Correspondence
Correspondence Illicit but traditional Battle Creek, Mich. To the Editors: Re your editorial, "Disappearing Priests" [Aug. 13], I submit that change will not occur without illicit, but prophetic,...
...13], I submit that change will not occur without illicit, but prophetic, action...
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...Father Kelly reveals a preoccupation with what is fashionable and popular theologically when he asks for new criteria for canonizing saints today...
...Congressman...
...So what if Tyrrell did not favor Newman's canonization in his time...
...Would the results of a Gallup poll showing that a majority of the world's professed Christians viewed Newman as a saint be sufficient to satisfy the requirements for his canonization...
...The bishops ["The Bishops - the Bomb," Aug...
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...Two prejudices (at least two) are implicit in his article: 1) that John Henry Newman has a great deal in common with Hans Kung...
...Schil-lebeeckx's most repent writings on ministry, for example, are cogent and clear...
...Theologians have worked out the sacramental significance of such action...
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...Men and women - ordained or not - must begin forming communities and breaking bread in the name and memory of the Lord...
...Hayes, entitled Nationalism: A Religion...
...To the Editors: At twelve years of age I became an advocate of U.S...
...Newman himself would reject his own canonization, if not for motives of humility, then because he would not want to see distorted his own theological statement of the development of doctrine...
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...The answer to the question - at least by implication - was "yes" Commonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, Index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review Digest and Book Review Index...
...There may be some validity in Father Kelly's point that the canonizing of Newman would be an encouragement to "thousands of Kiings," and an inspiration for "other homosexually oriented people today," provided that presuppositions 1 and 2 are correct...
...25, 1975) I published a brief article entitled, "Should Cardinal Newman Be Canonized...
...and 2) that Newman was gay...
...His assertion that George Tyrrell, the English Modernist of the early twentieth century, did not favor the canonization of Newman is irrelevant, because Tyrrell's extreme idea of the development of doctrine put him on a shore opposite that of Newman's and outside of the visible church which Newman dearly loved...
...Father Kelly's suggestion, of course, that Newman's intellectual achievements as an educator should give him claim to the title of Doctor of the Church is a worthwhile idea...
...p. 553, Jim Mazzotta, Fort Myers News-Press...
...JOHN APPLESEED" Nations as blood dots...
...However, Father Kelly doesn't adequately support either of these two claims...
...No matter how resounding his acclaim by the vox populi, to be a canonized saint in the (Continued on page 574) Correspondence (Continued from page 546) Modernist mode would be too much of a price for Newman to pay...
...Church authorities will react as church authorities always have reacted-with dismay, denunciation, and then debate...
...1, 1924, to current issues available through University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Mi...
...These are the alternatives...
...No other has been or can be visualized...
...JOHN W. CURRAN, O.F.M...
...Over thirty-five years ago at the close of World War II, Nathaniel Peffer, then professor of international relations at Columbia University, summed up the matter: "The choice is between world government, either in a single state or closely bound federation, and an international organization limited to police power for preservation of peace between nations...
...555, 559, The Hornet, March 22,1861...
...At sixty-six i I have behind me serveral decades of participation in the politics of social justice and peace...
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...Buckminster Fuller put it a'little strongly but well: "Individual nations are blood clots in the world's circulatory system...
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...And church authorities will then have one more piece of church life to structure and institutionalize for the welfare of us all...
...On that subject I recommend to the bishops the work of a distinguished Catholic academician and historian, the late Carlton J.H...
...554, 562, Bas...
...However, albeit that Father Kelly would like to give quite a new meaning to heroism and sanctity, one suspects that deeper probing into the personality of the real Newman would reveal that coupled with this Oxford liberal's intellectual acumen are many more of the basic Christian virtues associated with the "heroes" of Christendom...
...But all of this is reminiscent of George Tyrrell, who was discredited by the magisterium for advancing the theory that Catholic truth is established by majority rule or by the popular trend...
...p. 549, Marvel Comics...
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...Until the American flag is removed from the sacristies of Catholic churches, and replaced perhaps by the flag of the United Nations, we are not likely to get far with arms reduction...
...Another change will have come to the Roman tradition in conformity to the "traditional'' process of change in the Roman tradition...
...Apostolote of Intellect Washington, D.C...
...BERT SISSON President, Interfaith Peace Guild Newman as Kong...
...13] might take note that the real religion of most American Catholics is a form of nationalism - Americanism - and their deepest anxiety as citizens is "national security...
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...The people would have spoken, the vox populi a la Gallup would have had its day...
...I'm more than ever convinced that to halt the arms race - both in conventional weapons that have been killing people in massive numbers and in nuclear weapons that might end the human story - the nation state system , must be modified...
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...10] should be re-named, "Canonizing the Newman that Father Kelly would make him out to be...
...After debate will come reluctant acceptance and then felicitous approval and promotion...
...p. 560, Taylor, Albuquerque Tribune...
...To the Editors: In America (Oct...
...To the Editors: Father Edward E. Kelly's article on the canonization of Newman [Sept...
...entrance into the League of Nations, influenced strongly by my father, who campaigned on the League issue for Democratic presidential candidate James M. Cox and who later, during the Roosevelt administration, was active in foreign affairs issues as a U.S...
Vol. 109 • October 1982 • No. 18
