Correspondence
Correspondence Jesus & SALT Washington, D.C. To the Editors: Bishop Gumbleton [Cor- respondence, Jan. 18 ] finds that the arti- 'cles on SALT II [Dec. 7] contain no indication that...
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...From my vantage point now, being somewhat outside the structure and at a distance from the institution, the atmosphere is freer, the opportunities endless...
...AGATHA ROSS FIERRO r I I p Commonweal Is indexed m Reader's Grade to Periodical Literature, Cathohc Periodical Index...
...I expected that somehow the Catholic university should have left some kind,of noticeable mark upon me to distinguish me from others...
...I never suspected that I was living through a Catholic Revival...
...I'm still scratching...
...or with Friendship House--all with the same enthusiasm expressed by Brien...
...By all means, do revive the revival...
...If the latter is the case, then I think that he is under some obligation to offer an argument to that effect rather than a dismissive comment...
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...It's too bad that she omitted Canon Cardijn of Belgium, the founder of the Young Christian Workers, as one of the activists...
...That course of study colored my reading habits for the next ten years...
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...In a pluralistic society it is both a tactical mistake and an error of principle to attempt to base controversial public policies on purely religious grounds...
...What matters is that they are growing as persons, as families and as community people and spreading His Kingdom and its Gospel values...
...In innocence I believed that I had finally stumbled into something that was always there and would always be there and that the supply of intellectuals to lead and guide would be an endless flow coming out of Catholic culture...
...Tlie quest for perfection--sainthood-was a real goal...
...Others I knew at that time went directly from college to work with the Y.C.W...
...revolutionaries...
...To the Editors: It was nostalgic to read Dolores Elise Brien's article [Dec...
...I met people active with the Young Christian Workers and with Integrity magazine...
...We believed that we were the leaven and that conviction was not easily shaken...
...However, the ideas of the revival and deeds of the activists were stretching us...
...21 ] struck home...
...Woodstock Theological Center The Revival tent Rockaway Point, N.Y...
...To the Editors: Dolores E. Brien's "The Catholic Revival Revisited" [Dec...
...In 1947 1 graduated from a Catholic university still wondering what it meant to be a Catholic in the real world...
...It is not clear whether the bishop objects to non-theological discussions of .t~s issue or whether he finds the content of the articles incompatible with" faith in Jesus's word...
...It seems to me that what we were doing was within the structure and under the aegis of the'institution...
...Letters of not more than 250 or 300 words naturally have a better chance of being published...
...In retrospect, comparatively few clergy and religious, not alone lay people, were reading the revival books...
...We didn't know anything else at the time...
...I grew up with the Baltimore Catechism and learned in the 1940s to scratch the surface for better understanding...
...There was something exciting and special about being a Catholic and a lifetime of commitment was confirmed...
...Born again in the '40s...
...We were being prepared for other cultures, newer horizons and the universe which God had already touched...
...REV) EDWARD P. HOGAN An indelible mark Yuba City, Calif...
...I can relate similarly to what was arnbivalent for her...
...And the ecclesiastical structure was even less interested in those Catholic Action Commonweal welcomes letters on subjects treated in its pages...
...I'm where people are at and whether they are in the cllurch (~any are not), on the periphery or outside it doesn't really matter at the moment...
...Then it was back to the Catholic U. for several courses not required when I was an undergraduate...
...In looking about for answers I traveled some of the roads described by D. E. Brien...
...p. 108, Vadlilo, Siempre, Mexico...
...Illustrations: Cover, LNS, bell from Sojourners...
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...21 ]. I was one of the young seminarians who painted Monica House, who got into apostolic activities, who read many of the books referred to and who was deeply committed to the Catholic Action groups mentioned by her...
...I say this because many of the French names she quoted were influenced by him and translated into theological language what he, the practitioner, was doing...
...p. 11 I, LNS...
...7] contain no indication that Gospel has "any bearing on our response to the nuclear arms race...
...Correspondence Jesus & SALT Washington, D.C...
...Perhaps it was the strength built in those years that fortified some of us for the years following Vatican II...
...To the Editors: Bishop Gumbleton [Correspondence, Jan...
...I read Seven Storey Mountain and discovered Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker, the Baroness de Hueck and Friendship House and I heard Frank Sheed address Commonweal" 98 small groups on Sunday evenings at Columbia University...
...Even for those of us who had to find our way in the "mainstream" the dedication was no less enthusiastic...
...Church was a moving force in our lives and "Catholicism was (indeed) a total way of life...
...The institutional tent, it seems to me, is still a ghetto, still needs to be revisited...
...There is a revival taking place in thinking, in activity, but not in the institutional tent...
...If the former is the case, then I would urge that there is still some value in indicating some of tlfe moral reasons why even those who are not in the Christian tradition should be concerned about controlling the arms race...
...The mark left by those other times is indelible and, difficult as those ideas are to sustain, they are even more difficult to shed...
...18 ] finds that the arti'cles on SALT II [Dec...
...JOHN LANGAN, S.J...
Vol. 107 • February 1980 • No. 4
