CORRESPONDENCE
CORRESPONDENCE People of God Rolling Hills Est, Ca. to the Editors: George A. Lindbeck's well-meant generalizations in "The Catholic Crisis" [Feb. 13] regarding contemporary Catholicism hardly fit...
...Catholics still have faith in the organic gracing of human culture as an extension of the incarnation of Christ...
...Humanity...
...It seems naive to believe that one can in the name of pluralism, remain a willing captive of Roe v. Wade's viability-based criterion for human rights and then go on to defend the vulnerable and oppressed with consistency, credibility, and integrity intact...
...Continued on page 286) CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 261) Certainly, those weighted with the first insights into the evil of America's Vietnam involvement would have been morally negligent if they had quieted their immediate concerns or compromised their long-range objectives in the face of a misinformed though strong public opinion...
...How these facts demand our resignation to the legal straitjacket of the Supreme Court's abortion decision escapes me...
...There seems to be a preference among Protestants for a singular type of Christian model, which could rarely represent more than the ten percent that Lindbeck estimates of any but a specialized congregation, certainly not one that includes a broad spectrum of humanity...
...27], one must question Commonweal's grasp of the nature of change in the democratic state...
...Those masses, so quickly scanned in the article are for us "the people," the people of God...
...ADRIAN TORRES Abortion Opposed Bronx, N.Y...
...It is not too difficult to undertake the unpopular cause, nurturing the desired consensus, when consoled by the knowledge that one suffers one's dissenter status in the company of society's most enlightened...
...Concerning the hierarchy and die 1976 campaigns, the foolishness of the shepherds need not be imitated by the flock...
...KEVIN M. DOYLE...
...Still, the concerned laity does not owe it to balance ecclesiastical fanaticism with their own defeatism...
...Much warranted apologies for the political and social offenses of individuals such as Cardinal Cooke should not be served through a sacrifice of genuine Christian imperatives...
...13] regarding contemporary Catholicism hardly fit the religion which permeates the culture and the consciousness of the Hispanic people (who comprise one-third of the Catholics in the United States...
...It seems, however, that when the practical politics of abortion require Catholic liberals to abandon comfortable ideological milieus the quixoticism vanishes...
...Commonweal, with its widely respected record as a fighter of social injustice, must know by now that political majorities must be worked at...
...Rub-ing elbows with the modern heirs to the Inquisition is pretty distasteful even for the sake of protecting human rights, lives may be at stake but who wants to associate with those who give Catholicism a name which the Church progressives spend half their day dispelling...
...It is that profound Christianity for which they bear an almost unshakable attachment through every variety of human vicissitude, which forms the ground for the hoped for and needed renewal...
...If the bishops have committed themselves to an exercise in political ineptitude in order to exhibit the survival of old-time pulpit-power we need not follow suit...
...That's the issue...
...To the Editors: After reading'your editorial, "Politics and Abortion" [Feb...
...It is noted that there is not a broad "ecumenical grass-roots opposition to abortion" and that in fact a strong support for a woman's right to an early-term abortion does exist...
Vol. 103 • April 1976 • No. 9
