NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS& VIEWS 9,000 Issues Young The Church Times published its 6,000th issue recently with a wry look at itself and the Church of England, whose activities it has recorded for the...
...NEWS& VIEWS 9,000 Issues Young The Church Times published its 6,000th issue recently with a wry look at itself and the Church of England, whose activities it has recorded for the past 115 years...
...Mary's College, a seminary of the Holy Ghost Fathers which sent hundreds of priests into the African missions over the past 70 years, has been shut and is up for sale for $400,000...
...They would like to move back in spirit if not in time to July, 1926, when, on hearing that a woman was to speak in Liverpool Cathedral, the Church Times remonstrated: "The service is informal, but the innovation is none the less regrettable...
...2—Nations with nuclearweapons capability: Formosa, Israel, South Africa, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Japan and West Germany...
...And though seminaries may not be closing at the moment, and though some religious groups report that they are attracting generous numbers of candidates, the vocations picture remains dark...
...Bishops's ommittee on Vocations, is quoted in the April Columbia as saying that the "crisis" in religious vocations will get worse before it gets better...
...What can we do about this...
...Afore Closing* The decline in parochialschool enrollments appears to be bottoming out, and parochial schools aren't closing the way they were a few years back...
...Membership includes a subscription to Sexually Transmitted Diseases...
...since 1970...
...The big crunch will come in seven or eight years," Bishop Povish said in an interview, "and it may be devastating...
...Q. Our parish priest is causing serious problems concerning our forthcoming wedding...
...Mary's...
...Indeed, there's indication that parochial schools are on the comeback and that padlocks may come off some schools that were shut tight for lack of students, support and faculty...
...Its blinkers, if it has any, are those worn by the Church of England at large," said The Times...
...This followed 20 months of consultations...
...But the picture isn't rosy across the spectrum of Catholic education, including on the college and seminary levels...
...Its end came from heavy maintenance costs and a drastic drop in enrolees...
...Ecclesiastically, the Strait of Dover is still as wide as it was in 1863, when George Josiah Palmer, founder of the paper and great-greatgrandfather of the present editor, first took up his pen and dipped it in acid...
...That's a chilling number of players...
...In fact, Bishop Kenneth . Povish of Lansing, chairman of the U.S...
...Church Times, 1926, sounds like Rome, 1978...
...There was a wry look as well from The Times of London, which generally liked what it saw, notably the fact that the Church Times was no longer "bitchy about Rome...
...james r. kelly...
...3—Nations capable of making a bomb within five years unaided, or less if aided: Argentine, Brazil, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and Yugoslavia...
...The JVwclear Club You can't tell the players without a scorecard, so the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists updates us on the lineup of Nuclear Club...
...However it added that it "did not believe a consensus has emerged thus far which would indicate a clear and unique approach to the roles of men and women in leadership and ministry within the prayer group setting...
...Immaculata College of Washington, a two-year Catholic women's institution staffed by the Sisters of Provdence, has announced that it will close in June due to financial problems...
...Father Clement D. Thibodeau's in The Church World (Portland, Me...
...It will become the 24th Catholic college to have closed in the U.S...
...issued a statement affirming that "the gospel of Jesus Christ is a gospel of salvation for both men and women...
...The American Venereal Disease Association is tubthumping for members at $22 a head...
...Sponsors of the project have both money and influence behind them, and are ready to act, it is reported, because they consider the current Church Times unsafe on certain points of doctrine, "notably the ordination of women...
...As follows: 1—Nations that have exploded an atomic bomb or device: U.S., USSR, England, France, China and India...
...The vocations problem is not unique to the U.S...
...Placed in the first category: Formosa, Israel and South Africa...
...Ironically, the anniversary issue of the Church Times appeared at a time when there is talk of launching a new weekly newspaper, one that would be distinctly Anglo-Catholic in the tradition of the old Church Times...
...There can be no place for unauthorized eccentricity in a body that claims to be an integral part of the Church Catholic...
...Priests in their later years are retiring and, because of the overwork, priests in their prime now are going to be slowing down...
...In England, St...
...E. F. Schumacher died early last year...
...Alas for the AVDA, its most likely prospects—creatures down in Kentucky blue-grass country—wear blinders...
...Most conspicuously, it has yet to discover the Christianity of the rest of Europe except for the outlying Anglican chaplaincies of the large continental cities...
...Father Know* Best A Catholic press questionbox column we never finished reading...
...It will, of course, be approved by the lay press and by Noncomformists, but it is a break with Catholic tradition, and if it were generally imitated there would certainly be increased difficulty in reunion, not only with Rome but with the Orthodox East...
...Readers familiar with these classical texts will not be struck by the content of the book but by the nourishment this social scientist receives from them and his admirable refusal to bracket scientific knowledge from human wisdom- That his recent work has been labeled by many social scientists as "arational" and "cultist" merely shows how far the classical notion of rationality has been impoverished...
...This is true not only for priests, but for Sisters and Brothers, too," he commented...
...Perhaps in the future the scope of the ministry of women may be widened, but for the moment it is definitely defined, and thus it must remain in all parts of the Catholic Church until the church, speaking with unchallengeable authority, itself decides on change...
...This group is divided into those with incentive to develop bombs, and those with no incentive to develop bombs...
...At the end there were only a few boys of high-school age attending St...
...Lewiston Readers) A. The first thing you could do is decide thai he is right...
...Odds and Ends — In what seemed a breakthrough of sorts, the National Service Committee of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal of the U.S...
...JOHN DEEDV not a new scientific map but a classical invitation to respect religious genius and philosophical insight...
Vol. 105 • April 1978 • No. 8
