraph in his Washington Post column dealing with Ronald Reagan's "Schweiker miscalculation": "For now, let it just be noted that, once again, Jerry Ford has shown himself one of the luckiest politicians in America...
...Carter's for a ban on "Saturday Night Specials" and wants handgun registration-which isn't too bad, maybe, for gun enthusiasts...
...A petition for married priests does not seem to be in Chicago's tomorrow, however...
...If I were Jimmy Carter down in Plains, I'd watch out for alligators...
...having lay persons or permanent deacons take over some specialized ministries now performed by priests...
...military...
...making more use of religious women, deacons and laity in parochial ministries...
...The Summer issue of the Catholic Peace Fellowship Bulletin was already on record with story and denouement: "Despite letters of protest from many prominent Catholics, the Planning Committee for the Eucharistic Congress has refused to alter the schedule...
...The actions were taken "in view of a current shortage of priests...
...Attorney General...
...It arrived just as these were ending and the assembly was breaking up...
...According to news stories, possible solutions to the expected clergy shortage center on the consolidation of parishes and priests' duties...
...military personnel on the 31st anniversary of the A-bombing of Hiroshima by U.S...
...and that long, long shot-the ordination of women, which seems a much less realistic alternative at the moment, however worthy, than the reactivating of priests who married...
...The Worcester, Mass., city fathers one-upped their Westchester counterparts with the Bicentennial parade that trooped down Main Street before 150,000 spectators...
...The latter is Morris Dees, Carter's chief fund raiser...
...Thus to the great glee of the city fathers, and minimum protest from the public (a single letter of complaint in the Worcester's Catholic Free Press), coalition members were forced to march "around, over and sometimes in what those great patriotic beasts left behind...
...The fire truck dragged, stopped, started, dragged along the parade route so that by the time the peace group reached the parade's destination, it was a half-hour behind the main body and too late for official memorial observances...
...Unfortunately, we did not know the significance of the date at the time," Eu-charistic Congress executive secretary Msgr...
...Clergy Shortages In Durban, South Africa, the Archdiocesan Council has taken a position in favor of admitting married men to the priesthood...
...And it's what breeds anti-establishmentism...
...To make matters worse, he's the guy, says Knox, who scuttlebutt has becoming, Carter's U.S...
...reactivating resigned priests...
...Gun Week, no less upset than Rifle, played Knox's warnings prominently in a July issue...
...Gunners Against Carter The gun lobby is growing more nervous by the day over the prospect of a Jimmy Carter presidency...
...Odds and Ends - In the Italian newsmagazine Il Mondo, old Rome hand Desmond O'-Grady speculates on Pope Paul VI's successor: ". . . Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio, who has never taken a false step in his ecclesiastical career...
...Funny as the deuce...
...NEWS& VIEWS Bicentennial Chips At the height of the Vietnam war protest period, a Westchester County, N.Y., community achieved notoriety by placing the peace contingent in a Memorial Day parade at the rear of the march, following a wide-bodied fire truck...
...Meanwhile, back in Chicago, the archdiocese with the most seminarians in the world anticipates a shortage of priests somewhere off in the future and is meeting now on the problem...
...One is a board member of several anti-gun, anti-hunting organizations, notes Knox, and another helped found the new National Gun Control Center, an organization dedicated to the total ban on handguns...
Vol. 103 • August 1976 • No. 18
