NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS& VIEWS Changing Time*—I If you doubted that this was a new day for the "lesser" clergy, catch the decision of a Michigan arbitration review board in favor of one Fr. Joseph...
...4) the shift away from the "oracular" view of church authority...
...Hear, Heart The promotion of the quality of life requires sound and inspiring ethical views, Archbishop Denis E. Hurley of Durban, South Africa, said at the 14th quadrennial world congress in Bombay of the International Federation of Catholic MedicalAssociations...
...Bruetsch's head then rolled...
...Bishop Schoenherr, the opinion found, acted solely on the pastor's complaints without ever discussing them with Bruetsch...
...I * •* * And if all that isn't embarrassing enough, the Ann Arbor News rarf a picture of Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker with "his new bribe," Camille DiLorenzo Butler...
...JOHN DEEDY Subjective feeling reinforced by group-engendered emotions, Wilson argues, is a quick, cheap substitute for the steady growth in grace gained only by a lifelong cultivation of the understanding...
...News reports say the response to the petition has been "positive among the lower-ranking soldiers," but there's no figure yet on signers...
...Tolstoy's Annie Hall, no doubt...
...The decision was appealed, but was unanimously upheld by an appellate panel...
...The letter accuses the bishops of violating "existing norms of decency in human relations" in the way they have attacked Kung, and, as a consequence, of having made more difficult an objective discussion of the book itself...
...Kiing responded that he would take their criticisms into account in his next book, Does God Existi That hasn't satisfied the bishops...
...He encountered the opposition of his pastor, and was fired and evicted from an associate pastorate at St...
...So never mind about virtue being its own reward...
...Kenneth Untener, had denied Bruetsch basic due process, failing to give him notice or hearing, opportunity to confront his accuser, or present evidence on his side...
...A different army too...
...He took action and won his case...
...In their criticism of Kiing's book, the bishops singled out certain sections, including the treatment of Christ's divinity, as being "too short and inadequate...
...Among those named in the complaint were Detroit Auxiliary Bishop Walter J. Schoenherr and Cardinal John Dearden...
...This laboratory will be used for study of dangerous virtues and other agents of infectious disease...
...This, in turn, involves the Church's taking account, he added, of (1) new attitudes towards the world (the abandonment of dualism...
...Bruetsch, a priest of the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana, was serving in the Detroit area to gain teamministry experience...
...3) the decline in importance of the concept of natural law in decisions about good and evil...
...Changing Time*—II A different church...
...The new cults, he concludes, far from representing a religious revival, confirm the process of secularization, and demonstrate how inconsequential religion has become for modern society, for "they add nothing to any prospective reintegration of society, and contribute nothing toward the culture by which society might live...
...and (5) the stress on the corporate and social dimensions of today's ethics...
...The text: We, the undersigned American soldiers and civilian personnel stationed in the Federal Republic of Germany, are against the deployment of the neutron bomb...
...The date was December, 1974...
...After a series of delays and false starts,* the case went to binding arbitration—for the first time in the Catholic history of the state...
...They asked Kiing to publish "necessary additions and corrections...
...In particular the students object to the publication of correspondence between the bishops and Kung without the latter's consent, and to the fact that whereas the bishops have alleged inadequacies in Kiing's dogmatic formulations, they have said nothing about his deeper pastoral motives...
...He has given us a powerful conservative tract in the best sense of that word and a sensible intellectual antidote to the irrationality that inevitably weakens the heart of the Western religious tradition...
...It's almost enough to make you give up Mad magazine for newspapers...
...Bruetsch filed a grievance under the due-process procedures of the seven Michigan dioceses...
...RAYMOND A. SCHROTH...
...2) the change in emphasis from rules to ideals...
...Odds and End* Quotes from the Times: "The Federal Government has another laboratory now being prepared for comparably stringent safety standards...
...Bruetsch was awarded $14,800 in back wages and benefits, and church officials were directed to publicize the decision to parishioners...
...Joseph parish, Lake Orion...
...They find this especially objectionable since Kiing did not claim either "fullness or finality" for the ideas expressed in On Being a Christian, but rather asked readers to "reflect carefully" on his views...
...This is at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta...
...Rush, if you're thinking of applying for funds...
...News & Views, 1/20/78] More than 100 theology students at the University of Tubingen have signed an open letter to the bishops criticizing their treatment of Kung...
...A weapon that kills people while saving property may be good for property owners, but not for those of us who have only our lives to lose...
...Last month, allegedly after being informed that a civil suit to enforce the award was imminent, Cardinal Dearden authorized the payment and promised compliance with the arbitrationordered notice to parishioners by Feb...
...Bruetsch is now serving as Lafayette diocesan director of religious education, with offices in Kokomo...
...Armin Shimerman, a 5foot-six Off-Broadway actor, who is enamored of a 5foot-11-inch Off Off Broadway actress named Rita Litton, produced a well-thumbed copy of Kierkegaard's The Denial of Death to back up his claim that this was one of his favorite books even before Annie Hall...
...More on Kung Support is lining up behind Father Hans Kung in the contention with the German hierarchy over his book On Being a Christian...
...We are against a weapon that makes war more likely...
...With respect to dogmatic formulations, the students feel that Kiing has been unfairly depicted as one "suspected of heresy...
...Circulators of the petition are said to be encountering threats and harassment, and a number of signed petitions have been "stolen" from the soldiers' barracks...
...In Germany, some activeduty soldiers, their wives and dependents are currently circulating a petition against the neutron bomb...
...Joseph Bruetsch...
...The charges against Dearden were dropped, but a finding was handed down that Bishop Schoenherr and his assistant, Fr...
Vol. 105 • March 1978 • No. 6
