NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS JVetc Breeds The study of American families sponsored by General Mills, conducted by the firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc., and published under the title...
...Funding for development of the bomber was knocked out of a recent supplemental appropriations bill, but the deletion was done "without prejudice to the program," which means that there could be an official request for more funds this year...
...I take it that being Christian is the only "divineness" that we are concerned about here...
...A major obstacle—perhaps the major obstacle—to actual unity among Christians is then seen to be based on a false dichotomy or separation between divine and human right...
...Many non-Roman ecumenists say that that "superiority" belongs to the pope "by human, not divine, right...
...I do not say the "best" representative but historically the most prominent and influential one...
...Only 37 percent believe and want their children to believe that people are basically honest, and only 13 percent believe and would pass on the idea that people in authority know best...
...Does that limit the education that women receive if they are of the Morman faith...
...24 percent—almost one-quarter—reject the notion entirely...
...A force of 165 FB-lllHs would have a 20-year life cycle cost of $17 billion...
...That's a question to make the establishment really nervous...
...Blount pontificates on the subject: "No, I don't think there can be any question...
...They go on to insist that no non-Roman catholic can accept the Roman claim that the pope has unqualified jurisdiction by divine and not human right because he is the Christ-appointed successor to St...
...In short, that function is a distinct ministry— a distinct service—for those churches and within those churches...
...it's also a matter of how many e's in employee or employe, whether quotes go inside or outside periods— and, as Roy Blount Jr...
...it requires the presence of deity...
...Being Christian is not an addition to being human...
...No, indeed...
...If you are going to acknowledge the existence of the Pope at all, I think you have to capitalize him...
...In the West the main representative of this ministry has been the bishop of Rome...
...And there's no trucking around with a devil's advocate...
...Some 64 percent also say they will be less strict with their own children than their parents are with them, compared with 55 percent of the children of traditionalists...
...NEWS & VIEWS JVetc Breeds The study of American families sponsored by General Mills, conducted by the firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc., and published under the title Raising Children in a Changing Society, contains some consoling information for the establishment, at least as study results are interpreted by Family Weekly...
...notes in reviewing stylebooks in the current More, whether or not to upper-case the Pope...
...For the FB-lllH supporters this invitation may prove irresistible," writes Tammen, who is averse both to the idea and the plane...
...The IAberated Mormon A U.S...
...JOHN DEEDY 3 February 1978: 66 ly...
...But neither can being human mean ceasing to be Christian...
...The Protestant protest is that Christ does not share his headship of the one holy catholic and apostolic church with any other person...
...We've been married 60 years, and she's still going to college...
...There is only one, isn't there...
...Of the many statements that can be adduced to support those propositions, I give only one: Melanchthon's dictum that "for the sake of peace and general unity among Christians, a superiority could be conceded to the pope...
...They say it's 'the pope,' and 'the queen of England,' and 'the president of the United States.' I don't know, it doesn't look right to me...
...So writes Ronald L. Tammen, author of MIRV and the Arms Race, in the journal Arms Control Today...
...That text goes on to point out, in effect, that non-believers will not find Christianity credible so long as the churches remain divided...
...Newspaper style is not only directness, accuracy, flair, dash and presentation...
...Because the Petrine Function stands for unity, it requires intercommunication, mutual assistance, collaboration in the common dimension...
...Odds and Ends —Social notes from the gaffe-page of the Columbia Journalism Review...
...The sixteenth century Reformation was not a protest against all aspects of the papal expression of the Petrine Function but only against what were regarded as abuses of papal power...
...an ITALIAN SINNER Will be served at 5:30 p.m...
...With her children growing up, she'd get an hour off in midafternoon while they were asleep and being watched, and go to college for an hour...
...On the contrary, one is a Christian "in order to be truly —Maritain would say 'integrally'— human" (Kiing...
...Were this not so, Christianity would not be distinctive and catholic at the same time...
...Integral humanism is not opposed to deity...
...News & World Report interview with the head of the Mormon Church inevitably got around to women's role in the church and in secular life...
...The Reformers and their associates wanted and hoped for a revision of the papacy that would preserve the real unity of the universal church...
...It is a unifying ministry exercised in varying degrees by bishops, patriarchs, church presidents...
...A unifying Petrine Function without domination is indispensable...
...Next thing you know, says Blount, we'll see the lowercasing of "Perth...
...Since Christ is unique, a unique ministry is needed in order to give "moral and pastoral leadership" to all our fellow Christian churches "without dominating them," as the editorial wisely says...
...27 percent doubt there is life after death, but still want their children to believe it...
...What happens when these parental attitudes filter through to the New Breed of children...
...This invitation can be accepted thanks to what has been aptly called the Petrine Function...
...Sign of the Time...
...After our marriage, she continued her education, and so did her sisters...
...Thus, the study finds that today's children are for the most part traditional in their views: They like their mother because she is a good cook and homemaker...
...The new New York Times Manual of Style and Usage agrees with me 'if a specific individual is referred to,' but the new Washington Post Deskbook on Style, the new United Press International Stylibook, and the new Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual do not...
...He cites a study which labels the FB-lllH deficient in range, payload and electronic countermeasures and hopelessly expensive...
...Best of all, you don't even have to be dead...
...The title is fitting since it corresponds to Peter's unifying role in the apostolic church: the Petrine Function is to represent oneness (not uniformity) among such churches or assemblies...
...Is the pope Catholic?' looks funny...
...The children of New Breed parents, for instance, are more liberal in the acceptance of differences and readiness to play with children of other races, and more attuned to permissiveness...
...Christianity is unique without being exclusive...
...Peter...
...The interview continued: "Q...
...The most fascinating part of the study, however, are the dichotomies that exist in today's parents: 33 percent have doubts about the "duty before pleasure" principle, but still want their children to believe it...
...And Watergate and Vietnam are obviously making themselves felt among the New Breed of parents...
...The wizard of Oz.' Sign of a faithless time...
...Christ's prayer that "all may be one, as the Father is one with the Son" (Jn...
...at the Essex Center United Methodist Church" [Vermonter...
...Yet some subtle signs are detected that the New Breed of parents may be raising a New Breed of children...
...and this headline from the Gainesville Times, missionary RISKED DYSENTERY AND BIGAMY IN EIGHT DAY TRIP TO NIGERIAN VILLAGES...
...It's the actualization at last, obviously, of the theological principle of becoming a living saint...
...The Universal Life Church of California has entered the canonization business...
...Yes, and it's just about time for semester examinations...
...One candidate: the FB111H, dubbed by critics "Son of B-l...
...17:21) refers to empirical unity...
...That protest is true: Christ is unique without being exclusive...
...As for the Decatur-Spellman slogan, "My country right or wrong," 34 percent believe and want their children to 'believe, 41 percent have doubts but still want to pass the idea on to their children...
...JAMES F. ANDERSON...
...The study identifies a New Breed of parents, representing 43 percent of all fathers and mothers of children under 13 years of age, and notes that while this New Breed questions traditional values, it is still inclined to pass them on to their children...
...They do not believe parents should separate even if they are unhappy...
...their father because he spends time with them and is the "main provider...
...The distinction between "divine" and "human" right is doctrinaire...
...Worst of all, it is irrelevant in the context of concrete Christianity: "being Christian cannot mean ceasing to be human...
...Rome better look to its halos...
...we feel she ought to remain at home and teach children the things they should know," said Spencer W. Kimball, church president...
...My wife is the eldest of a large family of children...
...Beware a 'B-2' The B-l as such is dead, but the big-big bomber debate goes on, and another manned, penetrating, bomber, more questionable and more expensive than the B-l, could be in our future...
...And they think ifs all right for parents to spank their children...
...For $5 it will elevate a person to sainthood and throw in a handsome certificate to document his or her exalted status...
...If the B-l is not cost-effective," says Tammen, "there is no calculation that can make the FB-lllH cost-effective for the same mission...
...Or at least Pittsburgh...
Vol. 105 • February 1978 • No. 3