NEWS & VIEWS

NEWS & VIEWS Rome Rethtnks Traditionalists who like to believe that the Church is a settled institution, with concrete answers for all problems and situations, must h.ave been jolted a...

...Are such marriages still to be considered "sacramental...
...What sort of "law" should the Church have...
...Arian Strangeland, whose voting record has been very negative as far as we are concerned...
...Americans United was formerly POAU...
...Should they all be scrapped...
...Incidentally, Strangeland won...
...The dioceses have refused, claiming that the federal agency has no right to interfere in the business of a religious institution...
...Most of the questions were posed by Jesuit Father Clarence Gallagher of the Gregorian faculty...
...They're intended to build the soul while the cornflakes build the body...
...Turn the Jesus jacket around and there's a blank space for taping in Bible verses to be mailed weekly to jacketeers...
...No matter...
...To wit: On Marriage: What is the connection between the contract of marriage and the sacrament of marriage...
...No kidding...
...In support o/ the dominant Catholic strategy: Amer.g icans United for Separation of Church and State ("There is no constitutional mandate for the NLRB to intrude into the hiring and personnel practices of educational institutions which are integral to a church's mission...
...bishops will discuss for the third time whether they should ask the Vatican for permission to allow reception of Communion in the hand...
...Catherine, St...
...8. Please encourage your people to vote that day...
...That's what it amounts to . . . . Or don't you remember last year's Vatican-New York Archdiocese brouhaha over those denim shorts...
...He wasn't "advocating" one candidate over the other "on the basis of religion" in the recent special Minnesota congressional election to fill the seat of U.S...
...The NLRB has ordered theseseveral dioceses to hold union-representation elections for lay teachers of their parochialschools...
...It dealt with "unsettled" questions on a variety of moral and theological issues...
...What methods of redress does a priest have who feels he is being unjustly treated by his bishop...
...Bergland is being held on Feb...
...NEWS & VIEWS Rome Rethtnks Traditionalists who like to believe that the Church is a settled institution, with concrete answers for all problems and situations, must h.ave been jolted a bit by the recent International Canon Law Congress at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University...
...On Church-State Relations: What about concordats between the Vatican and nation states...
...JOHN DEEDY I April 1977:194...
...What sort of structures should be available to individual defendants...
...So again, please emphasize strongly this coming Sunday the right of your people to vote...
...Just get ready for the neatest bit of religious gimmickry since Bishop Sheen was on television...
...Thank yOU...
...Are they outmoded...
...On Canon Law: What is the nature of Canon Law...
...What cannot be said publicly by us is that a small turnout will hurt Mike Sullivan, DFL candidate, who is very pro-Church, but will help Mr...
...So what was the postscript that ostensibly was so unfairly interpreted...
...Is there a contradiction between a Church of law and a Church of love...
...So how are interested parties lining up...
...But that may be less important than the fact that the questions were being asked--in Rome, yet...
...He was just exercising his right "to speak my views privately" when he appended that postscript to his letter to priests of the Diocese of Crookston just before the election that pitted Arian Strangeland, Independent-Republican, against Michael Sullivan, DemocraticFarmer Labor candidate...
...As one munches, one reads Bible verses, grapples with a Jesus quiz and meditates...
...Jesus jeans," no...
...Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland...
...New Game Department There's no tellin' the players anymore without a scorecard...
...Loser" Sullivan . . . and the bishop...
...Paul...
...Jesus jackets," si...
...B a l k e ' s Complaint The bishop said it was all a misunderstanding...
...In a number of dioceses of the U.S., Church officials are fighting the "interference" of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in parochial-school employment practices...
...Heavens, protested Bishop Victor H. Balke, the offended prelate, after news of the postscript hit the fan, his comment "didn't even mention the religious denomination of either candidate...
...On Canon Law: What is Church: How can individuals defend their rights against Church authority...
...According to Religious News Service, "full credit for the design and execution" (that can't be meant literally) goes to Robert C. Nelson, chairman of the art department at the College of St...
...What about the "sacramental" nature of the marriages of .baptized Catholics who have lost the faith and given up its practice...
...Read and decide for yourself the merits of Balke's complaint: "As you know, the primary election for a successor to Rep...
...At their meeting in May, the U.S...
...The answers weren't forthcoming from the Congress...
...Odds and Ends ~Hygenists, have hope...
...The practice is already common in 40 countries...
...The blank space is captioned "Daily Bread...
...In criticism of the dominant Catholic strategy: the executive board of the National Assembly of Women Religious ("If Church officials in dioceses involved in this type of litigation with the NLRB had applied their [the Bishops'] guideline that 'workers have the fight to form unions,' the present situation in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Fort WayneSouth Bend, Gary and Chicago might not have occurred...
...Given the new emphases on the importance of personal values and conjugal love, on freedom of conscience and religious liberty, how should the Church re_9 r its laws on marriage to meet these sensitivities in the pluralistic Society...
...Personally, I'd rather meditate on Jesus, jeans...
...Yes, "Jesus jackets:" They're f0ur-color, silkscreened items designed to slip over large-sized cereal boxes...

Vol. 104 • April 1977 • No. 7


 
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