News & Views
NEWS & VIEWS French Backlash Is one effect of the Lefebvre controversy in France [News & Views, 9/10/76], the producing of an anti-liberal backlash? Henri Fesquet of Le Monde suggests...
...Both the community and the center are liturgically advanced, experimenting with services involving re-married divorced persons and non, canonical Communion prayers, among other things...
...Rock-bound New England stands firm, however...
...John's Abbey (Collegeville) and the 800 sisters at St...
...As the prelates proceeded into the Basilica, an honor guard of the Knights of Columbus drew to attention and unsheathed swords, not to beat the*m into ,ploughshares on the Basilica floor, but to form an arch of crossed swords under which the bishops marched, blissfully...
...Benedict's Convent (St...
...He sent regrets...
...Hence, they have asked Father Bernard Feillet to withdraw as leader of the community of St...
...He has placed an ad in a Rhodesian newspaper offering land in redneck country, U.S.A., where white folk "think as you do...
...With the St...
...He told the press that it was the Fillmore vote, not the black, labor or environmental vote, that put Carter over the top...
...Joseph), the largest Benedictine convent in the world...
...Bishop Walter Sullivan of Richmond extended the use of general confession and absolution in the past year to 15 parishes...
...JOHN DEEDY 4 February 1977:66...
...In turning down an invitation, Agnew cited President Fillmore's contribution to the preservation of the two-party system...
...Fesquet, an internationally renowned commentator on religious affairs, is more harsh...
...Cloud is the home of St...
...Henri Fesquet of Le Monde suggests as much...
...The best Carter could manage was thanks to the Millard Fillmore Society for its endorsement of him before last November's election...
...Ostensibly the bishops believe that "very liberal" or "ultra-liberal" activities by clergy can only spur on the reactionary supporters of Lefebvre...
...The other-are you ready?--Ireland...
...A New Year Mass for peace in Baltimore's Basilica of the Assumption drew 1,300 persons and 17 prelates from across the country, including a couple of cardinals and the Apostolic Delegate...
...Bernard de Montparnesse on Paris's Left Bank, and they have informed Father Pierre Talec of the Jean Bart Pastoral Sacramental Center that he is to be replaced as director...
...Benedict, Crosier Monastery, 37 parochial schools, five general hospitals---and probably the most sensitive Priests' Senate in captivity...
...Odds and F, nds --Communion-in-the-hand, an unclean thought yet for American bishops, has been extended by the Vatican and at the request of the pertinent bishops' conferences to a 42nd and 43rd country...
...Fillmore Society president Thomas Apostle was grateful...
...Among complaints in the report was that St...
...Father Talec has protested the bishops' repressions of himself and Father Feiilet, declaring "the veritable schism [in the French Church] is not between Archbishop Lefebvre and the episcopate but between the grassroots and the episcopate...
...Juneau, Alaska, and the Nashville diocese also record instances of its use...
...Cloud Bishop George H. Speltz "tolerates rather than encourages the potential among qualified laypersons and the remarkable number of men and women religious, particularly the 350 monks at St...
...But where do you go...
...Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston has revealed that the bishops of New England considered the matter and came to the conclusion that the conditions for general absolution were not present there...
...The ad, pitched towards agricultural families, read: "Farms, ranches, plantations for sale in Alabama and Mississippi...
...Good private schools, many cultural events, close to seashore and mountains...
...Reason was so that they could handle the large number of penitents during Lent or Advent...
...So you're white and you figure you better get out of Rhodesia while the getting's good...
...He accuses the bishops of seeking refuge in the texts of Vatican II "without taking into account the evolution that has taken place in 11 years...
...A Montgomery, Alabama, realtor has what he considers a great idea...
...Starting point for the Overview observations was a comment to the American bishops at the time of their meeting last spring in Chicago that they have had "less than a prophetic impact...
...Harmed i n Bosl~n It comes to pass that the use of general absolution in the Memphis diocese [Commonweal, 1/21/77] was not unique for the U.S., only its most dramatic application...
...By abolishing the debtors' prison, [Fillmore] assured the continuance of the Democ~:atic party," Agnew wrote...
...The Diocese of St...
...Similaxly, Bishop Leo Maher of San Diego last February allowed general absolution at a diocesan CCD congress involving 500 persons...
...John's Abbey, the College of St...
...Cloud resolution, add one Priests' Senate...
...It was only meant "to attract people over there...
...E n t e r p r i s e , Inc...
...The ad, which appeared in the Rhodesian Herald, "was not meant to be racial," Humphrey Belling, Jr., of Boiling & Wallace, Realtors, told the Washington Post...
...uch Ado Dept...
...Settle in an area where the white people think as you do and are of the same Anglo-Saxon background...
...The style wasn't as neat as Vice President Agnew's a few years back...
...Jimmy Carter couldn't make the party of the National Millard Fillmore Society, marking the 177th birthday of the nation's 13th President...
...Also, the bishops appear not to have welcomed a document published by the Jean Bart Center last fall just before the plenary assembly of the French Episcopate, challenging them to spread the Gospel in innovative and not always orthodox ways...
...One is Mexico...
...Piqued by a 500-word report in Overview, the Chicago newsletter, that described diocesan leadership as "timorous and hesitant" and itself as conservative, the Priests' Senate strained and brought forth a resolution of seven "whereas-es" crying slander and charging Overview, published by the Thomas More Association, with "a violation of reverence due to a successor of the Apostles...
...He interprets two recent actions by the French heirarchy as clues to a new caution on the part of the bishops lest there be more "grist for the mill of supporters of Archbishop Lefebvre...
Vol. 104 • February 1977 • No. 3
