NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS Erin Go Bragh John England, pseudonym of a British army officer serving in Ulster, gives away a small British secret in an article m The Irish Press ot Dublin. "At this very...
...Kenneth F. Johnson of the Llniversity of Missouri...
...At this very moment," he wrote recently, "there are British regiments in training in England and in Western Germany: exercising in elaborate 'mock-ups' of Irish ghettoes, complete with custom-built homes, ptlbs and shops...
...At a London press conference, he placed himself ideologically "in the middle, between the Theology of the Establishment on the right and the Theology of Revolution on the left...
...He described the current political vacuum in the North as "unpardonable and disastrous," and went on to say that it was nonsense for Britain to look to Northern Ireland politicians for a Solution to the problems which Westminster itself has tacitly ignored for the past 50 years...
...The survey's criteria are freedom of information, free elections, freedom of political organization, independence of the judiciary, and the degree of civilian autonomy...
...However, he said, "I do not claim to be measuring 'democracy as such' but to be measuring and reflecting the changing scholarly image of political democracy in Latin America across the years...
...If the Church gives up everything which is not absolutely essential for it, if it applies itself only to being a servant of communion and sharing for humanity," the Letter concluded, "then it wilt participate in curing the wounds of the human family...
...News & Views" for 11/19/76 carried an item about British Government use of torture techniques on detainees in Northern Ireland...
...experts has its limitations...
...It urged correction of "the present crisis of confidence in man" through a program that would establish the human family as "a parable of sharing...
...Introduced by Nellie J. Gray, "March for Life" president, at a Washington speaking engagement, Sheen began: "Miss Gray, reverend Fathers . . . . " then turning to a nun in habit in the front row . . . "recognizable Sister...
...The bishop compared London's continuing use of the British army with the mindless militarism of the IRA...
...The grand objective of such a program, said the Letter, must be the eradication of that international injustice which makes primary "the satisfying of the needs of westernized man...
...The .full text of the document appears in the Lettre de Taizd for January, 1977...
...However, he adds, it "takes little account of the finer points of dealing with the bulk of a terrifled population who actually have to live in the ghettoes~for real...
...Still a master with the wit that cuts, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen...
...9 _9 when the quest of a high salary is the purpose of your work, you are very near exploiting others or being yourself exploited...
...Mile becomes kilometer, so the journey is about halved . . . . Ah, we're getting soft...
...Girls from the Women's Royal Army Corps are specially imported to hurl abuse at the soldiers, presumably to condition them for life in the raw, Creggan or Turf Lodge fashion...
...In this the Church's role is seen as paramount...
...A new edition of the Bible there converts Noah's Ark from 300 cubits to 133 meters, and Goliath from "six cubits and a span" to "nearly three meters...
...Then the part that rankles: "A local population culled from the ranks of the unit being tested is assumed to be totally hostile, and is instructed to behave accordingly...
...Address: 71 460 Taiz6, France...
...Not by his definition...
...On Feb...
...And discount the counsel in Matthew 5:41 about going two miles with him who would compel you to go one...
...The survey was inaugurated 30 years ago, and is conducted at five-year intervals...
...Australia leads the way...
...Even the feminine touch is not forgotten...
...8, Britain conceded the charges, and gave a solemn pledge to the European Court ~f Human Rights that it would cease and desist...
...Meanwhile, Bishop Cahal Daly of Ardagh and Clonmacnois has accused Britain of lacking the will to resolve the problems in Northern Ireland...
...Fact & Fan~y The Catholic Church through rose-colored glasses, or how the Catholic Almanac sees the on-going campaign for 'optional vis-hvis mandatory clerical celibacy . . . . From the 1973 Catholic A lmanac: "In recent years, considerable agitation has developed in favor of optional rather than mandatory celibacy for priests...
...According to a survey of U.S...
...Like the rest of the populace, however, Bishop Daly seemingly has no magic formula, no realistic plan for ending the violence in Northern Ireland...
...Johnson admitted that a survey of Latin America through the eyes of U.S...
...bottom, Haiti...
...At the bottom of the freedom list of 20 countries are ---in descending order m 4 March 1977:130 Cuba, Bolivia, Brazil, Nicaragua, Chile, Paraguay and, at rock...
...Specifically, the Letter asked: an end to consumerism ("the amassing of goods is the beginning of injustice...
...L a t i n Freedoms Which are the freest of Latin American nations...
...experts appearing in Latin American Research Review, the four freest are Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico...
...From the 1977 Catholic ATmanac: "Recent agitation for optional rather than mandatory celibacy for priests has diminished, without change in church law...
...a change in living standards ( " . . . give up everything that is not absolutely indispensable, beginning with expenditures") ; an equalization of wages J e~ LJ and working conditions C...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...The latest was done by Prof...
...Odds and Ends --Father Hans Kiing, a liberal...
...N o t even the Bible is to escape the metric system...
...There's no doubt, says England, that from a military standpoint the training is effective...
...J u s t i c e and t h e World After five weeks among the destitute of Calcutta, a delegation from Taiz6, the ecumenical monastic community in France, returned to Paris with a "Letter to the People of God" which was read-in Notre Dame Cathedral...
Vol. 104 • March 1977 • No. 5
