News & Views
mEWS & VIEWS N..ns as JaUers A curious piece of information cropped up in two Religious News Service stories of May 16 dealing with the detention of 33 Americans in Bolivian jails...
...That tide, which appeared to he irreversible last January when a committee of Anglican and Roman Catholic theologians offered a vision of the churches reuniting under a modified form of papal supremacy [Commonweal, 2/18/77], has been undertowed by Anglican ordination of women and by Rome's resistance anew to the suggestion of intercommunion...
...I honestly believe people have resigned themselves to a dollar a gallon," he says...
...He added only that that was the way all women prisoners in La Paz were kept in custody during the several years he had been stationed there...
...RNS identified the Bolivian nuns as belonging to the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, founded in France in 1641 and headquartered in Rome, with a Bolivian province (and five in the U.S...
...When a reporter expressed surprise at such an arrangement, the priest, who remained anonymous out of fear of reprisals against the imprisoned Americans or other missionaries, was at a loss to explain...
...This is not a notion shared by The Tablet...
...It's the availability...
...Doubtful, say I. No, says Dave Altman of the recreational vehicle industry...
...The unity train, which has seemed to be gathering speed, has come to a halt," said The Economist...
...The "head warden, s' a nun, locked them back in the basement at 7:45 p.m., she stated...
...Still, The Tablet isn't giving up...
...His concern: That the American Church will soon look like Churches in other countries---"filled with old people lost in devotion...
...The Economist is not disconsolate over this seeming development...
...It has long felt that "two domes were better than one," and that a single church organization could in fact lead to more disunity than the churches hitherto have known...
...The men were removed...
...These are chiefly in the moral field . . . . it is here where Catholic suspicions of Anglicanism are most obstinate, here where clarification would do most to quiet the fears of those to whom dogma means little and morals, especially sex morals, almost everything...
...The energies available for further dialogue should now be channeled in other directions," it commented...
...mEWS & VIEWS N..ns as JaUers A curious piece of information cropped up in two Religious News Service stories of May 16 dealing with the detention of 33 Americans in Bolivian jails for from one to three years, most of them on narcotics charges, and all but four untried in the courts...
...My guess: People will pay much more than a dollar a gallon to keep wheels under them...
...Reunf~m's Detour Two of England's leading opinion journals--The Tablet, Cathollc...
...Geriatric C a t h ~ Better watch out, says Father Eugene Kennedy, M.M...
...Od~ ~ E ~ ----Can Americans ever be made energy conservators by higher and higher gasoline taxes, as President Carter would have it...
...It was that in La Paz, the American women prisoners are incarcerated in a secured compound, of which the Good Shepherd Sisters are in charge...
...the American Church is getting old...
...Both were disappointed with the results of the meeting, but while The Tablet was lamenting the lack of sympathy in Rome for Anglican-Roman Catholic convergence, The Economist was accenting the dissipation of "false expectations...
...Asked by RNS why she and other women prisoners in La Paz were incarcerated in a convent, she declared obliquely that until about 15 years ago men and women prisoners were kept in the same prison there...
...Some further light was shed by Michelle Fryer, 22, of Pottsdown, Pa., who was released by Bolivian authorities on May 14 and who appeared before the press in the office of Senator H. John Heinz (R-Pa...
...It is anxious for unity and is annoyed that Canterbury "is content to drift with the tide," while Rome by and large "does not want to know that there is a tide...
...State Department on behalf of the "beleaguered Americans...
...The price is not the problem at all...
...The Bolivian government pays the nuns for this activity, he declared...
...However, I can see focuses shifting by the time of this reading to the nun issue --as well it might...
...They'll Fay as Europeans pay, and in some parts of Europe gasoline is $2.40 a gallonl JOHN DEEDY I0 June 1977:354...
...Also, "mainstay supporters are on the brink of old age, or making their way up the slippery steps of middle age...
...Priests and nuns are aging, and their care "has become a major burden...
...to 6:30 p.m., regardless of the weather...
...At the time of this writing, news focuses were primarily on the "inadequate action" of the U.S...
...The Economist, general--have taken remarkably contrasting positions of the recent meeting in Rome of the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr...
...They were moved to the courtyard of the convent daily, and remained there from 9 a.m...
...The fact was conveyed offhandedly by a recently returned Catholic missionary priest...
...Coggan, and Pope Paul VI...
...Now it urges that Rome and Canterbury use the pause in momentum to ask themselves whether indeed they have "a common faith sufficient to be translated into communion of life, worship and mission...
...She told of nearly 11 months' imprisonment in the sisters' compound...
...But then the nuns, out of the 'graciousness' of their hearts, asked that they be allowed to keep the women prisoners," and the government agreed...
...It doubts they do...
...The corporal works of mercy ask the visiting of the imprisoned, not the enforcement of their prison terms...
...Miss Fryer, a Lutheran, explained that she and 67 others, most of them Bolivians, were kept in the basement of the convent, with no privacy and in an area built to accommodate 35 persons...
...RNS reported Miss Fryer as speaking "with unconcealed sarcasm...
...In any case, sa)~s The Economist, presuming that a Christian revival is possible, "a secular newspaper may be forgiven for saying that . . . competition is no bad thing...
...Eleven senators, for instance, made public a letter to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance demanding that the situation in Bolivia be given his personal attention and that contact at the highest level of the Bolivian government be initiated...
Vol. 104 • June 1977 • No. 12
