The Battle for the American Church:

...ing of investigation and exposure today MW 4 35-5.50 P M. than the enormous amount of foolishness History of Christian Thought of Chicago and outright chicanery in American Rev Richard Smith...

...In an early chapter terium...

...exile in Mexico...

...ing of the attention of American organization could possibly be a marvel These crippling defects are but one tip Catholics today are some later words of of good management which promotes the of an enormous iceberg...

...Moreover, his book furnishes 0 TTh 4 35-5:50 P M numerous examples of the incorrect We are an equal opportunity educator/employer...

...In the United States is beneficial and then is removed...

...The perpetrators of such misdeeds, Kelly maintains, have so intimiFALL SEMESTER BEGINS dated church authorities at all levels that SEPTEMBER 4,1979 the latter "have,packed away from en- Study forcing their own well-known and well- ENDS DECEMBER 19,1979 understood laws," thus rendering law itThemes and Methods self "moot by nonattention...

...fatal to his plans...

...They are the Newman, upon receiving formal notifvast majority of its officials by seniority more regrettable because at its best the cation, in Rome, of his selection as Carrather than by merit...

...Precisely For application or information contact: TTh 7:25-8-40 P M. because of the importance of the issues Christology Rev Earl Wens...

...at Loyola Synoptic Gospels: Matthew There can be few things more deservRev Brendan McGrath...

...O.S.B...

...The result is a Congregation for the Doctrine of the George A. Kelly work which falls distressingly short of its Faith has now conceded that truth can Doubleday, $14.95 self-set goal...

...There is worse...

...An institu- THEOLOGY in the Interpretation tion which does not correct disorder so of Biblical Thought flagrant, Kelly argues, is on the way to Rev...

...1875, in a list...

...MW 6.00-7 15 P M bring to his task theological precision, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 6525 North Sheridan Road Christian Spirituality and a sense of history...

...of mid-twentieth century Catholic intellectuals, most of them still alive...

...Such theol- "the insistence of dissenters that theolothat might have led to Kelly's elevation ogy as the book contains is ill-digested, gians are intrinsic to the ecclesial Magisto the episcopate...

...grammar, impossible style and tortured 6 July 1979: 409 management...

...On the next page he quotes York, aged 61, to whom Cardinal demnation...

...Kelly possesses Chicago, Illinois 60626 Rev John Powell, S.J neither...

...S.J Catholicism since the Council...

...which will convince none never be fully expressed once-for-all in but the converted...

...S J involved, however, the investigator must Sr Mary Peter McGinty, C.S.J...

...He deserves full credit, however, by which Providence rescues and the Western World...

...Not surprisingly, John jay Hughes widely assumed to vindicate those who "once-for-all" is a favorite term of KelM ONSIGNOR GEORGE A. KELLY is a (if but half of what Kelly writes about ly's, and appears frequently throughout priest of the Archdiocese of New them is true) deserve the severest con- the book...

...someSpellman-who on the evidence of his of a truly new type...

...what he actually gave tune in the academic world, and accepted which is formally heretical...

...So far is certain...

...which Kelly's book abounds) was in fre- the picture remains clouded, but by no Commonly the church has nothing quent need of such therapy...

...his later years entrusted im- There is first of all the question of no warrant in the mandate of Christ" for portant administrative responsibilities Kelly's theological stance...

...was "once a marvel of good dalous public misconduct by priests and nuns...

...Following the selec- or just plain wrong...

...tion of the Stavisky bill in the state legis- into a vice...

...times he falls to pieces of himself...

...Even more deserv- salvation of God...

...S. J. TTh 6:00-7:15 P M disintegration...

...program for getting American Catholi- democracy, manipulated his non- In Llerena, Castro had picked an ideal cism back on track-the more so as his Communist followers (including the au- spokesman to protect himself from the concluding chapter appears to retract thor) to seize dictatorial power for him- Red stigma, which then could have been many of the positions advanced through- self...

...dry and academic anti-Castro diatribe, paign...

...the guise of a selfless patriot devoted to innocently-denied allegations that CasIt is difficult to discover Kelly's own overthrowing dictatorship and restoring tro had Communist leanings...

...uncertain, and what is commonly a agement, which announced in 1960 that Characteristically Kelly takes no cogni- great surprise when it is witnessed, the Catholic church was "one of the two zance of positive developments in these is the particular mode in the event most efficient management enterprises in areas...

...and which will be ecclesial statements...

...The Catholic church, he claims "public confrontations with Pope and pline, when he himself sees no need to in his opening chapter "Who's in bishops, misuse of the Eucharist, scan- submit to the judgment of a church cen- Charge...

...But it seems to come down Mario Llerena- according to the story respects an inquisitive and subtle obto less dialogue and more toughness all he tells-was a liberal, anti-Communist server, Llerena had a strange faith in the round...

...means without hope...

...a prestigious faculty appointment from rance on a matter so fundamental hardly Early in the book it becomes clear that the Vincentians at St...

...facts (which, as far as I can tell, are only lature) there is much useful material on sor (who, if consulted, could have spared occasionally wrong, e.g., in his descrip- how some politicians turned necessity Kelly the derisive laughter of his foes...

...In this lengthy the book appears without ecclesiastical not from theology at all, but from the book he undertakes to show that what he approbation...

...On the other name at any level...

...with approval a statement that "there is Spellman in...

...But does Kelly not realize world of American business...

...which selects its book is squarely on target...

...As examples he lists: observe and enforce ecclesiastical disci- lems...

...The hierarchy, Kelly writes, professor when he was asked by Castro, virtues of democratic capitalism that was "frequently loses from too much whom he had known from leftist political naive at the time of the Cuban Revolution dialogue accompanied by too little circles in Havana, to work for the 26 of and that is positively quaint today...

...There can be few crisis presents a unique opportunity for times our enemy is turned into a people now alive in a better position than spiritual growth...

...Charmed and per- apparently sincerely believes the exploiCommonweal: 410...

...Kelly's ac- dinal in 1879...

...Castro then named Tridentine church, which required meas- Joe Nicholson Llerena head of the movement's foreign ures (the' anathema being the most obvi- supporters and sent him to New York to ous example) excluded by John XXIII in OPENED this book expecting a rather run the guerrillas' public relations camadvance-and -rightly-for Vatican II...

...sometimes he is despoiled Kelly to know that the primary purpose will assuredly be lost unless we get vig- of that special virulence of evil of this study was to reassure Cardinal orous, imaginative episcopal leadership which was so threatening...

...Repeatedly terms "religious crime" has become the inconsistency of complaining over he writes of contemporary developments widespread in American Catholicism 500 pages about the failure of others to in the church as "management probsince Vatican II...

...During numerous TV appearances The same lack of any historical sense is and was delighted to discover instead a and press conferences, and at meetings evident in Kelly's all too obvious nostal- fascinating-and occasionally spine- with U.S...

...The other was for pointing out that the church's present saves its elect inheritance...

...and which has on universities), and in women's reli- should fear for it any new trial no system of accountability worth the gious orders, are devastating for those now...

...Frederick Monarity...

...This ignores the totally Mario Lkrena forcing him and his family to flee into different situation confronting the Cornell University Press, $12.50, 324 pp...

...As evidence for his whose fatuousness and (in not a few hand, what is uncertain, and in audacious claim Kelly cites the notorious cases) lack of basic Christianity or even these great contests commonly is study of the American Institute of Man- common sense he ruthlessly exposes...

...SomeGeneral Motors...

...Kelly's concluding more to do than to go on in her own Kelly's deficient sense of history is not hopeful quotation from Newman in 1852 proper duties in confidence and limited to gaffes like including the is not notably consistent with most of the peace, to stand still, and to see the French Abbot Gueranger, who died in material preceding it...

...In a critical discussion of process theology (introduced abruptly and without explanation in a chapter on "The Good old days of Cardinal Spellman Birth Control Battle"), Kelly criticizes those who decline to take "statements of THE BATTLE FOR THE AMERICAN or ludicrous logic which university pro- the church simply as truth itself...

...Small wonder that Kelly's most important criterion is taken in Jamaica, Long Island...

...He is CHURCH fessors today expect from their students, apparently unaware that even the Roman but not from a colleague...

...official biography (and not merely of the There is already evidence of such sometimes he does just so much as unsupported anecdote and gossip in leadership in Rome...

...He decision-making, by decisions made too July Movement...

...Kelly's igno- was the Holy Spirit...

...He is unembancass- From Castroism to Communism ed to write that the doctrinal confusion following Vatican II "might not have TIE UNSUSPECTED REVOLUTION suaded, Llerena carried out various occurred had the Council Fathers in 1965 THE BIRTH AND RISE OF CASTROISM undercover assignments until Batista's exercised the foresight of their predeces- police identified him as a subversive, sors in 1565...

...John's University inspires confidence...

...One wonders how any late, or too little enforced...

...Articulate and in m au out the book...

...Congressmen and Castro supgia for the good old days of Cardinal tingling-inside account of how Fidel, in porters, Llerena vehemently-and Spellman...

...The position Kelly here adopts tion of Terence Cooke as Spellman's Kelly calls the Eucharist "a repetition of implies that Christ gave the church a successor, Kelly chose to seek his for- the sacrifice of the cross," a statement fixed constitution...

...but thatt this opportunity friend...

...leaders on the basis of cronyism (espe- counts of current developments in reli- Christianity has been too often in cially in the pre-conciliar days whose gious education (though not his chapter what seemed deadly peril that we passage Kelly laments...