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ling my nerves ever since I read it: "(divorced Catholics) are reluctant to remarry unless a priest officiates at the ceremony; casual about some practices of the Catholic Church, they still...
...Even when President John F. Kennedy visited his ancestral home in June 1963, the euphoria of his welcome was tinged with recognition of the vote-catching motive behind it...
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...Without taking away from the Community of the Living Spirit, it is by no means the only worthwhile thing happening in the Milwaukee area...
...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...
...He was a self-made man, an energizer who talked the businessman's language, a tight-fisted balanced (federal) budget conservative...
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...But the question immediately suggested itself: if it pleased--or, at least, did not antagonize--groups with such irreconcilable aims, did it say anything at all...
...It called on Americans not to support the para-military organizations...
...Carter had proved all things to nearly all men...
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...This is no Watergate...
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...I hope Mr...
...True learns something more of the meaning of the Living Spirit on his next visit to Wisconsin...
...And he was Carter's personal banker and friend...
...would maintain a policy of impartiality on the Northern Ireland issue: "there are no solutions that outsiders can impose...
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...What it did say, in brief, was that the U.S...
...And, finally, it promised that in the event of a peaceful settlement, the U.S...
...OOO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -rLL NEVER LIE TO 'YOU" It seemed like a good idea in the beginning...
...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...
...government would join with others in encouraging job-creating investment in Northern Ireland...
...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...
...Behind the Irish scenes, however, it was recognized that President Carter had his own reasons for his initiative...
...Having just been educated by a previous Commonweal article on the Church's method of dealing with divorces and divorced persons, I found Mr...
...Where does this leave the Northern Ireland problem...
...casual about some practices of the Catholic Church, they still feel guilty about breaking others...
...In last week's televised hearings before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Lance salvaged much of his pride and some of his reputation with his tough, injured-innocence attack on his careless Senator-detractors...
...It leaves it where it has always been--with the two communities in Northern Ireland and with the Irish and British governments...
...After all, any president, particularly a new one, needs people he can trust...
...apparently using the same collateral to get two loans from different banks at the ,same time...
...and as the object of others' bad mistakes, the first of which was to select a man with his real financial and borderline ethical problems in the first place...
...self-interest...
...A significant number of parishes have moved beyond the rather gloomy description Mr...
...And this is where President 30 September 1977:612...
...It called for a just solution which protected human rights and guaranteed freedom from discrimination and which the people in Northern Ireland, as well as the governments of Great Britain and Ireland could support...
...He reformed the state highway department...
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...Meantime, some Unionists in Belfast read the reference to the form of future government as support for a majority (i.e., Protestant/Unionist) administration, while other Unionists saw it as approving of moves towards the complete integration of Northern Ireland into the United Kingdom...
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...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...
...Since the statement had been cleared in draft with both British and Irish governments and was reportedly well "laundered" in the process, there was inevitably a blandness and vagueness about it...
...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...
...Lance helped make Carter governor...
...generosity usually coincides with U.S...
...So we Commonweal: 611 read now about lots of last-minute hustling around between November 22 and December 2, 1976 to tidy-up the embarrassments in Lance's record--the Comptroller's "enforcement agreement" prohibiting Lance overdrafts and FBI criticism of Lance's "sloppy handling" of his campaign expenses--so there would be no "skunks at the garden party" and Carter could have the man he wanted...
...but he recaptured little of the professional and ethical prestige the Director of OMB must have to function well...
...Exactly the same reaction was aroused in the camps of nearly all the other interested parties---the British government and Opposition and most of the moderate politicians in both communities in Northern Ireland...
...That in itself was a great achievement...
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...On the surface, it w~.s greeted rapturously though, perhaps, not as fulsomely as by Senator Edward Kennedy who called it "the most important and constructive initiative ever taken by an American President on the Irish issue...
...Lance would not leave office in disgrace but as a man of limited vision who can see only "in retrospect" (after it has become public) an impropriety he should have seen as improper when it occurred...
...The main reaction was one of relief that his statement could be interpreted to suit the government's policy...
...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...
...American offers of the kind are not exempt...
...True's dripping condescension galling...
...and they are compounding their initial mistake by their shifty efforts to keep him in the job...
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...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 FROM IRELAND A ELCO IE INITIATIVE It is a deeply-imbedded Irish trait to look very carefully in the mouth of gift horses of whatever provenance...
...And we have the wizards of the 1976 presidential campaign apparently incapable of interpreting Comptroller John Heimann's first report, not even realizing a second report was on the way, and misinforming the President that his stray sheep was safe in the fold...
...It isn't even a major scandal...
...And we have Jody Powell, who should really be fired, planting a false news story to punish a critical senator...
...It seemed obvious that Bert Lance would have to follow Jimmy Carter, Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell to Washington...
...The Irish take the view that U.S...
...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...
...I.t expressed support for a form of government which would command widespread acceptance throughout both parts of the community in Northern Ireland...
...But Bert Lance was vulnerable from the beginning...
...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...
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...And Dublin interpreted the reference to a form of government in Northern Ireland which both communities could support as an endorsement of "power-sharing," that is, the inclusion by right of representatives of the Catholic minority at Ministerial level in any new Northern Ireland administration...
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...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...
...He was religious...
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...President Carter's end-of-August statement on Northern Ireland elicited much the same response...
...recognition to what is known on this side of the Atlantic as "the Irish dimension...
...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...
...But Dublin was pleased because its role in finding a solution to the Northern Ireland problem was acknowledged, thus affording U.S...
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