NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS German Terrorism They're looking for scapegoats in Germany for the terrorist fervor that has spread there, and one of those being seized upon is Heinrich B611, author...
...13611 coucedes that some of his early statements may have been open to misinterpretation, but he maintains that he has never condoned violence and never supported the objectives of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang...
...Odds and Ends m Bishop Charles T. Gaskell of the Milwaukee Episcopal diocese has rejected the request of ]ames E. Groppi, ex-R.C, priesL for admission to the priesthood of the Episcopal Church...
...Straightening Us Out Just in case anyone thinks that things have changed too much in the Church, we give you this entry from the new one-volume Catholic Encyclopedia, edited by Robert C. Broderick (Thomas Nelson, Inc...
...That was in the Guardian for the week ending Oct...
...Oroppi says he'll look around for another Episcopal diocese that isn't playing ecumenical footsie with Rome...
...That Milwaukee understanding smacks of conspiracy in restraint o f fair trade...
...The Manchester Guardian Weekly noted that it was B611 who offered asylum to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who joined in the pro-Dubeek demonstrations for democratic socialism in Prague, who appealed to Ti~o on behalf of imprisoned intellectuals in Yugoslavia, who has spoken up for Soviet dissidents and signatories of Charter 77...
...The police rejected the charges...
...B611's "crime," in the words of the Guardian's correspondent, was in daring "to speak his mind and warn against hysteria in the hunt for alleged sympathizers with terrorism...
...JOHN DEEDY l l November 1977:706...
...Put that in your censer and smoke it...
...West German authorities said the deaths were suicides, but of course there are skeptics...
...Unfortunately, the Guardian went on, the prevailing popular sentiment runs in the other direction...
...He spoke of denunciation and a concerted smear campaign by the right-wing press against him and his family, and he accused the police of working hand in hand with that press...
...Catho~ lic Liberals are one group...
...Thus the perfect petition on the memorial tablet recently installed in Westminster Abbey honoring the martyrs of the Reformation...
...Were its fears substantiated two days later when three West German terrorists, including Andreas Baader, died in their cells in a maximumsecurity prison a few hours after a crack West German commando force liberated that hijacked Lufthansa plane in Somalia...
...The broad masses, it said, are of a mind with Franz-Josef Strauss, chairman of the Christian Social Union: "One should leave those who claim to fight for the freedom of che people to the people...
...But first maybe he should see an Antitrust lawyer...
...It is not a new campaign...
...B/~ll endured his criticism stoically, but after his son's house was raided by police, allegedly by mistake in the course of working on another case, he lashed back in a radio interview...
...There must, of course, be a distinction made concerning the transposing of the words...
...The magazine Quick went so far as to say that "the B~lls are worse than BaaderMeinhof...
...Although some of their views may be looked on as more 'free' than is consistent with sound Catholic teaching, the 'Liberal Catholic' is an individual rather than a party affiliate...
...Maybe they don't exist or need definition...
...Police and justice authorities would then no longer have to deal with them...
...B611 has always been a popular target for right-wingers, but he became even more so after the kidnapping of German industry chief HarmsMartin Schleyer in Cologne several weeks ago...
...So there, you Liberal Catholics, or is it Catholic Liberals...
...According to news stories, there is an understandingbetween the Milwaukee Episcopal and Roman Catholic dioceses that neither will accept the transfer of a priest from the other...
...NEWS & VIEWS German Terrorism They're looking for scapegoats in Germany for the terrorist fervor that has spread there, and one of those being seized upon is Heinrich B611, author and Nobel laureate...
...But, says the Guardian, all this seems forgotten, and B611 has become "the chief target of a witch hunt directed against alleged terrorist sympathizers...
...Script paralleled warnings too closely for doubts not to exist that the case may be other than as represented by authorities...
...Incidentally, there's no entry on Catholic Conservatives, or for that matter Conservative Catholics...
...The B r i t i s h Touch The British, whatever their other problems, still use the English language as if they invented it--~hich, come to think of it, they did, didn't they...
...Observers called the installation service one of the most ecumenically and historically significant to be held in Westminster Abbey in almost 400 years...
...Said the Guardian: It's a perfect prescription for Lynch-law rule...
...He's been branded as a "spiritual instigator of terrorism...
...Liberals, Catholic: . . . Liberalism as the political system opposed to absolutism is not condemned by the Church, but that aspect of it which seeks to obtain freedom or emancipation from moral restrictions is not to be accepted by Catholics and is condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX...
...They are not to be confused with 'Liberal Catholics.' The latter are not political in the broad sense of the word 'liberalism.' Rather they are individuals 'qualified ~ by the term 'liberal' and are variously engaged in promoting views that seek to inject Catholic thought into social and economic life in an effort to elevate the moral character of these activities...
...In the floor, midway between the tombs of Elizabeth I, Protestant, and her half-sister Mary, Roman Catholic, is now the inscription: "Near the tomb of Mary and Elizabeth/ Remember before God all those who/ Divided at the Reformation/ By different convictions/Laid down their lives for/Christ and conscience sake...
...A thoroughly good guy...
Vol. 104 • November 1977 • No. 23
