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...Among the many salient observations Sister Spear makes, I believe two merit much further consideration, The first is that Catholic women seeking peer acceptance with men at any level in the Church must recognize the power base they have and work to expand it...
...What women most rely upon is their own truth (which is never consulted) and their hope in the Holy Spirit whose light is being temporarily obscured by the hierarchy...
...Mark Irwin 210 POETRY AND POWER: The L a t e r Robert Frost: Saul Maloff 215 THE BE.ARD-ING OF GABRIEL KOLKO: Michael Kammen 218 ROOKS: Jack Riemer, Michael True, John Deedy, Phillip Corwin 220 JAMES O'GARA: Editor JOHN DEEDY: Managing Editor RAYMOND A. SCHROTH: Associate Editor ANNE M. ROBERTSON, Editorial Assistant COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR.: Movies JOHN FANDEL: Poetry FRANK GETLEIN: Washington BRIAN WICKER...
...It seems some consider this industry as sacrosanct and any criticism as analogous to finding fault with motherhood, the flag, or apple pie...
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...The sentence with the phrase from which the book's title is taken, for instance, runs to 135 words, and employs a syntax as unnatural as Heidegger's...
...HUMAN-NESS is what is important to the priesthood...
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...I find this dual-sex ingredient another fad that only discredits the full human priesthood of the man or woman consecrated by the Church...
...Nor are they to be found in any of the important collections of Merton material...
...But forget those yarns and look again at Hogarth's art: the human figure, the animals in motion, the exotic, phantasmagoric jungle growth...
...The Novak-Cox dual-sex formula is a reversal of that unfortunate document from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: both make the same mistake...
...Even "hard-line Israeli Defense Minister and Rabin opponent Shimon Peres has predicted "meaningful negotiations" between Israel and its Arab neighbors this year, although he would prefer Kissinger-style step-by-step diplomacy to the overall Geneva conference advocated by the Arab nations and officially by his own government...
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...The problem with this book is its relentless pedantry, which produces an anguished prose that is not only difficult to read, but ironically, exemplifies the very alienation between thought and expression that Scott would ridicule...
...How is it possible for those of us who feasted for so many years on the Tarzan comic strip to have been blind to the fact that the art in fact overwhelmed the story--or should have...
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...Notably, the words civilization, civic and city all come from the same root, and are all intertwined in Scott's conception...
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...The second point is closely related to the above which speaks to the need Commonweal welcomes letters on subjects treated in its pages...
...Perhaps since women as priests is a new experience, some may need the experience of both male and female serving the Eucharist together, as advocated in recent articles by M. Novak and H. Cox [Feb...
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...It is part of the priest, but it is of no liturgical significance...
...He means the Human City, as well as the urban centers where people gather to build civilization...
...For a month or' two during the presidential campaign it seemed as if the same thing could be said about the United States as far as Middle Eastern policy was concerned...
...The result is flawed, not because it reflects some wild and unrepresentative swing to the left or the right, but because the careful crafting of recommendations becomes impossible...
...My conclusion from all this is obvious: the consultative process in the Church must he extended and strengthened...
...Or if further argument is needed: Bread and wine are part of Communion, but either bread or wine contains the whole of the sacrament...
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...Such women, many of them participants in the women's movement, still think and act out of a consciousness formed by witnessing the corrupt uses of power in varying degrees...
...Indeed, they loom light years ahead of much of what passes today as "serious" work...
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...and access to these notebooks, if they still exist, would enable me to give a complete account of a process of which at the moment I can only give a partial account...
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...Here, moreover, is a footnote to an ex.pression so common that it need not be quoted in the first place: The phrase is that of an eyewitness of Cranmer's martyrdom (as recorded in John Foxe's Book o] Martyrs), quoted by Anne Ridler in her Introduction to Charles Williams's The Image o~ the City, p. xlvii...
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...Men and women must seek opportunities to engage in cooperative experiences both with their own and the opposite sex...
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...Significant steps toward renewed negotiations in the Middle East are already being taken, and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's recent trip to the area was only one indication...
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...It is exactly by making sex so extraordinary in the priesthood that groups of Christians say that the nature of the priesthood is being changed, and that only an ecumenical council of bishops can make such a dogmatic, (Continued on page 222) NEWS & Fl~$: 104 CORRESPONDENCE: 195 EDITORIAL: 195 WASHINGTON REPORT: The l m m o r a l i s t s : Frank Getlein 106 TIME FOR STOCK-TAKING: John C. Cort 198 NEW CHANCE FOR THE BISHOPS: Peter Steinfe/s 200 TIIE UNITED STATES & SOUTHERN AFRICA: Peter Walshe 201 AN OPEN LETTER TO THE APOSTOLIC DELEGATE: 204 TRANSFORMATION IN CAMBODIA: David P. Chandler 207 PRESS: What ! Read: Thomas Powers 221 TIlE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
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...Women cannot accept the view that they are not "co-workers of God" but only "co-workers of men...
...To overcome this limited perspective, women must both recognize that only the intelligent, compassionate use of power can bring about the positive changes in the t3hurch they seek and work at modeling the exercise of such power in new ways...
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...has written a highly intelligent and difficult critical study of Eliot, Malraux and Auden, who, he says, "state a kind of case . . . that the vocation of literature is to celebrate not the various and sundry commissars who tyrannize us but the City which they betray...
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...To the Editors: The discussion occasioned by the "Declaration on the Question of the Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood" prompted me to review Sister Lois Spear's comments on that topic, "Some Practical Observations" [December 17, 1976...
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...Race is also part of the priest, but again, is of no liturgical significance, etc., etc...
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...Former Secretary of State Kissinger thinks the Carter administration has an unprecedented opportunity to achieve peace in the Middle East...
...Women must also accept change in their male peers...
...Now, with the campaign well behind us, Mr.' Carter is finding it necessary to put aside platform rhetoric and confront Middle Eastern reality squarely--and in .the process is finding out the hard way that President Carter must choose his words far more carefully than Candidate Carter had to...
...Scott uses the word City both in the literal and spiritual sense...
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...The fact is that this type of power generation poses massive risks to the environment as well as the people and their property...
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...Such language as is in the Declaration saps the energy of women, makes their identification with the Church an 1 April 1977- 222 embarrassmnet...
...4] about your recent editorial comment on nuclear power, it always amazesme that whenever there is the slightest criticism or question raised on the feasibility of the further development of this industry the reaction is immediate and angry...
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...Nothing comparable is being done today, except perhaps by Harold Foster of the Prince Valiant strip...
...Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel is calling for a renewed Geneva peace conference for the area, modeled on the European ,security conference in Helsinki in 1975...
...It would be ridiculous to have a concelebration representing every conceivable category at the altar . . . it just plays into the hands of those who think that women as priests are extraordinary...
...Such an attitude often seems somewhat debased to women accustomed to identification with those wielding even less power than they...
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...But these are the problems---or rather the opportunities --about which the bishops should be consulting theologians, social scientists and "political" thinkers of various sorts...
...Both however--given the Grace---can radiate the contemporary Spirit of Jesus, who returned at Pentecost to make ,his home in anyone who loves him...
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...But the priesthood is one: any human being duly consecrated, fully represents the Great High Priest...
...If Jesus' humanity is thus limited to maleness the humanness of all who are not male is put in question...
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...His chapter on Eliot concentrates on Eliot's later work, while the chapter on Malraux is exhaustingly inclusive...
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...They diminish the concept of Jesus as fully divine and fully human_9 They equate the humanness of Jesus and of the Risen Christ with maleness...
...It's true, women cannot mirror the Christ of two thousand years ago--but neither can men...
...for women to change and grow in their consciousness of the alternative uses of power...
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...Should the Church authorities pursue this reasoning to its logical conclusion, they would also have to deny women their right to the "State of Grace"--which, as I understand i t - - denotes the Real Presence of the Spirit of Christ in the human body/soul, male or female...
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...Such experiences can lead to the human flexibility we must achieve if we are to evolve new roles for ourselves in both Church and society...
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...To the Editors: According to the news reports, Rome has denied women the right to be ordained priests, on the grounds that they "cannot mirror Christ...
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...9 . . They resemble Christ in his essential humanness and therefore are eligible for the priesthood...
...He has had enough of the radical solitariness preached by so many modern writers, and he examines an alternative...
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...Archbishop Bernardin is right that the Declaration requires meditative study, not only in its references to ministry, priesthood, sacraments and Church-but also in its perception of Jesus and its illogical and unloving view of women...
...The earliest version, in Merton's handwriting, is con, tained in some small notebooks, prosent whereabouts unknown...
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...Long after the present decision-makers, the financial elite, the corporate pushers and bureaucratic promoters of nuclear power are gone, those of future generations will be stuck With problems without solutions . . . . GEORGE g. BELL Mertoa @rv Toronto, On.l~ario To the Editors: New Seeds o/Contemplation, one of Thomas Merton's major works, went through a number of versions before assuming final published form in 1962...
...DIGNITY, an organization of gay and concerned Cathollcs, working for a more informed theology and pastoral approach to sexuality...
...May I .therefore have the courtesy of your columns to ask if any of your readers knows their whereabouts...
...His chapter on Auden is the best, although he is not convincing in explaining Auden's withdrawal late in life from the theme of social responsibility that he pursued in his early poetry...
...Nonetheless, there is no doubt that participants quickly abandon much of the detail of their positions in an atmosphere like Detroit's...
...These reasons thus destroy the self-worth of women who still want to believe in Jesus, who believe that they are cepable of "imaging" God and Jesus...
...President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt, apparently with the approval Of the other Arab leaders, is urging the United States to take the initiative for peace in the Middle East...
...Check these three books and see for yourself...
...As in Jungle Tales o/ Tarzan, Hogarth adapted Burroughs and developed story lines of his own...
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...They should be preparing for a May meeting that does not abandon the process that was their own brave innovation...
...In a letter to his long-time correspondent, Sister Therese Lenffoehr, Merton mentioned that he was giving them .to the Honorable Clare Boothe Luce...
...Many of these dangers are over the long term and when discovered it will be too late to undo the monumental disaster which will result...
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