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CORRESPONDENCE Pel~tk~d Detroit, Mich. To the Editors: Three cheers for Carey McWiUiams's exposition [Dec. 3] of our continuing political crisis! Even Eugene McCarthy couldn't have said it...
...McWilliams didn't give him the cledit he rightly deserves...
...OOOOOOOOO CORREBPOIqDEMCE (Continued/rom page 3~) forgiveness...
...which is primarily concerned with the spiritual renewal of the recovering Catholic alcoholic...
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...Should any of your readers be interested in the Apostolate please direct them to write to Calix International, 7601 Wayzata Boulevard, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55426...
...The National Clergy Council on Alcoholism has welcomed Fr...
...It is the height of arrogance to presume to take the symbols of the priestly office and use them to serve as the instruments of some private grievance...
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...But your two writers are divided on their authorities...
...ARNOLD LUOER Spiritual Director, Calix International Sehe~sr-Crll~# Corpus Christi, Tex...
...is limited in the area of total spiritual recovery...
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...The NCCA would like to feel that its "Credo" statement rr alcoholism would most closely state the Catholic attitude toward same: "We believe that alcoholism is an addictive disease, manifesting itself as a threefold illness of body, mind and spirit...
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...affecting the lives of millions of American men and women . . . . We believe that alcoholism is a treatable disease...
...We especially believe that basic to any treatment modality is a continuing, daily program of spiritual recovery...
...To the Editors: The "aborted liturgy" in Nazareth, Ky...
...Letters of not more than 250 or 300 word~ naturally have a better chance o/ being published...
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...There is an old theological motif of the Two Ways...
...The sentence should have read: Weber grasped the simple but essential distinction that sets Delancey Street and its parent group Synanon apart from the usual Government-funded halfway house and drug-cure center, a difference summed up by John Maher's tribute to his teacher and Synanon's founder, Chuck Dederich: "Dederieh impressed me because he took no fnoney...
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...Yet Catholic universities are in trouble today in part because they have sometimes articulated the highest ideals, raised the highest expectations, but lost sight of crucial aspects of their mission, and left many graduates disillusioned and bitter...
...Both propose a messurea evaluation of learning situations f "The ancient languages are the scabbard which holds the mind's sword...
...Knowing that I say this in still another pitch from both Druska and Elshtain, my own view is that we can finally take the way to life only if it is a covenant promised to us by _9 companionship that is unfailingly true...
...2. To promote the spiritual development of alcoholics...
...A lot of the reasons for having a Catholic university still apply...
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...as the most universally successful approach to recovery of the alcoholic...
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...Father Fichter's sociological background takes into account the socio-economic culture which frequently is a conducive environment for the abusive use of alcohol...
...The women who attempted to preside at a Mass don't seem to appreciate the sacredness of the total Mass rite...
...Fichter's interest in the field of alcoholism these past few years...
...In a sense we are not interested in sobriety...
...May it not be that only in response to being invited to walk the way of life can we hope for _9 union of creativity and conscience, of vision and action...
...SUMMER LANGUAGE PROGRAM (BiMkud Gmk sad Hsbmw) June 6 - July 29 PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Pflnsetaa, New ~ 01IS40 Princeton Theological Seminary admits students of any race, color and r~tlor~l or ethnic origin and without regard to sex...
...and we should not be surprised if each generation's attempt to combine its religious belief and intellectual life fails as often as any other attempt to live as a Christian in a civilization filled with conflicting values...
...He might as well go tinkle in the snow...
...Can you guess who c a l f most often for responsible creativity and who for the reflecfive refinement of conscience and theory...
...May it not be that our debates over innovation and analysis suffer from a fundamental arrogance of our only partially emancipated reason...
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...Even those persons here without documents often have their taxes withheld and/or do not request refunds out of fear of filing returns . . . . For every evader there are probably two others who comply...
...All these facts are in such direct opposition to the stereotype that many people will simply refuse to believe them...
...One of the signs is unity...
...I pray that these people will recognize their error and ask for the Church's (Continued on paso 62) NEWS & VIEWS: 34 CORltlUPOND~(;,E: 35 EDITORIAL: 35 WASHINGTON REPORT: The Graees of Academe: Frank Getlein 3G RECONCILIATION IN MEMPHIS: Robert R. Holton 38 A NEW 'PERIL" Abigail McCarthy 40 TEE CASE FOR CATROLIC EDUCA,TION: Richard P. McBrien 41 'THE JOLY CROSS CASI~: Am Exel~snfle of Views 45 MEANWBILE, BACK IN DETROIT: George Pickering 49 VEILSE: Cyril Cusack 30 TEE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...It can witness to the fact that faith and reason complement rather than cancelout each other...
...She herself first learned the difference between the promise of America and its reality while she was a public school child pledging "liberty and justice for all" before the flag...
...The word Catix (Latin for cup) refers to our motto: "We exchanged the cup that stupities for the cup that sanctities...
...To the Editors: Reading John Druska and Jean Bethke Elshtaln in your October 8 issue is at once a tonic and a trouble...
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...One is a critical review, the other more a plea for educational vision...
...We believe that alcoholism is a tragic and costly disease...
...To the Editors: Thoroughly enjoyed Father Fichter's sociological portrayal of the topic of Temperance [Sept...
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...This group demanded a two-year probation period before admittance to prove one's intention and sincerity...
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...William J. Lanouette ILLUSTR.4TIONS: Front cover and page 41: Daily Blotter/LNS JAMES O'GARA: Editor JOHN DEEDY: Manag/e g gd/ter RAYMOND A. SCHROTH: AsNclete Editor ANNE M. ROI"ERTSON: Edlfee/4d A~tent COLIN L. WESTBRBECK, JR.: Movies JOHN FANDBL: PeatrF FRANK GETLEIN: Wasl/egtee BRIAN WICKER: Great Britain ALAIN WOODKOW: Paris HENRY TEN EORTENAAR: Rome JOHN COONEY: DuMb EDWARD S. SKILLIN: Pibflsker JOHN BRUBAKBK: Advertlalag Maeager Sfeff: UNDA F. KAYUER, PAMELA J. P41"s HARRIETTB RAt.SKY COMMONWEAL A rlvlew ef Pebllc Affairs, LDerafnre end t i e Arfs...
...To the Editors: In printing my letter [Nov...
...10] is an event symptomatic of a sick Church...
...It need not...
...The theoretical work of Kant or Freud is the kind of guide she wants...
...They have no right to exercise the priestly eucharistic ministry and the~, have no right to play games with a sacred ritual...
...members we maintain our sobriety by applying the twelve steps in the traditional manner...
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...rather than facile dichotomies and phony indictments...
...DONALD L. MUENCH "iPropka~Pkllo~ Cambridge, Mass...
...The Catholic university...
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...Each in a different way'is attracted by alternative ways of teaching and riving...
...suggests that the recovering member seek the aid of his religious persuasion for his spiritual rehabilitation and growth...
...It is too 'bad that Mr...
...5] commending Carlo Weber's Commonweal welcomes letters on subjects treated in its pages...
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...As the Spiritual Director of Calix International I was happy to see mention of our Apostolate...
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...Until then, there is no reconciliation between them and this one member of the Church...
...Both are concerned with~the vulgarization and exploitation of language which in turn exploits and vulgarizes its users...
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...Commonweal: 63 perceptive review of my book, John Maher of Delancey Street, Commonweal omitted a line, conveying almost the opposite of what I had intended...
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...Now of course your two essayists have placed their voices differently in their two pieces...
...But we should not be too discouraged...
...no respecter of persons...
...but all were limited to bare statistics...
...News & Views, Sept...
...At Calix meetings, which are always associated with the celebration of the Liturgy, we emphasize the spiritual dimensions of the steps in the light of our Catholic faith and rely for strength and inspiration for spiritual growth through the Sacramental life of the Church...
...To the Editors: In regard to Gene H. Bell's criticism of Bellow's works, [Nov...
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...There is a third way which combines freedora and discipline, he thinks, by introducing students to the self-discipline required by any really creative work...
...I see no good coming from this sort of "fun and games"--except, perhaps, we can now see that some presumably mature and responsible people can do some outrageous deeds...
...One good bellow is worth a thousand bells...
...In my opinion, their tampering with the Mass was wrong and outrageous...
...Elshtaln is eloquently dyspeptic at simplistic condemnations of American society and politically naive diagnoses of its contemporary malaise...
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...5], here again we have the critic viewing the work of the creator and finding it wanting...
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...Druska looks to "prophet-philosophers" like John Holt and Ned O'Gorman...
...Jom~ J. JACHMAN 'Ot~trajmmsl' Wm Pittsford, N.Y...
...J nigltt To Life Organize and plan to march in "The Greet Right to Lifo March" Saturday, January 22, |977, Wishington D.C,, National Right to Lifo Commlflee...
...Father Fichter did his homework very well...
...Our stated purposes are: I. To interest Catholics with an ale9 problem in the virtue of total abstinence...
...However, alcoholism is an illness, labeled as such twenty years ago by the American Medical Association, and although, thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous, we know how to treat and arrest it, there are still many unknown factors about its nature...
...It is a complex illness affecting the total person, physical, mental and spiritual...
...The idea is still a good one, as good as the two terms that make it up the quest for God and the struggle for human understanding...
...MARK F. MINDRUP+ O.F.M.CONV...
...Nor are there very many universities where, by general agreement, the thirst for knowledge, hunger for justice and dedication to the Gospels thrive side by side...
...Following four weeks, ~00...
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...This violence to the integrity of the Mass distorts the signs that are communicated by it...
...The Eucharist, depicted by the Host over the Chalice, is our symbol...
...A version of it is still alive today among Native Americans...
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...state, local and national governments are net gainers...
...The ills of our political system, specifically, domination by the two major parties, was exactly What McCarthy's independent presidential campaign was all about...
...24] in its various fights...
...It has been ever thus: the scholarcritic tries to force the genius-creator into some sort of neat little category of his own devising...
...We expect and insist that our members achieve and maintain such through active affiliation with A.A...
...So we are urged not to retreat from the duties of reason nor to settle for a bourgeois split between reason and feeling...
...But as a teacher of theology, I am reminded so much of my own students and colleagues...
...Yet other studies bear them out on the Ecuadoreans in the Washington area is strikingly similar in fmdinSS, for example...
...He looks aim to the model of a fellow teacher...
...If God does reveal himself in history and in the creative activity of his creatures, the more students and their teachers plunge into the mysteries of science, literature and the arts, i~ the context of faith, the closer they come to understanding both nature and the life of God himself...
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...To su~port One child we need $10 a month.' Gifts should be ~mt to Brother K.S...
...With its roots in Old Testament covenant theology, this tradition speaks of eternal life and eternal .death as the fundamental alternatives posed to human beings...
...A concept several writers have suggested is a "contradiction in terms," as if commitment to the Catholic religion and the free search for truth could not exist in the same institution...
...Even Eugene McCarthy couldn't have said it better...
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...At one time, until vigorous leadership brought them up to par, the religious character of these schools cloaked academic mediocrity...
...Little by little, the fact should ride down alarm if we can make them more widely known...
...Social criticism, open discussion, and moral theory would be indispensable elements in any productive approach to education...
...But surprised that he failed to mention the Irish "Pioneers"---a total abstinence league founded in Dublin in 1898 by a Jesuit priest, Fr...
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...This is the responsibility of religion, and A.A...
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...To the Editors: I truly enjoyed the Joseph Fichter article "Catholics and Temperance" [Sept...
...Deeghrs of Sarah, Dept...
...It is ironic to see our debate mirrored elsewhere, but troubling to wonder if it will go on forever...
...Elshtain, on the other hand, takes her stand on critical inquiry...
...Imitate IIILICAL INSTITUTE...
...no child educated in a public school need ipso/acto be blind to that respomibility...
...Calix is the Catholic Church's response...
...National Press hi dJng, W*eshlagton...
...Of course they do...
...Do they pay taxes...
...The hope of walking in the way of the Lord is not meant to be a distraction from the issues of everyday life but rather a revele.tion of their radical depth and their relevance to the full fruition of life...
...The cultural revolution of the 1960s, the change in intellectual climate ushered in by Vatican II which brought the values of the secular and religious worlds closer together, the defection from the faith due in part to a loss of confidence in the Church's Commonwea/: 35 all in the 1960-1970 decade, the years of greatest Hispanic influx...
...Over the years I have seen many research statistics identifying alcoholics according to religion, race, nationality, etc...
...Also, it would seem that they think there is something magiml about the words of consecration...
...but this usurpation undermines unity...
...She believes that social inequities can be assessed and changed...
...We are firmly committed to the program of A.A...
...Vermont 0S4Ol...
...In good measure, he urged his teaching colleagues to opt for "liberty with responsibility...
...Sic, seven times...
...National Clergy Council on Alcoholism Minneapolis, Minn...
...As A.A...
...Do Jonathan Kozol and Herbert Kohl figure in this company for him...
...How else could one explain "aborting" the service just before those words were to be uttered...
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...Also of particular interest was hh reference to the C~lix Society...
...The last decade has brought special problems...
...However, by its very nature A.A...
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...Drnska argues that we are not forced to choose between "salutary prescripfive methods" of teaching our language or else "volatile creative ones...
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