NEWS & VIEWS
EWS & VIEWS H~n R|ghts At its recent meeting in Puerto Rico, CELAM (Bishops' Conference of the Latin American Continent) announced creation of an information service on the...
...Robert G. Hoyt on the Vatican and women in the March 7 Christianity and Crisis: "Take the faddism out of Ms...
...He welcomed the recent political changes in India with the half-whimsical observation: "Canner must be pleased...
...JOHN DEEDY 15 April 1977:226...
...And it obviously doesn't include CBS commentator Eric Sevareid...
...mLast, Last Word Department...
...Bucldey, who went into a nursing home for three days to recover from the "shock," later said he was "saddened" that his removal was being interpreted as a clash between himself and Bishop Wheeler...
...Odds a ~ l mLast Word Department...
...Unsurprisingly," said The Post, "he seems to have found that, when you clobber a nation publicly on this k arousing its a way that amages other .~rests but rehuman rights...
...Hastings, who has been a lecturer in religious studies at Aberdeen University since last August, made headlines in 1973 by publishing allegations of a massacre of blacks by Portuguese soldiers in Mozambique...
...Father Ellis cited the "mounting protests" of bishops against human rights violations in South Korea, the Philippines, Poland, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, South Africa, Rhodesia and elsewhere, and declared that while he remained "fully aware of the inadequacy of episcopal leadership in certain matters both in this country and abroad," he was "at a loss to find any country, society or institution more consistent in this regard [for human rights] than the Catholic bishops...
...Father Aelred Tegels, OSB, editor of Worship magazine, on the pO~'bility that Rome's reaction to the Memphis reconciliation ceremonies may discourage wider use of general zbsolution: "I do deplore things that tend to make bishops more frightened than they are...
...The action was taken by Msgr...
...The diocese refused to explain why the prohibition was imposed...
...Is Mr...
...The Indians said it themselves...
...The Aberdeen diocese has a reverse poficy, allowing the cup only on particular occasions...
...Michael Buckley of Leeds, founder and director of the 10-year-old Wood Hall Ecumenical Center...
...The reasons for the restrictions on Hastings are as mysterious as Buckley's firing...
...The Washington Post is most dubious he can...
...Buckley, incidentally, will take the sabbatical and devote it to the peace movement...
...It is morally satisfying...
...First to go was Msgr...
...The announcement lent documentation to a point 'being made about the same time in Worcester, Mass., by Father John Tracy Ellis...
...But it's a smaller school...
...magazine, and a single issue still contains more relevant data and serious reflection on womanness than will be found in all the statements the Vatican may issue for the next 10 years...
...Caner aware of the problems he is creating for American foreign policy by his damn-the-torpedoes approach on this question...
...The Post expressed preference for the approach of Secretary of State Vance, who has suggested it would be better for the State Department to issue its reports on other countries' human fights on a private basis...
...It is inspiring," said The Post...
...ther school of thought on all of this, of course...
...Just two weeks before being fired, his Center was host to peace workers from all over Britain at an inaugural conference of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement...
...He didn't have to say anything about the resurrection of human rights in India...
...EWS & VIEWS H~n R|ghts At its recent meeting in Puerto Rico, CELAM (Bishops' Conference of the Latin American Continent) announced creation of an information service on the violation of human rights throughout Latin America...
...Within days of the Buckley story, news broke that Father Adrian Hastings, British expert on African affairs and customs, had been forbidden to celebrate public Mass and exercise a pastoral ministry in Scotland's Aberdeen diocese...
...Bishop Wheeler declined to see Buckley personally to tell him why he was being fired, a detail that added salt to the wounds of Buckley and his supporters...
...Jimmy Carter's been giving the bishops a run at their witness, and been provoking not only an international political storm, but a policy storm as well, one that's raised the substantive question whether a world political figure can function similarly to ~he bishops as _9 world prophet of human rights...
...But there were those who read the comment as "tactical...
...The Post credits Carter with sincerity, but not much more: "He seems really r believe in rights with a passiori, perhaps a religious passion, overflowing not only diplomatic convention but, in our judgment, diplomatic common sense as well...
...t"get~g Ctntf/letJ The ax has fallen on a couple of prominent British priests, and a sizable segment of English Catholicism is seething...
...Michael Fitzpatrick, vicar general, who is administering the diocese pending the appointment of a bishop...
...He was relieved as "warden" of t h e Center by Bishop Gordon Wheeler of Leeds, and offered an appointment as a parish priest or a year's sabbatical at diocesan expense...
...Speaking at the spring meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association, Father Ellis predicted that when the history of the current period is written, "there may be found no more articulate and forceful witness to the sanctity of hu...
...The guessing is that Buckley was sacked for getting too close to the Irish peace movement...
...But is it sensible...
...It is, to the President, politically useful...
...One piece of speculation has him being acted against in Aberdeen because of a long, personal statement which appeared in The Tablet of _9 In it, Hastings wrote that ,he had decided not to preside or concelebrate at Mass in the future when the cup was not offered to the laity, unless special circumstances justify its exclusion on particular occasions...
...The service will be directly attached to the president and secretary-general of CELAM...
...viz., Frank Getlein in the last issue of Commonweal...
...man r]ghts in the generatioh following World War II than bishops of the Roman Catholic Church...
Vol. 104 • April 1977 • No. 8
