Editorials
CORRESPONDENCE Ceurage and R i s k Heidelberg, West Germany To the Editors: Your editorial on "The Yorkville Report" [Mar. 4] proved my fears to be reality. The loss of belief in the...
...Then perhaps more people would see an answer to their wanderings for inner peace and trust in the hereafter...
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...We cannot disassociate ourselves from the not so righteous or constantly condemn someone's actions from the pulpit (speaking of personal life and not about a maaman like Amin...
...The Pope interpreted Broderick's attempt to stress the implications of his lack o f assignment as a threat to cause scandal...
...We believe that Cardinal Knox has not only distorted what took place in the Memphis diocese, but also that he is imposing a much too narrow concept of what is possible under the new (1972) pastoral norms for general sacramental absolution, the norms under which Bishop Dozier acted...
...Are you ashamed of yours...
...Broderick died in 1943 as an Auxiliary Bishop of New York...
...The loss of belief in the mysteries of the faith has to be everyone's concern and fault...
...Analogies are never exact things, and one man's fate is not necessarily another's...
...Forgive me if I make the solution sound simple, because everyone knows that giving up on ourselves is about all that is easy in this life...
...similarly, it is dismaying that the New York Times should be able to speak of Dozier's presence among U.S...
...Twenty-one of the diocese's twenty-nine parishes reported substantial increases in individual confessions duzing Holy Week this year, in some cases these being more than double that of the year before...
...We have to be willing to sacrifice our time to convey Christ's image in all parts of our live& Not necessarily by preaching, that usually serves to disperse people, but by using that time for the betterment of the community...
...Rome has been known to act impulsive.ly before...
...Cardinal Knox has taken a public stand, and he is not likely to back down from it...
...Broderick was reduced to pumping gas for a living in a small New York upstate commtmity, until thirty years later when he was relocated and the problem straightened out, with Cardinal Spellman's mediatorship and Rome's blessing...
...The suffering is incalculable...
...To restrict a bishop's freedom of responsible pastoral adaptation to the point where, in effect, he has no such freedom is to reduce him to the status of an agent for higher ecclesiastical authorities or peers whom he cannot readily convince of his people's needs...
...Garrett FitzGerald, the Irish Foreign Mini.qter...
...The clash between Rome and Memphis is joined on issues inherent in those sentences, so that what is involved ultimately in the current contention is more than a man in Tennessee and any cause of his...
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...I see a world ahead only as bright as the light of Christ we let shine, so let us not be too proud to bruise our knees from prayer, or have stiff backs from helping a neighbor...
...In correspondence with the Pope, then Plus X, Broderick pointed out that this situation of a bishop being without a place to go or work to do would be viewed as a scandal in Catholic America...
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...They proceeded on five months of careful preparation, on broad consultation with brother bishops-and they produced strong positive results...
...hierarchy than f o r them t o take a closer look at what Dozier did in Memphis last Advent and, where appropriate, for them to do likewise within their authority as bishops of dioceses...
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...If this is not enough to make the American bishops react courageously and supportively to the Dozier initiatives--and his plight, should it come to that--then they are without respect...
...The examples of Lourdes and Fatima are too wonderful to keep hushed up...
...At the same time, we would like to see some stronger indications, if only symbolic, from the American hierarchy that they intend to stand by their colleague in Memphis...
...Cardinal Knox has unleashed an official public criticism of Dozier...
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...In point of fact, the personal stakes are much higher for Dozier...
...Broderick was returned to the United States, where he found himself without see or duties...
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...This would be quite contrary to that ancient theological tradition in the Church which sees the bishop as a legitimate pastor precisely in virtue of his ordination to that office...
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...If any need encouragement, let them reflect on some words of the earlier-cited Liturgical Conference statement: "The present silences of the general law presumably leave some freedom for the local bishop to adapt the rites of reconciliation according to his considered assessment of the special pastoral needs of his diocese...
...If people were made more aware of what faith has accomplished, perhaps they would see an alternative to "jumping off bridges" to solve problems...
...Nevertheless, we cannot help fearing that there is something of the communications breakdown, and potential for human tragedy, of the Broderick case in the controversy that has built to such tense proportiom between Cardinal James Knox of the Vatican's Congregation for Sacraments and Divine Worship and Bishop Carroll T. Dozier of t~e Diocese of Memphis, Tenn...
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...This freedom of adaptation is necessary if the bishop is to fulfill his role as a pastor, a discerner of the Spirit among the people he serves...
...Dozier, in turn, certain that his liturgies have been grossly misinterpreted by the Curia official, has charged Knox with using "very loose wordage in a form of a public reprimand which could ruin my career with my fellow bishops...
...We cannot be afraid of the streets when a person's soul is at stake...
...At issue, of course, in the contention between the two Commonweal: 355 are Bishop Dozier's reconciliation liturgies of last Advent, during the conducting of which some 13,500 persons were offered general absolution and communion...
...When he learns the weekend road accident toll for the whole of the U.S...
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...A moratorium on the building of schools is a form of faithlessness in itself, a fear that funds will run out...
...These facts make strong debater's points on Dozier's side...
...Rather, it is the integrity, the freedom, the pastoral authority of each and every individual Ordinary of a diocese...
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...Nothing would testify more strongly to the seriousness and backbone of the U.S...
...The Church (meaning us) must set forth the example given to us by Christ...
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...It is no secret where our sympathies lie in this quarrel between Rome and Memphis, and thus--should the matter come to denouement--which of the two contending principals we would prefer to see end up pumping gas...
...As the American Liturgical Conference said in a recent open letter to the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "The central pastoral issue is not 'Under what circumstances may general absolution be given?' but 'How can people and ministers responsibly seek reconciliation and healing in their daily lives?'" In this context, there can be no doubt about the responsible character of the two Memphis liturgies, nor any question about their salutary effects...
...Share a greeting, 'cause noses stuck in the air only show people ashamed of their surroundings...
...as with Broderick, his career in the Church could be ruined...
...Indeed, if he is like some other men, he could even be goaded into more drastic action, unwise and unjust, the consequences of which could be enormously greater than any to date...
...Rome cut him adrift...
...In due course Broderick became an auxiliary bishop of Havana, and was fulfilling an honorable and meritorious mission until he fell out of blessing with a new Apostolic Delegate to Cuba, an American archbishop from New Orleans...
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...This doesn't mean we should go on some wild spending spree, but the Lord hasn't let us down yet for these near 2000 years...
...And maybe the Church should show a little more courage and risk its wealth to pass on a richer message...
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...In the light of that worry, if no other, we would opt for a deescalation of rhetoric, including in Memphis...
...MEMPHIS After the Spanish-American War, a priest of the Diocese of Hartford, Conn., Bonaventure F. Broderick, was tapped by the auditor of the Apostolic Delegation in Washington to accompany him to Havana on matters concerning relations between the United States government and the Catholic Church in Cuba...
...Making full allowance for the workings of journalistic license, it is disconcerting that the National Catholic Reporter should be able to interpret as "sniping" some statements about Dozier by the president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Joseph Bernardin...
...However, the controversy between Rome and Memphis has developed to the stage where debater's points may not only be meaningless, but could boomeraag...
Vol. 104 • June 1977 • No. 12
