News & Views
NEWS & VIEWS Hear, Hear Some plain talk from the Secretary for Education of the U.S, Catholic Conference, Msgr. Olin Murdick, for dioceses bucking Catholic teachers' unions: "To pose...
...Also, according to the instruction, "It is suggested that the rituals at the beginning and end of Mass afford the homilist an opportunity to indicate that the deceased was a citizen of two worlds: loyally serving one's country is not only compatible with Christianity, but a part of true Christian service to one's community...
...Fishy P o l i t i c s If you're wondering why Russia didn't react like a harpooned whale over U.S...
...In March, these waters became part of Russia's 200-mile economic zone, and as of this writing the Russians have refused to allow the Japanese to fish within the zone, even for a fee...
...Red faces, too, at NC New Service, which on page 18 of its April 7 service, had Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin praying at a prolife convention that "through word and example may we always give witness to the sacredness of life, from the moment of contraception until death...
...Red faces at the New York Times, which on April 14 needed a hefty corrections' box to unscramble an April 13 editorial titled, alas, "Zaire Made Clear...
...Ostensible sticking point is Russian insistence that their 200-mile zone includes waters surrounding four islands north of Hokkaido, which the Russians occupied during World War II but which the Japanese insist are still theirs...
...Reportedly he is preparing a report for the Vatican, and dissidents fear that a decision on the dispute will be "made in Rome" based on that report...
...All Japanese fishing boats were withdrawn on March 31...
...But the real trouble, according to The Economist, is that the Russians are using fish as an excuse for raising almost every disagreement that they have with Japan...
...The dissidents' negotiating team balked at that, charging a change in focus and ground rules...
...Odds and Ends - - T h e saints may have suffered something of an eclipse in recent years, but the value of their letters is holding up . . . in the collector's market...
...Japan lives on fish, and about one-sixth of this fish comes from seas off the east coast of Siberia...
...Murdick's remarks were made at a panel discussion at the recent National Catholic Educational Association Convention in San Francisco...
...to study a top-secret plane landed in Japan by a defecting Soviet pilot), and Japan's warming relations with China, which Russia disapproves of strongly...
...Bishop Hodges summoned the respective parties for a discussion on "positive efforts for unity in the parish...
...Bishop Hodges cited Bishop Welsh for his "positive approach," and expressed disappointment "with the other side...
...News & Views, 11/5/76] It turns out not to have been so historic after all, at least in terms of results...
...Bishop Welsh takes the traditional point of view that the parish council is set up to advise the parish...
...JOHN DEEDY 13 May 1977:290...
...These include last fall's Mig 25 incident (when the Japanese allowed the U.S...
...It couldn't, at least not gracefully, for it is being even tougher about Japanese boats within its 200-mile water zone...
...Alphonsus Ligouri for $500, and a 1659 letter of St...
...It is preferable," says the instruction, "that the flag on the coffin be replaced by the pall" for the services...
...Arbitration " has broken, with Bishop Thomas J. Welsh of Arlington and dissidents at Good Shepherd parish in Alexandria accusing each other of acting in bad faith and not confronting the real issue in the three-year-old dispute...
...Negotiations are at an impasse...
...Vincent de Paul for $875...
...What it all translates to, in The Economist's words, is that "Russia has Japan by its fish-eating throat...
...seizures of its fishing boats recently in New England waters, The Economist of London for April 16 may furnish a clue...
...We are called to render to God what is God's, and to Caesar what is Caesar's...
...As for the flag, it should be folded "with the respect which is due it" upon entrance into the church...
...Good Shepherd dissidents claim that Vatican II gave the laity a shared responsibility in decision-making...
...S t a r s , S t r i p e s & P a l l The Liturgical Commission of the Archdiocese of New York, with characteristic American Catholic Godand-country sensitivity, has issued an instruction of the use of the pall and the national flag at funeral services...
...The flag may then be carried in the funeral procession, on a cushion or tray, with medals or other insignia," to be placed again upon the casket at the conclusion of the Eucharist or the funeral service...
...They asked a postponement until Rome clarified the purpose of the arbitration...
...No matter how high a priority Catholic schools have among Catholic people, one is not justified in denying to teachers the right, collectively, to ask for a living wage . . . . "If, in a last analysis, a given Catholic community cannot afford a Catholic school, it has no right to impose upon its teachers an unjust salary schedule, or to deny to teachers the right to participate collectively in the determination of that fact...
...Virginia Update Remember that "historic," Vatican-approved arbitration between a bishop and members of a Virginia parish that was to have helped settle the question whether a parish council is an advisory or a decision-making group...
...An upstate New York autographs' house is offering a 1737 letter of St...
...Olin Murdick, for dioceses bucking Catholic teachers' unions: "To pose the economic difficulty for Catholic schools in complying with union demands is to argue that the end justifies the means...
...At the same time, "it is most important that the pall not be seen as an 'anti-war,' 'antimilitary,' or any other gesture than the positive statement of the Christian dignity of the one being commended to God...
...Any future meetings will depend on the Vatican," Liberation News Service said Bishop Joseph Hodges of Wheeling-Charleston, West Va., the prelate named by the Vatican to arbitrate the contending points of view...
Vol. 104 • May 1977 • No. 10
