Correspondence
Correspondence Change of address , . Wbeatonl 111. To the Editors: The article by David C. Morrison ["Armageddon in Triplicate," July 46] should help fuel public understanding of the illusion of...
...Clerical celibacy was not put forward as an issue of sex...
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...Correspondence (Continued from page 514) How does a people whose history is full of persecution now bring the same terror to others...
...The need for an immediate, mutual, and...
...If we truly wish ordained servants who are numerous enough and graced enough to do Christ's work among us, we must probably admit that by requiring them to be a male gender and ready to accept celibacy we are, at least nowadays, thwarting our own purposes and the church's needs...
...The readers would be able to find out about all the "good news...
...Frankly, I find that movement in our time to be a credit to the age, but it was not at all my point...
...Vanauken has also misconstrued my remarks on the ordination of women as somehow reminiscent of the contemporary insistence on equal opportunity for women...
...The PLO's history is one of inexcusable terrorism...
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...Vanauken the sense of my plea for a reconsideration of present qualifications for ordination...
...This is the greatest affront to humanity...
...Those who behave so tell the world they value their own lives more than the innocents whose lives they take...
...Because Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles can reach America in twenty to thirty minutes, how we would have any time to realistically evacuate is beyond me...
...BRAD AND RUTH RIORDAN...
...Women ought to be able to be ordained, not because they seek to be (a poor reason to ordain men or women) but because God has endowed them with the graces the church seeks in its officers...
...In Beirut hospitals one hears and sees crying, maimed children wondering what this is all about...
...Since neither the U.S...
...Granted that there be some advantages to the church in an exclusively celibate clergy, my question, is whether we pay too high a price for them...
...verifiable U.S.-Soviet nuclear weapons freeze (followed by major reductions) is even more urgent...
...Human Sciences Research, Inc., concludes that a newspaper should have little trouble operating with a skeleton staff of survivors when the war is over...
...JAMES TUNSTEAD BURTCHAELL, C.S.C...
...Ours is not too distempered an age to ponder these things...
...Illustrations: Cover, Religious News Service, "opening celebration, Second,Vatican Council...
...p. 519, Jusp, Switzerland...
...Wouldn't it be wise (though we so seldom are) to table them both until, say, 2082...
...nor the Soviets could survive and win a nuclear war, we should reduce the risk that such a conflict Would ever break out...
...To the Editors: The article by David C. Morrison ["Armageddon in Triplicate," July 46] should help fuel public understanding of the illusion of any civil defense measures in a full-scale nuclear war...
...When one takes the life of innocents under the banner of self-protection, one makes a statement...
...Postal Service plans to distribute postage-free Emergency Change of Address Cards following a nuclear attack...
...Then let me further pose two further questions: Is .the most sex-saturated age since late Imperial Rome (probably as the result of the swing of the pendulum from that other excess, Victorian prudishness) the ideal moment to re-evaluate the two-thousand-year tradition of clerical celibacy...
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...Even though it is estimated that up to ninety percent of all Americans would be killed, the U.S...
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...Nor was' celibacy considered under the larger and more appropriate aspect of Christian marriage...
...The world has the right to expect a more responsible Israel...
...And, where ministers are available, have we provided the people with men of lesser divine endowments simply because of our refusal to consider better men for the task...
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...While we do not condone the PLO's actions, we have the right to expect Israel will put a higher value on all human life...
...One could have discussed the sexual integrity and witness of the clergy...
...The displaced survivors would be able to get their bills and junk mail...
...This terror must be dealt with, but not at the expense of innocents...
...What has been lost by the Israeli government is the realization that tyranny's horror knows no one country's uniform...
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...I was unsuccessful in conveying to Mr...
...I should like to ask him and the thoughtful readers of this journal whether the McCarthy era in the '50s would have been the best time to re-evaluate the principle that a man is innocent until proved guilth...
...Before the PLO exodus, welfare agencies such as the Red Cross and World Vision tried for days to bring medicine and food into Israeli-secured areas only to be refused by the military authorities...
...By declining to consider for ordination married persons who abound in the graces we identify as God-given and needful in our public servants, are we depriving millions of their right to be convened at least weekly for the Breaking of the Bread...
...I did not...
...And is the period when our own Spirit of the Age is uttering soprano shrieks to the effect that women must be everything, including marine drill sergeants, precisely the moment to re-evaluate that other two-thousand-year tradition of the male priesthood-even if the 'pool' of males is only half our immense population...
...To the Editors: Father James Burtchaell, the Notre Dame theologian, reflects gracefully and thoughtfully in the June 18 Commonweal on "The Future of Our Fellowship...
...The Zeitgeist or Spirit of the Age of those periods, it may be thought, might well have prevented a just perspective...
...Jewish history should by now (and for many Jews it has) raise their level of moral conciousness to one which would riot allow today's action in Lebanon to happen...
...As the frenzy of the effort escalates, less and less reason is used to justify the carnage...
...My argument was attentive to quite another side of the issue: that of service to the church...
...p. 521, Renault, Sacramento Bee...
...One senses the govern-ment is so overcome with anger and frustration that it is now eliminating all potential threats at any expense...
...p. 534, Odets by Alfredo Valente...
...The scene was repeated daily...
...To the Editors: Re your editorial, "Israel in Lebanon," [July 16]: What we are witnessing in Lebanon today is an Israel out of control...
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...This is the crux of today's rapidly changing perception by Americans of Israel...
...And whether Nazi Germany of the '30s would have been quite the time and place to propose that no race is superior to another...
...My point is simple enough...
...p. 527, Ross, Rothco...
...DENNIS R. NELSON Spirit of the Age Lynchburg, Va...
...In the basement of a building in Sidon, Lebanon a direct hit leaves over 2S0 bodies of men, women, and children...
...Firestorms caused by a nuclear attack would reach ambient temperatures exceeding eight-hundred degrees centigrade and turn shelters, into crematoria...
...p. 529, Whittemore, Rothco...
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