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CORRESPONDENCE Bay Saint Louis, Miss. To the Editors: In reference to Mr. Christopher Vescey's article "Black Catholics" [May 27], I would like to point out that the Society of the...
...Bishop Carlos Lewis, S.V.D., of Panama...
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...Continued on page 575) N~S & VIEWS: 546 CORRESPONDENCE: 547 EDITORIAL: 547 WALSIIlNGTON REPORT: The Mind C o n t r o l l e r s : Frank Getlein 54a PROPHETIC MINORITY: lames Baker 550 A BLOW TO MINORITIES: Herbert Hill 552 'ON T i l e ORDINATION OF WOMEN': An Exchange of Vie~s 550 TIlE STAGE: William T. Liston 564 VEIISE" Lewis Turco 551...
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...It is sometimes said that while liberal theologians have been formulating heresies with impunity a conservative like Archbishop Lefebvre is shot down immediately...
...That is, the principles he invokes, quite rightly, to establish that Archbishop Lefebvre et sequaces eius have put themselves outside the pale, would, if constantly applied, give the good archbishop lots of the kind of company he does not want to keep...
...Vescey would do well to substantiate his material in the future before making inaccurate statements which will be accepted by most people as authoritative...
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...By maintaining an unswerving allegiance to that dream--by standing for conscience, opposition members such as Alan Paton and C.F...
...A modern society without them is too ghastly to contemplate...
...As for the missionary bishop involved (Lefebvre's see is Dakar), remember Archbishop Roberts...
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...In the Association for Asian Studies, to which I belong, men and women who fill such positions are both "chairpersons" but i have never yet heard any member of that organization refer to the Great Helmsman as "Chairperson Mao...
...a mission hosp|tel Is 1. great need of funds for training nurses...
...or the exceptional thirst for the buck that would make men with the God-given talents of Jimmy Breslin and Dick Schapp say yes to a publisher's offer to produce a Son of Same novel within a few months...
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...and Bishop Joseph A. Francis, S.V.D., of Newark (mentioned later on in his article...
...That should have come out, "none of our patients has died during an interview...
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...Now that I have struck my blow for the English language and have engaged in the kind of irrelevant pedantry for which academics are noted, I will shut u p . NICHOLAS l t . CLIFFORD P.S.: I resisted the temptation to correct the editorial in the Vermont Catholic Tribune this week, which, in attacking Hans Kiing, deals with the tensions which exist between "theologicans" and the "episcopy...
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...Elizabeth Kubler-Ross is quoted as writing that "one of our patients had died during an interview...
...Joanna Strangwayes-Booth has written a biography of Helen Suzman...
...RALPH MCINERHY CORRESPONDENCE (Continued ]rom page 547) As a history professor, I would think that Mr...
...or from the terrifying, violent, vengeful, juices boiling away inside otherwise ordinary citizens who now exclaim to newsmen how they would love five minutes alone with the suspect, or how they would tear him to pieces, or who stand outside the Brooklyn Central Court Building yelling, "Kill, kill...
...There is no sense in fooling around with invincible ignorance...
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...For 13 years, Helen Suzman was the only member of the Progressive Party able to win a seat in parliament...
...of Lafayette, La., and Clarence Howard, S.V.D., of Oakland, California...
...A pitifully small group, to be sure, but needed now more than ever before...
...Louis, Mississippi as is the Rector of our Divine Word College in Epworth, Iowa, the Very Rev...
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...But the hardest aspect of the tragedy to respond to is the person of the killer himself...
...But even if the abomination "chairperson" must be used, then let's use it both for men and women...
...Christopher Vescey's article "Black Catholics" [May 27], I would like to point out that the Society of the Divine Word is an international, interracial society of over 5,000 priests and Brothera composed of Europeans, North-and South Americans, Asians, Africans, Australians and Polynesians, working in 35 countries of the world...
...On another level, the killings have been almost equally terrible in what they have dramatized about human nature under stressmwhether the stress comes from fear of being gunned down in your parked car or on your neighborhood street corner...
...There is something to the complaint...
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...the real point of contention, the refusal to accept the teaching authority of the Church...
...However, the seminary has been integrated since its beginnings in the '20s, although "officially" only since 1950, because of existing laws...
...Lefebvre says the Pope is out of step with the Church and thus in heresy...
...Divine Word Missionary REPLY: I thank Reverend Kelley for his promotional statement regarding the Society of the Divine Word...
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...It is clear enough from this oddly excited little book that Yves Congar does far more than he wishes to do...
...As has been pointed out a number of times by pedants interested in maintaining the integrity of the Queen's English, the suffix "--man" is sexless...
...Terry Steib, S.V.D., Bay St...
...The parliamentary opposition to apartheid was in the hands of South Africa's Progressive Party, formed in 1959...
...men heading their committees were "chairmen" and women filling the same roles were "chairpersons...
...THE DAVID BERKOWITZ STORY The most obvious level of the tragedy in this summer's Son of Sam shootings that reduced so much of the once optimistic and glamorous New York to panic is immediate and personal: the sudden, senseless deaths of five young women and one young man and the paralysis, blinding and wounding of seven more...
...For their families and friends the pain is deep and foreverm more painful in its irrationality, since the killer killed for no other cause than the experience of killing itself...
...Louis, Mississippi, opened in the '20s for the training of black candidates for the priesthood and brotherhood for leadership roles in the Church...
...Not the biography--it is too early for that, but a book that will hearten its readers with the knowledge that the Philip Harts and Helen Suzmans walk among us...
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...Finally, in 1974, six more of her fellow Progressives were elected...
...She was the voice of her party, the outspoken conscience of the antiapartheid dream...
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...To the Editors: In my July 22 column there is a confusing typographical error...
...Bishop Harold R. Perry, S.V.D., of New Orleans...
...Why in the name of all that's holy does Sylvia Crane on p. 395 of your 24 June issue, in her very interesting article on China, refer to Hua Kuofeng, a man, as "chairman," and Teng Ying-chao, a woman, as "chairperson...
...Also, 20 pastors in parishes staffed by SVD's are black...
...Consider these parallels: as ostensible point of contention, the Mass of Pius V or contraception...
...Leonard Olivier, S.V.D., and two Vicars, the Reverends Mark Figaro, S.V.D...
...Beyers Naud~ have become legendary...
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...Prominent Catholic laymen, such as Ambassador Wilbert Lemelle of Kenya, Prime Minister George Price of Belize, are among the many outstanding black leaders who attended St...
...Of the more than 400 SVD's in the United States, there are less than 70 black SVD priests and Brothers...
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...or from the journalists who lust to grab a "scoop" and sell more newspapers, no matter what the truth or consequences of spreading the "scoop" across the page (such as the New York Post's "MOBSTERS JOIN HUNT, GODFATHER ORDERS: GET SAM" and its "HOW I BECAME A MASS KILLER By David Berkowitz," which was actually some letters he had written years before...
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...Our goal is to continue to develop Black leadership at all levels . . . today, one of the four provincials in the U.S.A., is a Black, Very Rev...
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...I recall reading that Paul VI, not accepting the "consensus of the faithful" on contraception, was a heretic...
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...or from the politician's need to get reelected, to somehow demonstrate through hastily called press conferences that he is in control when the city seems to be losing its collective head...
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