Correspondence
Correspondence Purely biological? Altamont, N.Y. To the Editors: Robert Kambic [Oct. 27] asserts that "Natural family planning . .. is the only method of family planning that has no minor or...
...3. The Catholic and other traditional churches are the community of those who agree that the apostolic testimony contained in the gospels and other New Testament writings is a reliable account of a man, Jesus, who worked miracles, rose from the grave, claimed to be God, promised eternal life, and founded a community of followers to spread this good news to all nations and times...
...2. Have 300 years of the kind of postconventional autonomous thinking, advocated by Davis, solved—or created any hope of solving—the fundamental problems of man's existence...
...He states that celibacy "can easily become a way of life with very little moral challenge to it...
...too heavily compensated for by drink, overseas holidays, hours before the television set, and a generally rather egotistical pattern of off-duty behavior...
...No kidding...
...Unsolicited manuscripts are welcome but cannot be considered or returned unless accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope...
...27] asserts that "Natural family planning . .. is the only method of family planning that has no minor or major health side effects...
...That is, does he really mean what he is saying, or is he a satire of himself...
...Obviously, to judge by the letters published in response to his essays and musings, many people don't understand the joke either (Mark Taylor's letter in the September 13 issue of this year illustrates this point...
...Can we expect better results* from Charles Davis and his genuine and autonomous communicationers...
...Father Hastings comments that these faults arise unless celibacy is "linked with a really vigorous self-discipline all along the line...
...BILL McTAGGART No...
...Of course I agree that no one should unthinkingly conform and that those who cannot agree should also not conform...
...True heritage 11...
...On another point, I would like to be let in on the joke...
...STEWART ROULEAU Nonconform elsewhere Deurne, The Netherlands To the Editors: In "Genuine Communication" [Sept...
...Singles have been dealing with these problems for a lot more than 22 years, because we are systematically programmed out by society in general, and that includes too many church structures...
...Rediscovery of our heritage Might I suggest that for these twelve terms, the numbers assigned them above (or any set you desire) be employed, so that a great number of your literary achievements could be both published and read with less effort...
...Without taking sides in the optional celibacy hassle, as a lay celibate of over 50 years I get awfully weary of generalizations about the celibates' "non-normal" lives...
...1], Charles Davis called upon the pope and the church to change from a social group following fixed doctrines and rules to a "social embodiment of free persons in open communication,'' ' 'prepared to agree but not to conform.'' 1. Those who do not agree need not conform...
...For answer one need only refer to the prominent names mentioned by Michael Harrington (in the same number of Commonweal) of what he calls the richest and most intense period of philosophy—"some would say its final period": Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, (Feuerbach), Marx, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and others...
...Is "Frank Getlein" an actual person, or is this a pseudonym employed for writings unfit or illegal for a professional writer to sign his name to...
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...The leaders of the community spread this message though few of the wise and prudent of their time were willing to accept it, and their successors felt obliged to do the same even when intellectual fashions happened to oppose it...
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...They can join the large number of those who since three centuries left the churches to form an independent scientific community that by now may be larger than that of educated Christians...
...Iowa City, Iowa To the Editors: Since I do not have immediate access to Commonweal archives, I wonder if you could help me with a bit of research...
...Can any Christian worthy of the name settle for anything less than "vigorous self-discipline...
...There are certainly dozens of other terms which could be added to these...
...To the Editors: In regard to Father Hastings's article "I Am Free as a Priest to Marry" [Oct...
...D. W. ODELL Celibacy & singles Logansport, Ind...
...13], he speaks as a priest of 22 years...
...Commonweal:738...
...Is Frank Getlein writing directly...
...F. SIMONS (former Bishop of Indore) Commonweal is indexed in Readers Guide to Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, Index of American Periodical Verse, and Book Review Digest...
...Awareness of our heritage 12...
...Microfilm from Vol...
...In this Davis himself has given a laudable example...
...ha, ha...
...At any time during the past ten years has there been published an editorial, essay, book review or communique' which contained none of the following words and phrases: 1. Post-Vatican II confusion 2. Air of Vatican II expectation 3. Post-Vatican II hope 4. American Catholic community 5. Complex historical development 6. Reassess traditional values 7. Reevaluate traditional values 8. Reassess (or reevaluate) in context of 9. Genuine renewal 10...
...1, 1924, to ' current issues available through University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Mi...
...9! Ha...
...I should like to know whether his definition of "no minor or major health side effects'' is purely biological or includes the affective faculties, and, if the latter, whether he is able to cite the research literature on which he bases his claim...
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Vol. 105 • November 1978 • No. 23
