As the synod nears
McCarthy, Abigail
Experiences like Bauer's are few and far between. In most What the profession needs is a tough and enforceable code cases, news people deal with strangers whose feelings...
...There are, quite sim- extending from the formation of parishes by parish priests could be reassigned to ply, many more tasks for volunteers to to the management of church finances deacons or lay persons...
...of the subject...
...a rape victim who thought a television news need not be the courts...
...We have come a long way from the days in which the Catholic laity were expected only to "pray, pay, and WHAT IS the role of the laity in the planned by independent lay persons...
...has the right to do to another nation, not sion of the role of the laity in the church If I remember correctly, in my even a small and weak one, what it must confirm the laity's right to the role younger and more sentimental days I wouldn't want the other nation to do to it...
...By the end of the century, he the world...
...in themselves, an answer to the first part pp...
...and parents who were redress by inviting public criticism and participating in peer photographed upon discovering their children had suffocated review...
...And finally, at least are lectors and eucharistic ministers...
...Freedom of the press does not give the press $40,000...
...The survey also reices - these must then, in part, indicate thority, and a hierarchical model, which vealed an even larger gap between clergy what the role of the laity is, must they meant clerical supremacy in church af- and lay opinion on the role of the laity in not...
...happy to fill what gaps they could...
...doned (again, especially true in the field one national consultation has been Formal Catholic education, especially at of education...
...In most What the profession needs is a tough and enforceable code cases, news people deal with strangers whose feelings are of ethics...
...Then there are ecumenical relations, planning liturgies...
...Lay people, better in6 June 1986: 329 strutted and more leisured than ever be- thoritarian clergy and a deferential laity fore, and more aware of the mission of had become the normative model in the the church than they had ever been, were Awilik, United States...
...caused me to disapprove of the American renounced these juvenile prejudices...
...She was a television journalist for setting up an unofficial review board...
...No, not necessarily...
...The laity are, in fact, per- gregational model in which there was an cate between the majorities of both forming a variety of ministries and serv- emphasis on a democratic exercise of au- clergy and laity...
...and even if thriving schools - all without consulta- have, as somebody once reminded the underdog isn't always right, the toption with the laity affected...
...Viewers should be told how to take their complaints in a refrigerator...
...intentionally or recklessly causing severe emotional distress, Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis argued that the and defendants won three-fourths of them before they even got Constitution gives Americans "the right to be let alone - the to trial...
...In his ground-breaking, the majority of priests surveyed objected opened to the world...
...She of Future Church Leadership conducted reminds us that at the same time that by Catholic University sociologist Dean ministries began to be open to the laity, R. Hoge finds a majority of lay adults there was a sudden multiplication of the c lergy and laity alike, have long taken a urging the encouragement and preparaservices and ministries undertaken by highly centralized and authoritarian form tion of lay persons to take over many and offered by parishes...
...The board should have the power to publicly reprimand reporting...
...once too often...
...the elementary level, is largely in the Of several minds: Abigail, McCarthy hands of lay teachers...
...People are suing for "intentional infliction of emo- journalists who violate the code of ethics, suspend their memtional distress...
...Since 1978, there mate grievance, or their representatives, should be allowed to have been at least thirty-four cases accusing the media of respond during prime-time news programs...
...Journalists and punish if the media policed itself...
...Jay P. Dolan tells us that through- Any discussion of the role of the laity of the question posed by the forthcoming out that century, "Two concepts of local in the church must deal with these differsynod - what is the role of the laity in church government were at odds: a con- ences of opinion and the gap they indithe church...
...obey...
...review board made up of experienced reporters, photoGradually, an area of law is developing that offers legal graphers, and news editors, as well as leaders in the commuremedy to victims of thoughtless, tasteless,' or insensitive nity...
...Their "main might be called the social ministries - us are aware that, in the early nineteenth message," according to the report, is that long the very stuff of Protestant church century in this country, laymen partici- apart from marriages, baptisms, and the life - have become part of Catholic pated in church government in matters Mass, most of the work now being done church life as well...
...Since Vatican II there has been a deA third factor - and one we tend to parture from that normative model in the overlook - has been pointed out by Sis- I 'fill I thought and personal practices of the ter Joan Bland, SND, who founded and laity, if not in church structures themdirects the courses for adults known as ,11111, r selves...
...in a towel as she rushed from an apartment where she had been The only recourse against offensive journalistic behavior held hostage...
...on Freedom of the Press concluded that reporters "should JAN R. COSTELLO undoubtedly have more respect than many of them do now for (Jan R. Costello is currently working in public relations for the desire of private persons to be let alone...
...Not surprisingly, undertake in the church as the church has and personnel...
...The recent survey entitled Study EPS, Education for Parish Service...
...recently published The American Catho- to the possibility of confining themselves These developments might seem to be, lic Experience (Doubleday, $19.95, 504 to sacramental and liturgical duties...
...Among the plaintiffs: a woman who thought a bership in the organization, or expel repeat offenders from newspaper should not have published a picture of her clad only professional societies altogether...
...The next Perhaps nothing in American Catholic Three things, at least, have played bishops' synod, scheduled to history has been more astonishing than parts in this change...
...Many of what of church governance for granted...
...Perhaps they wouldn't be so ready to condemn public enlightenment and extended by public trust...
...These consultations them- evangelizing, organizing prayer and A second factor is that the decline in selves have a' variety of sponsors...
...after all, known to sever diocesan connections in the alley and gave him a bloody nose...
...boys will be boys...
...In 1947 the Commission carefully as they defend the right to know...
...freedom to disregard the rights of everyone else...
...But plaintiffs won four out of five of the cases that were most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by heard by juries, and damages ranged from $10,000 to civilized man...
...Ordinaries, us), Mr...
...before the professional review board, and those with a legitiThe cases, however, are, difficult to win...
...church and the world...
...Or so it seems...
...The media can open other channels of station should not have identified her...
...In the forth- fairs...
...Lay missioners, in another new SECOND THOUGHTS ON LIBYA form of ministry not mentioned above, THE 'MAD-DOG' DISEASE IS CATCHING also serve at the pleasure of religious orders or missionary bishops and priests...
...ministries in which so many have joyfully engaged and found fulfillment exist only at the whim of the local pastor or bishop...
...Few of tasks of parish governance...
...floundering...
...and must seek ways of altering the lines held two prejudices that would have Now that I'm older and wiser, I've of authority so as to accommodate it...
...Any discus- including Qaddafi's residence...
...2) In international with devoted lay groups and movements, i.e., the president ordered American affairs the golden rule applies: no nation, thereby effectively eliminating them or planes to bomb several targets in Libya, not even a very large and powerful one, leaving them...
...Lay persons had to be opened to lay persons or abanders and institutions...
...First study groups, visiting the sick, comfort- priestly and religious vocations, the among them of course, are those spon- ing the grieving, aiding the poor, in- numbers of priests and religious leaving sored by the Bishops' Committee on the structing children and adults, furthering their original calling altogether or seekLaity and its secretariat...
...New pastors have been known to wipe out existing parish councils, dis- I T IS Now nearly two months since my tercations the presumption of rightness miss eucharistic ministers, and close president (the only president we belongs with the underdog...
...Violators should be taken before a professional more easily ignored than those of a loved one would be...
...should uphold that trust by respecting the right to privacy as Noble attempts have been made...
...Lay persons are effective members, and no longer tokens, on institutional and diocesan boards...
...But that is a subject for coming consultations there will be a adds, "The Irish tradition of an au- another column...
...The most fundamentake place in Fall, 1987, will address the the extent to which lay persons have tal is that there has been growth in the question...
...ing new works, and the aging of those those sponsored by groups of clergy and all these are, in a truly living parish, the remaining, meant that some ministries laity loosely affiliated with religious or- tasks of parish lay workers...
...We Catholics in the United States, attack on Libya: (1) In international al- Underdogs, I've discovered, are often Commonweal: 330...
...It recommended Hands Across America...
...Plans for preliminary consulta- taken responsibility for the works of the Catholic consciousness that the church is tions are now in progress - somewhat church in the last twenty years...
...Ronald "Rambo" Reagan took dog ought to be sporting enough to overon taking over a diocese, have been Col...
...The verdicts indicate that jurors are on the side of the alleged The media have special privileges based on the need for media victims...
...This suggestion so many years until she brought up the issue of ethics in media outraged reporters, it never left the drawing board...
...The church in America has, in AS THE SYNOD NEARS I short, become dependent on the laity for THE LAITY'S RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE CHURCH its continuity and vitality as a community of believers...
...Muammar "Mad Dog" Qaddafi out look a multitude of annoyances...
...Enrolling constituted, as Vatican II put it, as the belatedly given the scope and complexity and welcoming new parishioners, People of God...
...ABIGAIL MCCARTHY temptation to concentrate on the theory of lay spirituality and mission and, perhaps, to ignore one hard fact: the lay Of several minds: David R. Carlin, Jr...
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