NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS& VIEWS Holding the Line The advisability of continuing the traditional method for receiving holy communion (host placed on tongue by ministering person) at last came before the American...
...bishops as a body twice earlier rejected attempts to initiate communion-in-the-hand, a practice common in Europe and Canada...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...During discussion it was noted that if there is a swine flu or other epidemic, each bishop is already empowered, under general principles of church law, to take whatever action might be necessary in the diocese...
...Which, of course, translates to no action...
...Weinstein pointed out that since the flu virus "is present in the upper respiratory tract" the traditional method of distributing communion "is fraught with the danger of passing the virus from a person who has the disease to a number of persons who do not...
...The Chronicle said that Catholics in Lithuania were "particularly disturbed by the Communist attempt to compromise the bishop and two other beloved priests, Father Pranas Raciunas and Father Jonas Juodelis, both veterans of labor camps, by including them in the delegation...
...Three days after the election, when other victorious candidates were heading for vacation retreats, Drinan left on a 10-day fact-finding mission to Argentina on behalf of Amnesty International to study the "terrible repressions of Jews and Catholics there...
...A Brentano's ad in the Nov...
...It was perhaps his most significant election victory, as it was the first time that he was required to run "head-on" without a third-party candidate to split opposition votes...
...He suggested the bishops consider the more sanitary communion-in-the-hand method, propping the request with a statement from Dr...
...The U.S...
...Louis Weinstein, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an expert on infectious diseases...
...If this plan were to materialize," the editors of an underground paper claimed, "it would be the worst tragedy in our religious life...
...Adds The New Yorker, whimsically: "It's also the color of currency, which is what really turns us on...
...The phrase translates to a charge of collusion with the regime...
...2, achieving a plurality of 8,717 in a contest that had 206,689 votes being cast...
...Incidentally, one report out of Argentina has the Vatican refusing to ask the Argentine military government to allow deposed President Maria Es-tela de Peron to seek asylum in a convent in Spain...
...Fundamental preventative health procedures are taken prior to the coming of an epidemic rather than trying to stop it once it has arrived," said the telegram...
...The rector of the seminary, the Rev...
...What did the bishops' administrative board do...
...Cheers for Drinan Robert F. Drinan, the Jesuit in Congress, won his race for a fourth House term on Nov...
...Since the beginning of the year, politically-inspired violence has claimed some 1,000 lives in Argentina, including the murder of nine Catholic priests...
...Peron is under arrest, charged with various counts -many no doubt political- of manipulating state funds for her personal benefit...
...At their recent meeting in Washington, the 48-member administrative board of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops agreed to consider a warning by a health specialist that the traditional method was a health hazard to recipients...
...John Brennan, a Boston man associated with a research institute specializing in oral hygiene, contended that the priest's or eucharistic minister's fingers may come in contact with saliva-carrying germs or viruses and transfer these from one communicant to another...
...They turned the matter down as an agenda item for all the bishops...
...According to the clandestine Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania, opposition to Butkus has been directed to Cardinal Antonio Samore of the Vatican's Council for the Public Affairs of the Church and a former Pro-Nuncio to Lithuania, and to Cardinal Joseph Slipyi, primate of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, now living in exile in Rome...
...Lithuania The "moderate/liberal" division in the Lithuanian Catholic community [Commonweal, 7/16/76] has taken another tense turn in that land which is now part of the Soviet Union, with a controversy over who is to become Archbishop of Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital...
...New Marian devotions continue to spring up all over the place...
...NEWS& VIEWS Holding the Line The advisability of continuing the traditional method for receiving holy communion (host placed on tongue by ministering person) at last came before the American bishops in a health context...
...They didn't spend long with the matter...
...This was the first time they had given specific attention to possible health problems...
...V. Butkus, is an active participant in the Communist peace movement...
...The same issue of the Chronicle (#23) reported the refusal of the- impeded Apostolic Administrator of Vilnius, Bishop Julius Stepo-navicius, to join the "government-picked Lithuanian delegation" to last August's Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia...
...Many, presumably moderates, fear a "compromise" between the Vatican and the Communist regime in Lithuania that would allow a pro-Communist priest to become the Archbishop...
...It's not the safest place to be these days, and Drinan deserves a lot of credit for taking the mission on...
...Under the arrangement, Bishop Vincen-tas Sladkevicius, the impeded Bishop of Kaisiadorys, would be allowed to resume his post, while the rector of a Lithuanian seminary, Father V. But-kus, would be named to the Vilnius post...
...Brennan, joined by his wife, fired off a telegram protesting the pigeon-holing of the warning...
...The former President is alleged to have sought the intervention of Argentine Papal Nuncio Pio Laghi, who refused...
...The trip was anything but a junket...
...Amnesty International, a London-based human rights organization, estimates that 20,000 persons have been arrested and jailed without charges by the new military government there...
...6 New York Times announces "Puccini's Madonna Butterfly...
...Mrs...
...This one, however, is green, which is the symbol of hope and encouragement...
...Odds and Ends - "Most rejection slips are blue," reads the Catholic Digest's rejection notice, "which is the way one usually feels when a manuscript is returned...
Vol. 103 • December 1976 • No. 25
