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mews & VIEWS A Saint 8= Women's Lib What would Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (17741821), the only native-born canonized saint of the United States, have thought of our times and particularly...
...What St...
...NCAN, the coalition's newsletter, complains because for the nine national organizations of religious women, representing at various levels 128,000 American Sisters, the bishops allowed only two Lc Nouvel Obse~geur/LN'S press passes to their May meeting in Chicago...
...Elizabeth Seton would, I suspect, have had understanding and sympathy for certain aims of the Women's Liberation Movement," said Father Ellis, "as she would have approved the role envisioned for herself by the new executive of the National Organization of Women, Mrs...
...Amy and Dad...
...Donnelly does not excoriate religious communities that withdraw from hospital sponsorship...
...The newsletter continued: "In the past ten years, Sisters have seen about 40,000 of their members leave religious communities...
...two out of a total of 100...
...FhsaUM, Ass M Does anyone else find curious, or objectionable, the way President Carter uses daughter Amy to create a youth image of himself...
...H a r d l y . They marched behind the "old man" in the Inaugural parade, and they're seldom seen at wakes, weddings or fancy balls...
...Forty thousand of the least-respected, most overworked and underpaid 'hired help' have left the direct service of an oppressive Church...
...So writes Paul R. Donnelly of the Catholic Hospital Association in the June issue of Hospital Progress, the CHA journal...
...No less than 150 Catholic general hospitals have gone by the boards in the past 10 years, and if this decline continues Catholic hospitals will "at some point decrease below that 'critical mass' necessary to exert a concerted, cohesive, and continuing impact on the broader health care system...
...He sees a number of factor's at work: administrative complexities, growing involvement of the laity in management and board positions, government planning and increased public accountability--all of which are conceded to be reasons for religious congregations with an aging membership to consider withdrawing their historic sponsorship...
...It is a continual wonder that the remaining 128,000 nuns are willing to stay and serve the same Church which denies their personhood, professional worth and pastoral sensitivity born of 'front-line' experience...
...Finally, for one who experienced more than her share of frustration from the arbitrary rulings of several churchmen in the aiIairs of her religious community, she would have seen nothing incongruous about the determination of women religious today that they should be adequately represented in the policy-making decisions of the Roman Curia's Congregation for Religious when those policies touch intimately their own kind...
...The Ellis pamphlet is available from the Daughters of Charity, Scton Shrine Center, Emmitsburg, Md...
...The newsletter branded this "one more rude affront" to Sisters and "a representative sample of typical discriminatory behavior patterns" practiced by the bishops...
...Nor can I see this great lady raising strong objection to the revival of the rank of deaconess once she understood its historic place among the offices of the ancient Church...
...But a sizable part of the problem, it is specified, lies in declining vocations to religious congregations that built up and maintained more than 90 percent of these Catholic health institutions...
...The President has several children of adult age (I'd have to look up exactly how many), and he did use one of them on a public mission, to cut some ice in China...
...Eleanor C. Smeal, whose concept of women's rights was progressive enough for her to be elected to blOW's presidency, while at the same time it was sufficiently appreciative of traditional values to identify her own position as primarily that of a housewife...
...Historian John Tracy Ellis speculated on the question at the Seton Founder's Award Convocation several weeks ago in Emmitsburg, Md...
...Elizabeth would, I believe, have found difficult to accept would be the insistence of women on the right to ordination, as she would surely have frowned on the liberty taken by a few others to compose tasteless liturgies that bear scant resemblance to the texts approved for public worship in the Church...
...mews & VIEWS A Saint 8= Women's Lib What would Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (17741821), the only native-born canonized saint of the United States, have thought of our times and particularly of women's lib...
...Carter's return from her two-week, sevenration Latin American swing...
...who was it who bounded up the stairs of the plane for the TV cameras to greet Morn privately, then escort her down the stairs and to the microphones...
...The pamphlet is free, though donations will be "gratefully received...
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...In regard to other changes in the position of women in the contemporary Church, if Elizabeth's natural modesty might at first have prompted her to shy away from the reading of the Scriptures at Mass, her good judgment and common sense would have quickly adjusted to this appropriate innovation, and she would, I dare say, have come to enjoy this role, as she would likewise have welcorned the Church's opening to women's participation in the adminictration of the sacraments...
...Among other things the future of Catholicrelated hospitals in the U.S...
...But do they fit into the presidential family portrait...
...Sisters Spe~k Up Speaking of arbitrary rules and frustration among women religious, the National Coalition of American Nuns is hopping mad about "another stinging blow" dealt it by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops...
...Bms~erlt~ ms t h e Was// What do the aforementioned Sister drain, and a comcomitant drop in vocations, threaten...
...As our preeminent Catholic historian, his remarks are of special interest...
...That happy family reunion at Andrews Air Force Base, for instance, after Mrs...
...Sister Anne William, Shrine director, said the supply is limited, but individual requests can be met...
...No other kin were in sight, jomr ve.epy 8 July 1977:418...
...He does argue, however, that they have a "responsibility to themselves, to the Church, and to the people being s e r v e d . . , to be certain that all alternatives for continuing the Catholic identity of that facility are carefully identified and evaluated before any final decision is made...
Vol. 104 • July 1977 • No. 14
