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...At least it did to his Georgia friends, the little band of outsiders to national politics who had staked their careers and fortunes on the wild gamble that~ the American people, now disillusioned by the corruption, venality and hollow cynicism of the Nixon administration, were suddenly ready to make one of their people President...
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...One of the saddest effects "of this deep liturgical malaise is the great erosion of genuine liturgical piety...
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...It behooves the Church to pay heed to what truth there is in the Archbishop's movement, despite the clearly wrongheadedness of that movement...
...Fhis is not merely nostalgia for the old ways, although this is certainly an important factor in this insistence on the Tridentine rite...
...But I wish to point out that in most heretical or sectarian movements in the Church's history, there is an element of rightful protest and of truth, even if that truth be perverted...
...they wring their hands and wonder whether the ordinary citizen can possibly be trusted to know when it is appropriate to exercise the first right only and when it might be appropriate to exercise both...
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...To the Editors: I cannot help but agree with the sentiments expressed in Margo Hammond's article "Archbishop Lefebvre's Religion" [July 8...
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...That any real piety should flow from a Eucharist carried out as if it were a town meeting (and that even without the genuine Protestant-individualistic flavor of such events), is an exceedingly dubious prospect...
...To the Editors: One line in Michael True's article on a "People's Parish" [Commonweal, Aug...
...Archbishop of Lefebvre's movement may turn us off, and for very good reason...
...A major component of the knowledge ind u s t r y - i n political discussions a component so controversial as often to be taken for the whole--is the intellectuals...
...One factor which killed off much of this piety was the combination of the typical either-or mentality of the Roman authorities and the ,strange puritanism of the Catholic liberals, both of whom saw it, and continue to see it, as their duty to repress and abolish all forms of piety which flourished before Vatican II...
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...A significant number of parishes have moved beyond the rather gloomy description Mr...
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...PETER STEINFELS N a t i v e Tongues Youngstown, N.Y...
...And he was Carter's personal banker and friend...
...I thank him, however, for his bibliographical suggestion about the "new class...
...5] has been jang30 September 1977:610 ling my nerves ever since I read it: "(divorced Catholics) are reluctant to remarry unless a priest officiates at the ceremony...
...To the Editors: Michael True's article of August 5th on the Community of the Living Spirit documented one of the remarkable phenomena of Archbishop Cousins's administration of the Milwaukee Archdiocese: the ability to let competent people devise creative responses to pressing needs with a minimum of interference or obstruction...
...And I looked forward to seeing the real fruits of the work of these men who fought so hard for reform of the eucharistic rites in the liturgical celebrations of the Mass in the parish churches...
...The same personal financial practices that enabled him to work his way to the top of Georgia banking and politics--using his bank's resources, through huge overdrafts, and the bank's plane in his 1974 campaign for the governorship...
...getting personal loans from banks where he had placed his own bank's funds in interest-free accounts--made him a dubious choice, certainly well below Carter's promise of "the best," for national responsibility...
...Ah, what a show that will be...
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...If the monsignor thinks my scholarship is as dishonest as he says it is, he ought to appeal to these highex authorities to have me thrown out...
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...Nor would it he recognized as the great celebration of praise and thanksgiving by the leaders of the liturgical movement, from Abbot Vonier to Dora Gregory Dix...
...But Bert Lance was vulnerable from the beginning...
...Now I could fill a book with generalizations, mostly uncomplimentary, which Father Greeley has tossed off about intellectuals, professors, academics, etc., with nary a nod to "such things as data...
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...and I would do anything to give him a fair break, including stating that, to my knowledge, he has never, never, attacked the knowledge industry...
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...On the subject of factsmnot that they matter much at Commonwealm will someone please ask Peter Steinfels where I attacked the knowledge industry...
...It is also a protest against the state of the liturgy in the contemporary Roman Catholic Church in the United States...
...An experimental community functions very nicely in a fashion similar to a religious community in terms of expanding people's vision of what the Christian life can mean in a practical way...
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...The Archbishop's stand undermines those very concept* of Catholicism and authority that he claims to he upholding against the "post-Vatican H Church...
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...The complete lack of majesty, the abolition of nearly all ceremonial, the lack of understanding of the important role of aesthetics in the liturgy--all of these factors have produced a most sad state of affairs in the liturgical life of the Roman Catholic Church today in America...
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...The exercise would be tedious and unprofitable...
...However, it is also subject to the same dangers as a religious community in that it can grow away from contact with the average Catholic in the pew and can become increasingly alienated from them...
...Peter might just want to look at it...
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...To the Editors: One of the two priests charged in the death of a West German woman who underwent exorcism, went on German TV with tapes of the exorcism sessions and identified the voices of two demons in the woman as those of Hitler and Nero [News & Views, August 19...
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...I remember being excited in the early sixties, reading the works of Louis Bouyer, Josef Jungmann, and other leaders of the twentieth century liturgical movement, whose roots go back another hundred years...
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...It seemed obvious that Bert Lance would have to follow Jimmy Carter, Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell to Washington...
...But to attend the normal Sunday parish Mass in a Roman Catholic Church, despite the objective joy of being at the Eucharist, is more often than not for me an occasion of great pain...
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...But it should make us take a hard look at what has happened to the liturgical life of the Roman Catholic Church...
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...As for the New Class, I'm sure no one there is interested in such things as data, but there is a fine doctoral dissertation done at SUNY-Buffalo by James Barry on the subject...
...Is this a threatening trend...
...But what has really been the major force in the destruction of liturgical piety in the Roman Catholic Church is simply the uninspired and unliturgical manner in which the eucharistic liturgy is being celebrated in most parish churches...
...The National Opinion Research Center is not my company, much less my "entity" (Monsignor does remember his Latin, doesn't he...
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...And the fault lies not in the rites themselves, which do have infelicities of language...
...Lance helped make Carter governor...
...Having just been educated by a previous Commonweal article on the Church's method of dealing with divorces and divorced persons, I found Mr...
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...The real line that recent "consumer action" threatens to cross is the line between money-losing, serious programs and money-making entertainment...
...Alas, it is not quite so simple...
...Admittedly if you are in Peter's unholy trinity of Novak, Moynihan and Greeley, you don't deserve a fair break from him...
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...I see this as one of the most important problems within that Church today, for it affects the very heart of Catholic worship itselfmthe Mass...
...ANDREW M. GREELEY Reply I am pleased that Father Greeley so readily acknowledges, among his many sins, complicity in the knowledge industry...
...To the Editors: John Deedy in 'News and Views' [July 22] states that ~''westminster has been holding the line in the old Commonwealth against the ordination of women to the Anglican priesthood...
...While I am basic'ally a theological conservative, I was, and still am, impressed with the fine scholarship of these writers, and with their obviously genuine devotion to the Church's liturgy...
...The Mass has become in most parishes a barrage of words, with congregational response defined as mouthing responses, reading lessons, and singing hymns badly...
...Of course, I speak as an outsider of sorts, as an Episcopal priest...
...It is terribly ironic that the author of an article praising the value of a Christian community does not understand the pain of people who not only suffer the personal tragedy o f a wrecked marriage but also absolute rejection of their Church and (usually) their parish...
...I pray that the many glib and erroneous assumptions about liturgy which carried the day here in the United States in the Roman Church in the sixties will be re-examined...
...It has a president, a board of trustees, and a director, none of which I am or ever will be...
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...I am not sure what it is, but it would not be recognized for what it is supposed to be by the Church Fathers, from Justin to Augustine, from Anselm to Aquinas...
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...But, I work for the knowledge industry and, whatever my many sins, am not about to advocate killing the goose that laid the golden egg...
...But there is one "fact" about which he consistently utters falsehood...
...A parish, unlike such a community, has the responsibility of bringing the reluctant and the unwilling along, to listen *to them, minister to them and challenge them...
...Without taking away from the Community of the Living Spirit, it is by no means the only worthwhile thing happening in the Milwaukee area...
...The Spirituality of the Earth, Thomas Berry...
...Now the evidence is growing that in the flush of victory the Carter staff, and perhaps even the President himself, either used very bad judgment or put personal loyalty ahead of the national interest in shoehorning Lance into the Office of Management and Budget...
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...and that some basic liturgical sense and pride will once again be seen in the Mother Church of all Western Christendom...
...To imply that any Catholic who gets divorced does so "casually," to lump the Church's inhumane attitudes about broken marriages with other practices of the Church, then to further suggest that anyone who breaks one rule of the Church should at least be consistent and not feel guilty about breaking others--- there's nothing like beating a man when he's down...
...He would find it consoling...
...We must not allow the Archbishop's movement's blind opposition to the new rites and its general reactionary stance to blind the rest of the Church to the very real failings of the liturgical movement within the Roman Catholic Church...
...Then we will see the brave ABC executives stand firm for principle, won't we...
...He will not be the first authoritarian churchman to try that strategy...
...allowing large family overdrafts in the bank he controlled even two years after he had written to the regional administration of the Office of the Comptroller in 1973 that he had ordered the practice stopped...
...Essays of opinion are presented in each issue from a traditionalist viewpoint...
...The demon Hitler was speaking German with an Austrian accentmNero's with a Roman accent...
...True's dripping condescension galling...
...They'll carry the show along for years, losing millions but preserving us from the wasteland and standing up for "controversial material...
...I hope "Soap" loses its sponsors...
...No wonder all the melodrama...
...However, his assertion that local parishes (presumably referring to those of the Milwaukee area) were largely characterized by a lack of development was gratuitous and wide of the mark...
...Sic, thirteen times, Twelve words minimum...
...and they are compounding their initial mistake by their shifty efforts to keep him in the job...
...but rather in the shockingly uniiturgical way these rites are performed...
...To the Editors: It is surely beyond my competence to educate Monsignor Charles Owen Rice away from his epistemological rigidities...
...He was a self-made man, an energizer who talked the businessman's language, a tight-fisted balanced (federal) budget conservative...
...True leveled, into some of the very areas attributed to the Community of (Continued on page 639) CORRESPONDENCE: G 10 EDITORIAL: Q ! 1 A WELCOME INITIATIVE: Desmond Fisher 612 WASHINGTON REPORT: 1517 And A l l T h a t : Frank Getlein 613 At SIUD$~F AFFAIR: Peter Stein]els 615 LATIN AMERICA: PRESIDENT CARTER'S CHOICES: Gary MacEoin 616 LATIN AMERICA: FORGING ECONOMIC UNITY: ,jgostino Bono 618 THEOLOGY BEHIND THE WALL: Paul Misner 620 ARS GRATIA ARTIS?: Brian Wicker 622 THE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...But the solid front will be broken in 1979, when one Anglican church [the Church of Ireland] goes the way of its American cousin...
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...The Catholic can never set himself up as the super-Christian over and above the Church...
...Can we draw the line...
...casual about some practices of the Catholic Church, they still feel guilty about breaking others...
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...one t~me...
...apparently using the same collateral to get two loans from different banks at the ,same time...
...Are we throwing the baby out with the "Soap...
...This is not liturgy...
...He was religious...
...Then you ask: "wonder how he recognized Nero's voice...
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