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EWS & VIEWS Indictments in Order Two priests have been charged with negligent homicide in the death of the 23year-old West German woman, Anneliese Michel, who tmderwent exorcism ["The...
...Joseph J. Fahey, Manhattan College, Riverdale, N.Y., 10471...
...The National Coalition of American Nuns, continuing to speak out on "secular" affairs, has taken a position against the neutron bomb...
...secondly, the Vatican itself is often criticized for lack of access to its own files...
...Police said that, although Bishop Stangl appointed Fathers AIt and Renz to conduct the rites, he did not have direct contact with Miss Michel during the exorcism and did not know she was receiving medical attention...
...EWS & VIEWS Indictments in Order Two priests have been charged with negligent homicide in the death of the 23year-old West German woman, Anneliese Michel, who tmderwent exorcism ["The Devil, Demons & Dogmatism," by Ronald Modras, Commonweal, 2/4/77...
...Father Renz went on German tcle- Bonnike, "we're feeling pretty vision with tapes of the ex- good" about the high receporcism sessions and identified tivity percentages of Ohio the voices of two demons in and Kentucky...
...On Leonard Woodcock to China and Mike Mansfield to Japan, The Economist is tentative...
...Four years of medical treatment had failed to cure the woman of seizures and convulsions during which she "spoke" in strange tongues and engaged in other "demonic" acts...
...Until now, however, there has been no clue as to the reception they would get from the celibate clergy who did not leave...
...they "are probably more likely to have a direct line of communication to Mr...
...The family doctor refused to sign the death certificate and called in the local prosecutor...
...Workshop leaders will include Dr...
...Carter than would someone who is not personally known at the White House...
...would return to the ministry if welcomed by the Church hierarchy...
...It was prompted by gaps in the narrative--gaps which were more frequent and broader in the later chapters, as anyone might guess...
...Details from Dr...
...If we develop it...
...Opposed were 44.9 percent (Ohio) and 48.3 percent (Kentucky...
...The drama followed the showing of the movie The Exorcist in that country...
...Amen to that...
...The criticism was made by M.G...
...4 to 6, with focus on the nonviolence of Dr...
...The Michel case caused a storm of outrage and controversy in West Germany, and charges of theological hysteria were leveled...
...They "are bound to win cooperation and admiration," The Economist predicts...
...Miss Michel as those of Hitler and Nero...
...CORPUS, a national association of married Catholic priests, plans to survey the whole country, and will withhold definitive judgments until then...
...Rodewyk escaped by way of the same determination...
...Eric Gallagher of Belfast, Northern Ireland...
...Martin [.uther King...
...Meanwhile, said CORPUS facilitator Frank J. Excellent Their Excellencies?," The Economist of London rates President Carter's diplomatic appointments...
...On two appointments, The Economist is enthusiastic: Kingman Brewster, late of Yale and now of Grosvenor Square...
...An appropriate !heine for an appropriate place...
...I~'ords to t h e Unwise From an unlikely source an apt bit of criticism . . . . L'Osservatore Romano has published a book review which takes American dioceses to task for limiting access of scholars and historians to diocesan archives by considering them the "personal property" of bishops...
...Caravaglios in reviewing a new History o/ the Archdiocese o/ Philadelphia, by Msgr...
...The neutron bomb cannot be developed in isolation from history...
...Miss Michel died July 1 1976 of "undernourishment and dehydration," having spurned food or drink and wasted away to some 60 pounds...
...Named in the indictment were Fathers Ernst Alt and Wilhelm Renz, who conducted the exorcism rites on the university student in a church-approved attempt to free her of demons...
...losers...
...A neurologist consulted in the case had a more plausible explanation for Miss MichtTs ailment: she suffered from epilepsy...
...One of the exorcists stuck by his diagnosis...
...Wonder...
...The new ambasasdors to Belgium and Australia, Anne Cox Chambers and Philip Alston, are seen falling at least partially within Carter's campaign excoriation of "fat, bloated, ignorant, rich, major contributors to a presidential campaign...
...Having no opinion or not clearly indicating opinion were 5.3 and 4.2 percent, respectively...
...Sister Judith Schloegel, president, has written President Carter: "The USSR accuses the United States of defying our own human rights code by developing the neutron bomb _9 . . We must agree in this one instance with the Russians...
...JOHN DEEDY 19 August 1977:514...
...Going 'Home" Again There is evidence that as many as one-third of the more than 10,000 married Catholic priests in the U.S...
...Odds and Ends - - P a x Christi USA will hold its fourth annual conference in Memphis Nov...
...And if it is ever used, all of us without exception will be tht...
...James F. Connelly...
...He gets mixed marks...
...Convinced that it is important for themselves and for the bishops to know the attitudes of these priests, CORPUS---Corps of Reserve Priests United for Service---recently surveyed the clergy of Ohio and Kentucky on the question of receptivity...
...One appointment it finds "clearly imaginative": that of ex-Commonweal columnist and New York Times editorialist William Shannon to Dublin...
...Ambassadors Rated how he recognized Nero's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Under the caption "How voice...
...we will use it...
...and Robert Goheen, late of Princeton and now of New Delhi...
...or someone with whom we share the bomb will use it...
...Ex-Governor Patrick Lucey of Wisconsin is said to have "few qualifications to be ambassador in Mexico City," and Saudi Arabia, The Economist feels, would be better served by a career diplomat than by the ex-Governor of South Carolina, John West...
...and Mrs...
...RNS's correspondent saw two ironies in Osservatore's review: It was published when tens of thousands of Americans were in Rome for the canonization of John Nepomecene Neumann, the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia...
...It found 50 percent of Ohio clergy and 47.5 percent of Kentucky clergy in favor of the resumption of priestly ministry by willing, resigned priests who have married...
...Not named in the indictment was Bishop Josef Stangl of Wuerzburg, who had approved the rites on the recommendation of an 82year-old Jesuit "authority" on exorcism, one Father Rudolf Rodewyk...
Vol. 104 • August 1977 • No. 17
