Correspondence
Correspondence Reagan's Mike Laguna Hills, Cal. To the Editors: Terribly disappointed with the pro-Reagan article by Michael Novak [Oct. 24]. Hope others may voice their disgust at many of the...
...world from scratch...
...How can that be...
...All free-thinking people like to believe this...
...But for all our age and cultural differences, Father McNiff and I agree that we must do all we positively can within the limitations of the present discipline...
...Yet traditional theology always had serious objections to receiving Communion outside of Mass...
...In his essay, Father Schroth makes reference to a "confidence that individual man, once set free from authority and constraint, had within him the intellectual and moral resources to remake his Commonweal welcomes letters on subjects treated in its pages...
...Remember, the years just before Vatican II were among the darkest for those waiting to have the liturgy celebrated in the vernacular...
...24], did not doom the man he favored...
...He admires Reagan's good sense...
...DOUGLAS CORCORAN Commonweal: 674...
...JOSEPH LAMBERT Grudge against liberals Providence, R.I...
...The simple question was: who should preside at the Eucharist...
...I am certain that his piece must have touched a sympathetic chord among his contemporaries...
...To the Editors: Alas, for once Michael Novak's presidential endorsement, this time for Ronald Reagan [Oct...
...ERNEST W. RANLY Those were the daze Brighton, Mass...
...To the Editors: As a member of a later generation of students (Georgetown, Class of 71), I found Ray Schroth's personal essay on CathoKc college education to be both informative and stimulating [Sept...
...Letters of not more than 250 or 300 words naturally have a better chance of being published...
...Could the theology and ethics we studied at Georgetown actually answer the urgent, schizophrenic demands of that time period...
...But during my years at Georgetown that very confidence was lacking, except while under the spell of narcotizing drugs, music, or rhetoric...
...Novak's easy slur against educated Americans almost as much as I resent his enthusiasm for Ronald Reagan, who believes our survival in a nuclear age depends upon the building of more nuclear bombs, the purpose of which is annihilation, not survival...
...MRS...
...And once again, alas, for in recent years Mr...
...By the time graduation arrived, many of us felt that the best we could hope for was to select a town or city to live in and within our chosen field to change just one regulation, policy, or outlook with which we disagreed...
...Our own evidence is not decisive, but perhaps among less educated people there is more honesty to have simple Scripture-prayer services in the absence of the full Eucharistic liturgy...
...However, I would like to point out a major contrast in the experience of my classmates who underwent the rites of passage of the years-1967-1971...
...Could the Jesuit presence instill in us the quiet confidence to be on the "right" side of an issue...
...If that vision was not sufficient to erode one's confidence in remaking the world from scratch, add to it the onslaught of photographic images and rhetoric from Vietnam, Havana, the Black Panthers, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, et...
...One thing for certain: there has never been a test for the Catholic church like the second half of the twentieth century...
...Nor do I want to denigrate the personal character or the pastoral effectiveness of those priests who discreetly keep a family on the side...
...am very grateful to Father James F. McNiff for coming to the defense of Latin American diocesan clergy [Correspondence, Aug...
...Hope others may voice their disgust at many of the false statements...
...GARY ZEBRUN Presiding at Eucharist La Oroya, Peru To the Editors...
...In the clear light of day, most of us saw the enormity of the wrongs of our society, and, sadly, saw at the same time the makings of an Orwellian police state (Corporations-Pentagon-Nixon administration-CIA-FBI-Police) that would go to extremes to suppress dissent...
...REV...
...Authorized pastoral agents (be they ordained deacons or not) can conduct religious services with the distribution of Communion...
...Novak has harbored a strong grudge against liberals, a grudge which he recently extends against most "educated Americans...
...But while obedient to the law, we can creatively and respectfully imagine other options and keep alive the hope that laws can change...
...As a "neophyte" of over seven years work in Peru, I (and our Pastoral Team) am privileged to work closely with some outstanding diocesan priests...
...We must wait for the evidence to see if real Eucharistic communities can survive on such aborted services...
...His ill will appears in mean-spirited and simplistic judgments, as in his statement that he admires Ronald Reagan' 'simply as a man.'' Reagan, he says, " is not as sophisticated as some with graduate school training, but on his feet he thinks as quickly, as, and with greater common sense, clarity, and humor than, the two pietists with whom he is competing for our votes...
...We are actively recruiting and supporting vocations for the local dioceses...
...I resent Mr...
...When I arrived here one good man would take the consecrated species to his church in a coffee tin...
...We walked about in a daze of fragmentation...
Vol. 107 • December 1980 • No. 22
