Correspondence
Correspondence Malarkey & McSorley Toronto, Canada To the Editors: Without wishing to appear ungrateful to James Burtchaell [Contemporary Theology Issue, Jan. 30] for acknowledging the role I...
...Unfortunately, the favorable remarks were in the last half . . . Many hard decisions were courageously made without adequate support...
...Nothing dramatized this more than the return of the hostages...
...To the Editors: After reading J. Patrick Dobel's exellent article "A Last Lament for James Earl Carter" [Feb...
...this is no small matter for the editors of this country to ponder...
...HARRY McSORLEY Department of Religious Studies University of Toronto A last hurrah Unionville, Ct...
...MARY G. ALMORE Criminal Justice Programs The University of Texas at Arlington The Hostage example New York, N.Y...
...Perhaps, if "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" as they say, then, eloquence may be in the ear of the listener...
...27] with Rahner's The Foundations of Christian Faith, Hans Kling's The Church Maintained in Truth, and Edward Schillebeeckx's Christ: The Experience of Jesus as Lord...
...I have a mere Master's Degree in the field of history...
...3. A majority of prisoners have an addiction problem, drugs or alcohol, which has not been dealt with while incarcerated...
...A similiar statement appeared in the recent religious book round-up [Feb...
...to receive from me some documentation on the norms of legitimate dissent that I had outlined at Notre Dame...
...13], one question haunts me - why could not the press in this country have printed articles like this about Carter's very real accomplishments before it was too late...
...Irrespective of why someone is isolated, the results have an effect on the society to which the prisoner is returning...
...This would, I agree, make implausible their attendance at the annual theology seminar...
...The Crossroad program will continue to include books by Gregory Baum, J. Dominic Crossan, Ernesto Cardenal, Jacques Ellul, Elizabeth Fiorenza, Frederick Franck, Paulo Freire, Langdon Gilkey, Bernard Haring, Ray Hart, Morton Kelsey, Eugene Kennedy, Hans Kung, Martin E. Marty, John L. McKenzie, Enda McDonagh, John Macquarrie, Johnann B. Metz, Leo O'Donovan, Karl Rahner, John A.T...
...Some bishops may think they have, as Burtchaell puts it, "a plenitude of faith-understanding...
...I did not renew my subscription to your periodical several years ago, as I mentioned then, (Conintued on page 222) Correspondence (Continued from page 194) for this very reason...
...If enough of the reputable publications in the country had had sufficient foresight, and sufficient courage to buck the overwhelmingly unfavorable tide of the national press, to stand up for Carter, perhaps we might have been spared four years of Reagan, Stockman, and Haig...
...I make no claim to being any kind of an authority about politics or history...
...Dobel's article enumerates many accomplishments which should make Mr...
...4. Nearly half of the men in our adult and juvenile institutions have a reading level so low that they are virtually unemployable...
...Also, I do not agree with J. Patrick Dobel's opening sentence in "A Last Lament for James Earl Carter," [Feb...
...It certainly should not have been...
...Established last year by Werner Mark Linz, Justus George Lawler, and Richard Payne, The Crossroad Publishing Company continues the international, ecumenical publishing programs originated under the Herder & Herder imprint and then carried on at the Seabury Press...
...But I can give Jim personal assurance that others beside himself went away from the Notre Dame seminar with some theological insight...
...That address, dealing with the fallibility of such teaching and with the possibility of legitimate dissent from it, was given on July 11 - not early autumn, as Burtchaell has it - less than three weeks prior to Humanae Vitae...
...I could not understand nor could I abide your lack of support for this man...
...While I can take no credit, I am pleased that many professionals have substituted the terms "resocialization" or "reintegration...
...ANN KELLY BLANCHARD A press responsibility...
...Carter proud...
...Was it indeed so difficult to see this...
...While rightly rejecting his misunderstanding of Rahner as "malarkey," I fear that Burtchaell's own brief version of the what and the how of the good news of salvation in the third paragraph of his contribution might have earned from the author of the Letter to the Galatians an even stronger term of denunciation...
...I believe there are many who would say that the latter was the case...
...Greensboro, N.C...
...Was his cadence "halting" or was it measured in order that he might say precisely what he wished to say...
...6. Violence is part of the prison subculture in the U.S.A...
...Carter, I am certain, does not want to forget that he was ever president...
...The night the encyclical was published, a prominent archbishop, one of whose auxiliaries had been present at the seminar, sent a representative to Washington, D.C...
...To the Editors: Robert Joe Stout's essay, "Going Straight" [Jan...
...To the Editors: I deplore Commonweal's use of cartoons, and I especially disliked your cartoon showing Mr...
...20 review of A World of Grace: An Introduction to the Themes and Foundations of Karl Rahner, edited by Leo O'Donovan, and of A New Christology, by Karl Rahner and Wilhelm Thusing, these books were cited as being published by the Seabury Press...
...Stout's article "Going Straight" [Jan...
...Even some of the major newspapers that gave him half-hearted or last-minute support did so only after carefully building an anti-Carter image during most of his administration...
...Robinson, John Sanford, Roger Schutz, Edward Schillebeeckx, and David Tracy...
...2. Many prisoners have little or no, family support to which they return...
...Many people who listened with good-will and who respected Mr...
...He was not an orator, but he was never at a loss for the right word, his grammer and syntax were always correct...
...DAVID ROTHENBERG Executive Director The Fortune Society Crossroad mix-up New York To the Editors: In your Jan...
...To the Editors: I trust that readers understood that it was not the concept of providing meaningful programs for prisoners that I was criticizing in R.J...
...1 disagree, however, that they were badly articulated or that Mr...
...For the record, the main presentation I was to give at the Notre Dame Episcopal Seminar in 1968 originally bore the general title: "Theological Aspects of Structures in the Church.'' Informal conversation with a number of bishops during the first two days of the conference led me to shift the focus of my paper to a problem that had become increasingly urgent for them: the authority of magisterial pronouncements on moral issues, with special reference to the teaching on birth control...
...It must also be noted that American prisoners traditionally have disadvantages not confronted by the hostages: 1. A majority of prisoners in America were unemployed when arrested and have little vision of legitimate employment...
...It was to be expected from the likes of Time and Newsweek, but not so of Commonweal, nor for that matter of publications like the Atlantic and Harper's...
...Stout's basic contentions: one cannot usually learn to behave in a "normal" manner while existing in the basically abnormal environment that characterizes most of our penal institutions...
...I am pleased to add, however, that the paragraph in question can be given a thoroughly Rahnerian - and Christian - interpretation...
...We perpetuate crime by ignoring the humanity of the people we incarcerate...
...This misuse, expecially in the context of a "medical model" which is outmoded and inappropriate in prison settings, has largely contributed to the real or alleged failure of such programs...
...He is proud of his four years in office and justly so...
...No one deals with the acquired violence as prisoners are released back into the community...
...16], was on target...
...The publisher of all these titles, originally Seabury, is now The Crossroad Publishing Company (18 East 41st St., New York, N.Y...
...One of the truest and most perceptive assessments of Carter is Dobel's statement, "Carter bore witness to the fact that a religious man can participate in politics guided by a religiously informed conscience but not bound by exclusivist authority - a point misunderstood by most liberals . . ." Sadly, it was also misunderstood by Commonweal...
...Government officials made it clear that they understood that the separation from the mainstream would cause great difficulty for many of the remaining hostages...
...5. There is an inability to make decisions and personal choices after being incarcerated when all decisions and choices are made for the individual...
...16], but rather the misuse of the term "rehabilitation...
...30] for acknowledging the role I played in helping him reach one of his "most persisting theological" insights, I do wish to defend Karl Rahner's reputation for theological good sense by pointing out to readers not yet familiar with Rahner's thought that that great theologian, contrary to Burtchaell's suggestion, does not hold that "basically, a person cleaves to God by doing something religious," If Father Burtchaell thinks "anything according to Rahner is pretty murky" and if he tends "to forget [Rahner's] beginning by the time" he arrives, "spent, at his conclusion," he might try reading some of Rahner's numerous, more popular essays or one of his "short forms of the creed...
...Carter would agree with me that he spoke with unusual clarity and intelligence...
...By placing people into a non-decision-making environment, we allow them to nurture all the aspects which resulted in their incarceration...
...Carter was haltingly incoherent...
...I agree with what seems to be one of Mr...
...Carter about to shut himself in a suitcase...
...BLANCHE JANTZEN No medical model Arlington, Tex...
...The national press bears a major share of responsibility for the replacement of a man of Carter's abilities with Ronald Reagan...
...and many prisoners are affected even if they had no violence in their civilian past...
...But even I could see clearly the man's capabilities, his intelligent grasp of realities, and his courageous efforts to convince people of the imperative need to conserve energy and preserve our environment if we are to survive, to say nothing of his achievements in human rights and his handling of the Iranian crisis...
...FRANKLIN DENNIS The Crossroad Publishing Companyd Tracy...
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...Whether the use of more accurate terminology will actually translate into more realistic program efforts remains a question, of course, especially given the lay public's current mood...
...FRANKLIN DENNIS The Crossroad Publishing Company...
Vol. 108 • April 1981 • No. 7
