NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS Mexican Miter Dance Bishop Sergio Mendez Arceo of Cuernavaca continues to be the hairshirt of the Mexican hierarchy. Most recently he touched off debate with a statement made...
...For years Catholic Church officials routinely bought property for developing dioceses, parishes, religious orders through a "straw"wa dummy purchaser...
...The News cites a former member of the movement as saying the Pillar company was formed to buy Mount St...
...Contretemps, allowing a personification, could have arranged the timing almost...
...Latinamerica Press, citing unnamed lay groups, attributes the attacks on Mendez Arceo in part to "fear" aroused in the hierarchy by a trend among Christians to sympathize with Marxism...
...Tr162 r Nee Tobtr The ruling military junta in Ethiopia has placed the Gospel according to St...
...A @~sh of Cr~ The hard-hat Bishop of Belfast, William Philbin has received a knock on the miter from headquarters...
...I've seen the system at work...
...The tables were turned recently in the case of Mount St...
...Dante's Divine Comedy, and Shakespeare's Hamlet...
...According to National Jesuit News, the four known members of Pillar Investment Corporation all have close ties with the Tridentine Church, also known as the Fatima Crusaders or Our Lady of Fatima Crusade...
...But any pain is relieved, no doubt, by the money that exchanged hands...
...Maiaprop could have written that...
...Protestant extremists seized on Philbin's intransigence as justification for intransigence of their own...
...Bishop Luis Munive of Tlaxcala thereupon branded Mendez Arceo's admiration f6r Castro a mark of "the weakness of his Christian faith" and added that Mendez Arceo was trying to "conciliate what cannot be reconciled...
...Michael's...
...The president of the Mexican Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Jose Saiazar, voiced concern over the remarks in which Mendez Arceo openly affirmed "the need to resort to Marxist thought to bring about the Kingdom of God in our day...
...Also, churches build parking lots, draw crowds, etc...
...To the Jesuits' embarrassment, the property has turned up in the hands of St...
...Michael's "because they knew that the Jesuits would not sell their property to the Crusaders...
...Idaho...
...Mark and the Old Testament Book of Tobit on its index of banned books...
...Most recently he touched off debate with a statement made during a visit to Cuba which related Christianity and Marxism, and proposed that Marxism may provide a method of analysis which offers a useful interpretation of the situation of exploited people...
...That's where use of the word virtue belonged...
...Michael's, a former Jesuit house of studies near Spokane, Washington...
...The Vatican sought out submissions from the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi, and the new Irish Primate, Archbishop Tomas O. Fiaich of Armagh, then let Philbin know that there was "insufficient reason" in Canon Law for him to refuse the confirmations...
...The Jesuits got $1.5 million for Mount St...
...There was a hullabaloo in Northern Ireland...
...The junta's reasoning: the contents are irreconcilable with the philosophy of Revolution...
...It was a means of controlling asking price...
...Adding spice to the sauce, Mendez Areeo termed Fidel Castro "fascinating," and expressed admiration for the work of the former Jesuit Porfirio Miranda, one of whose books is entitled Marx and the Bible...
...Virtues, yet...
...catch the head on the New York Times's lead editorial for March 30: "The Virtues of the Neutron Bomb...
...Talk about wordfowling with a blunderbuss...
...CENcos, which openly acknowledges that it is on the Christian left and in agreement with Mendez Arceo, claims the criticism is part of an effort to contain the "progressive" movement in the Mexican episeopacy--a movement that involves perhaps a dozen bishops---and to dismantle the "renewal" thrust that began with Conference II in Medellin...
...He believes the Puebla Conference will draw a "hard line" against Marxism and show "understanding" for "military dictatorships...
...CENCOS----Centro Nacional de Comunication ,~ocialm relates the establishment's attacks to next October's Conference III of Latin American Bishops, scheduled for Puebla, Mexico...
...Prudence, remember, is one of the four cardinal virtues...
...Mrs...
...Also banned: an anthology of biblical quotations published by the Coptic Church...
...Joseph Tridentine Latin Rite Church, an ultraconservative group headquartered in Coeur d'Alene...
...Saiazar said "the Gospel of the Lord is not tied to anY ideology or economic system such as Marxism, whose view of man, history and society is incompatible with the Christian faith...
...Obviously there is more to all this than a clash of personalities...
...It was the way of the secular corporation, but if it was deceptive, it was also pragmatic...
...So the Jesuits are embarrassed...
...The straw man helped the church to get onto the block...
...Through a "straw," the Pillar Investment Corporation...
...r Me** Chickens still come home to roost...
...Not virtuous was his subsequent waffling on the issue...
...The president of Pillar denies the allegation, but I can believe it...
...A while back Bishop Philbin refused confirmation to children attending state schools, on the grounds that greligious instruction outside Catholic schools was inadequate for proper reception of the sacrament...
...Five days' later the Times was reporting that President Carter had decided against producing the neutron bomb...
...Father Enrique Maza, a prominent Latin Jesuit, gives a similar interpretation...
...JOHN DEEDY 28 April 1978:258...
...Philbin altered his attitude...
...not every neighborhood wants 'era...
...And Mr...
...in some instances it was a means of getting property that otherwise might not be available for any number of reasons, including religious prejudice...
...He suggested that the Church dialogue with Marxists and even use their "discourse" as it used Aristotelianism in a former age...
...Carter's was an admirably prudent decision...
Vol. 105 • April 1978 • No. 9
