Within the structure:

...The Council sketched out a Commonweal: 8 church in which members-whether lay tion they give up, leaving behind "a tended as participant, "may be that persons...

...has demolished republican democracy was an instrument whom had to be brought into existence the Dullesian-Nixonian myth of the of nationalism in the 19th and early 20th for the purpose of signing the treaty...

...in a rectly involved.the enthusiasm and spon- ing all things new...

...There are the specifics of the way taken as proof that it was they who had have been and continue to be the prethings actually happened, including, in- "lost" China...

...Do I know them...

...Another was a rural parish What has been happening...

...Koenigs and other social scientists, necessarily the same kind of participation movement and growth using the out- including professors in group behavioral from everyone, that the goals developed moded channels we have or bypassing sciences from Harvard, Boston College are, or should be, expressions of endurthem...

...The rallying cry was the call to some kind of dialogue, he notedNeither way works...

...under the light of the Holy Spirit, richer Christian life might grow...

...Louis...

...thoritarian, if colorful, diocese...

...least as grieviously...

...The structure resists Last year an effort was begun in the not an event but an ongoing thing, that it change...

...The burden of renewal They set out on a Year of Learning on housing "to show that the church is has been placed on the individual in- after a week-long retreat which brought listening and responding to real human novators...

...In the first place Boston is a They set up eight pilot projects reflectplace than members of an organic and place of often rancorous division as is ing the diversity of the archdiocese...

...that ond...

...any Soviet hopes of universal sub- idea that most of the new states and inand in favor of absolutist military dic- version and conquest have suffered at deed most of the old desire nothing more tators...

...In the other ing apathy" whose divisions kept it from Cardinal accepted eight programs experts or a planning committee develop using the resources of its wealth and suggested by the participants in these a blueprint for change and try to sell it to pluralism...

...A conand that efforts to innovate merely we can make a tremendous effort to find sortium of parish and community groups threaten peers or engender fear among out...

...first time...

...The large suburreinforced by the total diocese...

...be prayerful and given priority, that it is remains a vision...

...No one can say that it is not a with different assumptions and goals...

...pastoral units are encouraged to experi- of the effort, an archdiocese of "mount- At the end of the year of learning, the ment with new methods...

...the world in his floppy galoshes to create penditure on items that by definition Communism has been primarily an inwhat has turned out to a highly illusio- bring no return...

...the future of the world belonged to the Minh in Hanoi at about the same time, Among the other results of the anti- two of them to divvy up in the manner but the root answer is to be found in the Communist fever that we find ourselves more than once suggested by Henry Kishysterical, semi-paranoid American still burdened with are the CIA's Murder...

...They sought to is a corporate body and that changes people of their dioceses in a study and capture the investment and spontaneity within the church are interdependent and planning process...

...The key, of course, three-parish youth ministry, and in social taneity begin to run thin...

...umns, many of the difficulties in part of the "misguided" but by the That question contributed mightily to today's church result not so much rigidities of bureaucracy-by the simple domestic division and political bitterness from ill will as from the fact that there are fact that there is no way for the people of in this country, as well as, almost inci- so few avenues, channels and processes the church to come to know and respect dentally, clearing the State Department for communication...

...evangelization-the effort, as defined in dialogue which would be ongoing...

...Some...

...members of religious orders, polarized, fragmented diocese...

...whose efforts are often "un- bishops, priests, nuns, administrators needs...

...monolith tightly controlled by Moscow centuries and unifying monarchy was...

...members of the same church from enpriests, or bishops-knew and supported At the other extreme, people tend to tirely different spheres talked together as each other in the running of their church...

...The Pinnacle of this suc- has been out of fiscal control for years states totally united and utterly subsercession of dedicated and single-minded and gives no sign of getting back under vient to the Soviet Union...

...Third,it and customs...

...It must also mean that the United cession of Presidents...

...ever, these were so pre-planned, and the tion and spiritual grounding of the sec- Thus the reconciliation of differences is desired outcome so pre-determined...

...And, fourth, according to one suburbia-still another huge and urban...

...with many problems and strengths but forth if the energies and talents of the Secondly, it has been historically an au- ethnic in origin and divided by language whole people of God were to be released...

...recognize that all pastoral planning must finished its work, most of that vision Can these difficulties be overcome...

...Another was a parish in affluent Planned Change in St...

...strument of nationalism in spite of the nary system of treaties and alliances with Nation by Communist nation, begin- internationalist airs it gives itself, just as principalities and powers, all too many of ning with Yugoslavia...

...In some cases, how- of the first approach with the coordina- need to be in harmony with each other...

...But if we are to- borhood basis out of which a deeper and tion that it is unwilling to support it gether...

...In frustra- James Franklin, Globe writer who at- ABIGAIL McCARTHY 19 January 1979: 9...

...Secretaries of banded, continuing alliances with tin-pot States was profoundly wrong in basing State and the durable but unendurable military dictators in many parts of the its foreign policy on the existence of a chief of the secret political police, J. world, a defense establishment which worldwide conspiracy of Communist Edgar Hoover...

...resist the blueprints of the expert plan- friends, collaborators, even as equals for in parishes and dioceses," wrote James ners because they do not feel the plan is the first time in their lives...

...Not the least benefit," wrote hopeful one...

...at the heart of any pastoral planning efthe laity participating were more like To attempt this in Boston was certainly fort...

...Robert Koenigs of the Center for whole church in countries on other conti- diocese...

...nents...

...wherever it appeared...

...They were Franklin in the Boston Globe this past theirs and may not agree with its overall encouraged by the social scientists to year, "But 12 years after the Council objectives...

...two things...

...tend to cancel each other out...

...Some...

...The In the first instance, in which the effort the documents, to bring the Good News three ethnic parishes, for example, initially "generates enthusiasm, spon- of the gospel into all the strata of human- planned a linkage in common efforts in taneity and creativity" among those di- ity and to transform it from within "mak- "a peer ministry to the elderly...

...Yet their initial response vividly implied in the old description of for example, put together three parishes indicated the vitality which might burst politics there as "organized hatred...

...projects...

...Because was the commitment of Cardinal outreach to persons in need of personal the individual efforts do not seem to be Medeiros: "The question before us is and spiritual healing...

...Vari- archdiocese a community of faith truly based "on the assumption that the church ous bishops have tried to involve all the capable of its mission...

...in a poverty area planned to concentrate administrators...

...As should have anti-Communists was surely the rumpled control in any near future, and the infla- been obvious from Yugoslavia at the figure of John Foster Dulles, tramping tion that has come from such lavish ex- very beginning of the postwar period...

...The fault of "proper" or official way for the bishops its wholeness...

...stick figures being moved from place to a challenge...

...Evangelization remains the experts was that they had correctly in their recent meeting to communicate just a word in such a context...

...The font and origin economic damage on the United States FRANK GETLEIN of all Communist efforts was in the Kremlin and all Communist leaders everywhere worked solely for the inter- Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy ests of the Soviet Union...

...Do you creating mini-communities on a neighhierarchy does not really want innova- know them...

...than to live their own growth and strucIn the perceptions of the Dulles It must mean something that the worst ture with no special reference to the brothers, Communism was a single man- enemies of the Soviet Union are Com- wishes of the big powers...

...All of the programs reflected (or prescribe it for) everyone else...

...That there was no each other and thus be enabled to radiate of every single China expert...

...ongoing body...

...The Bicentennial hearings leading and Boston University, to begin a pro- ing values...

...Simultaneously and both before and after and out ultimately to unite the entire for that matter, in the 16th and 17th centhe great galoshes gallivanter, his brother world against the United States...

...of eminently capitalist states of West Gercidentally, the expressed desire of the course, also contributed to the rise of many and Japan...

...In one case individuals or individual priest observer, it was, at the beginning And so on...

...The China "loss...

...Above all, they were reto the Detroit meeting constituted one cess of change which would make that minded that such pastoral planning is such effort on a nationwide scale...

...Boston conceives of this as only coordinated and under-evaluated" and, and lay people into close contact for the a start...

...If turies...

...singer with his Metternichian obsesanti-Communism whipped up by a suc- Inc., unless it has indeed been dis- sions...

...According is so huge a diocese that it is equal to the with a single priest on the edge of the to Dr...

...When the example...

...The in- what are the best ways of evangelizing ban parish hoped to develop unity by novators may come to feel that the today...

...archdiocese of Boston, with the help of required broad participation but not And yet there have been efforts toward Dr...

...What neither the Soviet Union nor Allen, at the then still new CIA, was American anti-Communism as foreign the United States has been able to running a kind of Murder, Inc., against policy has fallen apart, and it assuredly stand-and hence to understand-is the freely elected leaders in the new nations has...

...The efficiency of the church as ticipated after Vatican II is a fading experts turned out to be right, this was "Sign" is endangered not by any en- dream...

...reported that Mao was stronger and better with the women who wanted dialogue It has been noted often in recent years organized than Chiang and would win concerned with ordination is only one that the golden era of participation anany conflict between them...

...At the very least it victorious Mao to take American tutor- Richard Nixon, Joseph McCarthy and means that both self-styled superpowers ship in nation-building, an expressed de- assorted lesser charlatans, crooks and are superpowerfully wrong in supposing sire exactly parallel to that of Ho Chi clowns of the anti-Communist circus...

...Hence, when Mao brought his struggle to a successful conclusion, had the vast country together and under Chinese WITHIN THE STRUCTURE command for the first time in decades, FROM 'ORGANIZED HATRED' TO DIALOGUE the question for American policy-makers was not how to relate to a newly reconsti- AS I have suggested in previous col- croaching democratic initiatives on the tuted China, but rather, Who lost China...

...If we can grasp ifestation of revolt against the divine munist states, China and Yugoslavia, that, we will be on the road to sanity in order of the world and had to be put down and that the nations inflicting the worst international relations...