NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS& VIEWS Parish Contentions Good Shepherd parish in Mt. Vernon, Va., which has been engaged in a running dispute with pastor and bishop over the functioning of a parish council [Commonweal,...
...Bishop Joseph H. Hodges of Wheeling-Charleston, W. Va., has been named as arbitrator by the head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy, Cardinal Wright...
...The church was occupied...
...The Day citation: "Newspaper woman, author, editor, publisher, a socialist, syndicalist, and anarchist, Dorothy Day has been acclaimed not only as 'the most influential lay person in the history of American Catholicism,' but also as a 'radical who never got tired.' Dorothy Day began working among the poor in the early 1920s and has lived in voluntary poverty throughout her adult life...
...So that's one American way of resolving a dispute between parish and rectory and chancery: Appeal to delegated authority, invoke the letter of Vatican Council II, then sit down and discuss grievances...
...Parishioners held an assembly and informed the bishop that either the suspension was to be retracted or the church would be occupied...
...Just move in and defy authorities to deny you your "rights...
...Parishioners occupied the church...
...He agreed...
...Parishioners asked De Nadai to stay...
...Meanwhile, the two priests continue their ministry to the parish and their efforts to solve the social problems of the town...
...Easy...
...Now they are confronted with occupations in Favara, an economically depressed community of 25,000 persons in Sicily...
...Rocco parish in Gioiosa Ionica, both in Southern Italy, for three and two years, respectively...
...Murray Chass in the New York Times...
...Demonstrating that he hadn't lost the old touch, Tibbetts strained and the plane dropped a simulated A-bomb, sending skyward a billowing mushroom-shaped cloud...
...In Italy, upset Catholics prefer the direct-action method-thus the number of "occupied" churches there grew from two to five over the summer...
...Her poetry is classified by most critics as 'confessional' verse...
...Gorizia, a town of 43,000 in Northern Italy's earthquake zone...
...No time framework has been established for implementing and completing arbitration...
...Exactly 484 years after Columbus discovered America, postseason baseball re-discovered Yankee Stadium last night as the Kansas City Royals clashed with the Yankees in Game No...
...Then in June, the parish priest, Father Cleto Zani-boni, 39, went ahead and married a 35-year-old school teacher...
...Then, with the light step of a Strangelove, Tibbetts climbed into the pilot's seat of the last B-29 in flying condition and flew it over a crowd of 18,000 at the air show of the Confederate Air Force at Harlingen, Texas...
...Co-founder of The Catholic Worker and the Catholic Worker Movement, co-founder of New York's St...
...A lovely tribute to one who is most deserving...
...The 1974-75 edition cites 14, among them Hank Aaron, Marian Anderson, Cass Canfield, James Thomas Flexner, Katharine Graham -and Dorothy Day...
...Peter and Paul parish of dispensing "Marxist propaganda," and suspended them...
...John deedy...
...They firmed up an occupation...
...She herself has said, 'My themes deal with life and death, insanity, daughterhood, motherhood and love...
...The bishop sicked the police...
...There are no Vatican II niceties involved, just the centuries-old principle of sanctuary...
...Essentially at stake, as one parishioner phrased it, is whether the congregation may exercise a co-responsibility with its clergy in the ministry of the parish...
...Citation Who's Who in America is not the type book that one ordinarily pages through...
...On Sept...
...3 of the American League pennant playoffs...
...This was to Anne Sexton, the poet...
...How do you occupy a church...
...Vernon, Va., which has been engaged in a running dispute with pastor and bishop over the functioning of a parish council [Commonweal, 2/28/75], has had its case taken on by Rome...
...One special quality of her verse is an ability to express that knowledge women know as women," said the citation...
...And maybe Harry Truman turned in bis grave...
...It's a relatively new feature, being done only for the sixth time...
...The Good Shepherd controversy has dogged the diocese almost every minute of its existence...
...Parishioners had debated the prospective marriage for months, and had decided that they wanted their pastor to stay, marriage or no marriage...
...In Favara, the issue was joined when Bishop Giuseppe Petralia accused the two priests of SS...
...For no particular reason we were paging through the 1974-75 edition the other day, and discovered that up front-after table of contents, advisors and such standard data- Who's Who singles out a select few for what it calls Citations for Significant Contribution to Society...
...Who committed it...
...Odds and Ends -"I've never lost a night's sleep over the fact that I commanded the [Hiroshima] bombing...
...Santa Harlot If you were running a journalism class, what mark would you give a student who stretched for his lead...
...There was another equally meritorious but, as it turned out, extremely poignant tribute...
...the gray hairs I've got now come from the pressures of business," said Paul W. Tibbetts, pilot of the Enola Gay, which dropped the A-bomb Aug...
...In Gorizia, Father Alberto De Nadai was ordered by his bishop to leave his parish "for the good of his and their souls...
...An interesting idea, and an interesting list...
...John's Church had been in tension with Bishop Luigi Dardani over the nation's referendum on civil divorce...
...He refused to meet with them...
...In a move believed to be without precedent for an American congregation, the Vatican has ordered the two-year dispute submitted to arbitration...
...The crowd cheered...
...According to Religious News Service, the "Good Shepherd complaint took on considerable significance as a result of the Vatican action, indicating among other things Vatican concern for due process in the two-year-old Diocese of Arlington...
...the priest agreed...
...My poems are intensely physical.'" Anne Sexton, 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner, since died a suicide...
...and Imola, a city near Bologna...
...You reach for it, hope the truss will hold the hernia, check a name, then wrestle the book back onto the shelf...
...Italian church officials have been contending with parishioners of Holy Heart parish in Lavelk) and St...
...In Imola, parishioners of St...
...14, more than 1,000 parishioners went to see the bishop...
...Joseph's House of Hospitality (and many other houses and farms for the poor and homeless), this saintly and heroic woman has been an inspiration to the many who have encountered her immense courage...
...6, 1945...
Vol. 103 • November 1976 • No. 23
