Correspondence
Correspondence Let homosexuals be? New York, N.Y. To the Editors: In his review of the documentary film Chicken Ranch [Sept. 23], Dan Dickinson argues fairly and persuasively to his conclusion...
...Myers convincingly shows what is happening in the lives of human beings, in contrast to the standard Marxist ethos which is interested only in disembodied humanity...
...Even though the barrier may seem insurmountable, the church in its long experience has always found some type of resolution in conflicts of this kind...
...Myers provides...
...They won't...
...I commend Commonweal for making a major contribution to furthering the knowledge of the present religious situation in China by publishing the articles on Communist China...
...To the Editors: Since I happen to know and admire Dr...
...At the same time, these Chinese want to be faithful to their Chinese culture...
...press hasn't matched the sort of enlightening view that Dr...
...Myers and by James Kenneson, "The Curiosity of Christianity," it seems that those who may be desirous of bringing the Gospel to the people of China must prepare in a very careful way...
...To the Editors: The article on religious faith and Communist China entitled, "The Catholic Church, An Eyewitness Report," by James T. Myers [Oct...
...Concordats are filled with certain mutual agreements that are less than perfect...
...23], Dan Dickinson argues fairly and persuasively to his conclusion that prostitution is no harmless indoor sport but, as the Victorians said, "a despicable vice that exploits and dehumanizes both its practitioners and participants...
...James T. Myers and his expertise on matters Chinese, I have to be on the qui vive that chauvinism doesn't show through in my comments re his timely article on the Catholic Church in China [Oct...
...As the readers know, there is a fundamental question concerning how the Holy See can get Chinese recognition of Roman Catholic bishops and priests who are faithful to the Holy Father...
...We ingenuous occidentals can justifiably continue musing on enigmatic Cathay, a puzzle still to Marxist scien-tism...
...The culture does not simply let homosexuals be...
...MOST REV...
...Foreign influence is despised...
...History tells us that governments are usually willing to compromise with those who do not threaten the basic political system...
...ABBOT) AIDAN CARR, O.C.S.O...
...Reason always has its way of threading through alien philosophies and theologies...
...a mixed bag, with plenty of ambiguity but with some bright spots of hope...
...There seem to be two factors that militate against evangelization...
...the case has to be argued...
...It is not enough any longer simply to brand homosexuals as decadent and evil, as Dickinson allows himself to do by inference...
...A Catholic - any Christian - cannot but feel that surely in the Person of Christ and in his message, the twain of East and West can meet - if given a little space to stretch...
...They don't...
...22] was very educational for the readers of your magazine...
...So far as I've seen, the U.S...
...The article gives an up-to-date insight into the present situation of Christianity in the People's Republic of China...
...The strategies must be authentic...
...Without further argument, he then draws an analogy between those who make light of whoring and those who contend not only for decriminalization of homosexual acts but for some cultural legitimation of homosexuality...
...Many employers, landlords, schools, churches, and editors still treat them as pariahs, or as figures of fun, most often without reflection on the nature of homosexuality or the consequences of homophobia...
...From the articles by Mr...
...It isn't enough simply to let homosexuals be...
...For many years I have been interested in how Christianity can permeate the vast numbers of Chinese who are citizens of the People's Republic...
...ROBERT G. HOYT Church's China card Charleston, S.C...
...ERNEST L. UNTERKOEFLER Bishop of the Diocese of Charleston The Chinese puzzle Moncks Corner, S.C...
...Commonweal, you've done valuable service to China-watchers by running Myers's on-the-spot reporting side-by-side with James Kenneson's companion-piece - an equally incisive reflection on the stand-off between the human itch to know truth and the Communist ruse that slogans about truth will do...
...It is too bad that this casual reference appears in the same issue with an editorial in which, for the first time to my knowledge, Commonweal acknowledges that perhaps homosexual love can sometimes be a source of grace...
...That is the reason for concordats...
...Also, those who have any connection with Taiwan are not given an open hearing...
...Kudos to you for making it available...
...The article highlights some of the grave hindrances to the evangelization of the Chinese people...
...Special pleading aside, Jim Myers has shed some badly needed light, via anecdotes and close-up observation, on the darkling scene of religion in China today...
...One is that the Chinese are educated to give allegiance only to those persons and institutions that are Chinese...
...His experience with flesh-and-blood individuals dramatizes the implications of Kenneson's analysis of how some Chinese wrestle, in practice, with what the government tells them they should think and be, in theory...
Vol. 110 • December 1983 • No. 22
