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CORRESPONDENCE Ordaining Women Sonoma, Calif. To the Editors: According to the news reports, Rome has denied women the right to be ordained priests, on the grounds that they "cannot...
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...Rigidity is .the enemy of peace, and sometimes Israeli leaders need firm U.S...
...Former Secretary of State Kissinger thinks the Carter administration has an unprecedented opportunity to achieve peace in the Middle East...
...It's unusual enough, for that matter, for the United States to have something that might reasonably be referred to as a foreign policy...
...In any ease, time is not on Israel's side, and the United States can best show its traditional friendship for and support of Israel by working for compromises that will lead to a lasting peace in the area...
...a process of evolution is going on inside the PLO, he thinks, that might lead to a "smaller solution" than the old die-hard PLO position...
...Race is also part of the priest, but again, is of no liturgical significance, etc., etc...
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...stance in the coming negotiations...
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...But the priesthood is one: any human being duly consecrated, fully represents the Great High Priest...
...Syria and Egypt have decided to form a "united political leadership" precisely to be ready for a new round of peace talks...
...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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...But if a settlement is ever to be reached in the Middle East, a beginning must be made, and there can be no peace until the Palestinian problem is solved, even by some sort of union with Jordan, perhaps...
...WASHINGTON REPORT THE IMMORALISTS It's unusual enough to have a debate, however desultory, going on United States foreign policy...
...At the end of his recent Middle Eastern trip, Secretary of State Vance reported that although he found a strong desire for peace among all concerned, the Arabs and the Israelis remain deeply divided on how to resolve the key issues that have blocked a settlement...
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...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...
...Interesting in this connection is the reaction of UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim who also recently returned from the Middle East...
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...Israelis and Arabs alike could receive no better gift...
...All in all, a determined effort to achieve some kind of settlement in that troubled area seems certain, indeed imperative if we are to avoid either another war or another oil embargo...
...Aside from this, what should be the U.S...
...The counterparts of such Israeli hard-liners, of course, are those Arabs who will not face the fact that if Israel is to give up territory, it must get something firm in the shape of peace in return...
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...It is part of the priest, but it is of no liturgical significance...
...Each candidate vied with the other in taking extravagant pro-Israel positions-in 'the process, of course, discouraging Arab friends of the United States and encouraging intransigent opposition to any kind of compromise on the part of right-wingers in Israel...
...It's true, women cannot mirror the Christ of two thousand years ago--but neither can men...
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...In the past eight years, the proportion of college-age youngsters attending college has dropped from 44 percent to 33 percent...
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...The PLO is a long way from bearing an olive branch, of course, but there are increasing signs of a factional rift inside the organization in which it would be helpful for the United States to encourage the moderates...
...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...
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...Sex is unimportant .in the priesthood...
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...should approve of every position expressed and every action taken by particular Israeli governments and statesmen, and those in the U.S...
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...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...
...Nonetheless, one hopeful fact is that negotiations this time will begin with a radically changed position for the Palestinian Liberation Organization...
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...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...
...The Lebanese debacle shows what can happen in the region, and not only in Lebanon...
...larger-scale unemployment has ~hreatened the college degree as an essential passport .to the middle class...
...Badly battered in Lebanon, the PLO is under severe pressure from its Arab allies to scale down its political objectives...
...This is not to say that negotiations will 'be easy...
...For Israel, survival is always at stake...
...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...
...For the first time PLO leader Yasir Ararat has announced that his movement now accepts the idea of Palestinian state on the West Bank and in Gaza, although without explicitly repudiating, at least so far, its earlier insistence on a secular Arab-Jewish state in all of Palestine, which implied .the disappearance of Israel...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 AGKIH, THE MID EKST Henry Kissinger is quoted by Edward R. F. Sheehan as saying that Israel has no foreign policy-----only domestic politics...
...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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...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...
...COMING MAURICE R. BERUBE writes on "The Revolt Against College": "The recession of the seventies has also affected college graduates and diminished the value of a degree...
...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...
...Thus there is cause ,to be grateful for the discussions, or at least expressions of dissenting opinion, taking place here over President Carter's reiterated support for human rights in all nations, with some stress so far on the condition of human rights in the Soviet Union, a condition which has not been I April 1977:196...
...who are pro-Israel should not take such a stance as being in any way antagonistic to Israel...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...One constant in United States policy is our insistence on the existence and security of Israel, and this is not negotiable...
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...In an effort to break the diplomatic impasse in the area, President Sadat proposed that the Palestinians should form "an official and declared link" with Jordan even before a Geneva couferenee is reconvened - - a move that might restrain the hard-liners in the PLO...
...to protect them from the pressures of hard-liners a t home--those who imagine, for instance, that they can refuse even to negotiate about the territorial gains of the 1967 war...
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...There are situations where doing nothing is the best course, but the Middle East .today is not one of them...
...At this point officials of the outgoing government in Israel are dubious about reports of growing PLO moderation, and this is certainly understandable...
...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...
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