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I would ask Mrs. McCarthy to take prayer. Speaking in this way also re- Correspondence another look at the lay...
...to come to grips with the problem of than with women's rights...
...Bishop Vega claims he had no Priesthood American scientists with international intention of helping ram through the DESIRE PRIESTHOOD...
...United States...
...church leaders because we have a voca- fulfill their God-given vocation, which tion which includes family respon- the ministers, as Christians, also equally sibilities and, on the other hand, under share...
...Copyright ©1986 Comnot taken seriously by some ordained to enable all the members of the church to monweal Foundation...
...church's service of evangelization and Commonweal: 578 suggest, in the European movement's thought to the possibility that it could tary against the indigenous and peasant shameless depiction of Solidarity as ir- become a pot-luck to which the guests peoples...
...Commonweal: 606...
...In the present generation...
...Three-year extendable apcongresswomen, Boggs and Long, every pointment...
...Serials Data protimes find ourselves, on the one hand, ning with the Petrine ministry, exist only gram No.: ISSN 0010-3330...
...There is much we have in church in this way may hasten the day To the Editors: As usual, Abigail McCar- common...
...Paul, Minnesota (Mrs...
...I prefer to use the word ministry Illustrations: Cover, Vic Cantone, Rothco...
...order...
...Our love for him as he marketplace and ecclesial type ministers) erroneous...
...spiritual counseling and for facilitating With the exception of the two Louisiana community service...
...serious analysis of the role that religion You claim to be anti-contra, but with Free booklet: TITUS BRANDSMA: FRIAR AGAINST FASCISM...
...However, few of director is responsible for coordinating rethem said anything at the grassroots ligious services and organizations on the level...
...to ecclesial structures than those lay Abigail McCarthy in her column "As the In 1938 and in 19401 was in Oklahoma people "in the marketplace" whose Synod Nears - 11" [September 12], "street-preaching" and it was a suncause she rightly espouses...
...It Commonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, perience their ministries primarily there...
...many lay men and women see a lack of and world...
...through the NCCB lobbied generally in the spring or fall semester, 1987...
...Here in southern Louisiana, pre- campus, for working with students with dominantly Catholic, not a single Catho- diverse religious interests, for providing Correspondence lic bishop has spoken out on this issue...
...Speaking in this way also reCorrespondence another look at the lay professionals minds us that the church does not exist whom I represent, and to show us some for itself but for others, and that the role of the same seriousness she advocates for of the ministers is subordinate to the those, like herself, who courageously, apostolate of the whole community...
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...McCarthy when she compares Existing for others analysis of the strengths and weaknesses those lay professionals who have experi- Fukushima, Japan of the Rosary College Catholic Evidence enced their calling as tied more closely To the Editors: I was happy to see that Guild in "Lost Innovation" [June 6...
...Feher and Heller simply Vega's lobbying action for the contra do not discuss the Catholic bishops, the terrorists...
...Father Nigro to the cause, or the proliferation of local confused the administration to the point Gonzaga University, Spokane 99258...
...Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y...
...580, 594, 597, 589, Paul Valerry...
...If the wider church - tolerable status quo...
...Occasional teaching (Continued from page 578) possible...
...Classified payable incumbent upon the peace movement to Church/World Watch article [August with order...
...There is little attention to Baton Rouge, La...
...voted consistently for contra aid...
...lived in the church was our prime motivaI believe most of us are sincerely attempt- To begin with, there is no such thing as tion, and we really believed that the soluing to affirm and nurture the growth of the lay apostolate.The church is a com- tion for the world's problems would the lay vocation wherever it may be...
...be to ask-Bishop Vega to condemn the result...
...Central America they must recognize this final analysis, the authors contend that Debra Campbell's discernment of The fact and subject it to a strong, unified Soviet aims and movement philosophy Faith of Our Fathers as an essential part condemnation...
...We did not give much oligarchies and/or a conservative mili- employer...
...Classified what E.P...
...Vol...
...We all face financial difficul- when the noxious weed of clericalism thy's "As the Synod Nears - II" [Sep- ties, conflicts between family and pro- withers and dies...
...position of Director of Religious Activities generate the kind of self-examination and It is true that the American bishops and Chaplaincy Services beginning either dialogue that parts of it should...
...Thompson has said about the To the Editors: If the Catholic church is relationship between preventing extinc- as influential on Central American policy RATES: 750 a word, one time...
...Write: Brandsma Office, PO Box 65, Datotally neglects antinuclear activity in the Hehir makes no mention of Bishop rien, IL 60559-5341...
...I agree with her that and grandchildren, a love for both church Grand Rapids, Mich...
...p. 586, Bernie Tennis, Rothco...
...COMMONWEAL, 15 "make the indivisibility of these two 15] is adding insult to the injury your "In Dutch St., NYC 10038...
...the church as discriminating patriarch als with their "clerical" attitudes may be Nevertheless, in my opinion, until we had not been raised - we were far more worsening the situation of the lay voca- clean up our language we will not be able concerned with "interracial justice" tion rather than helping it...
...help...
...Further capitulation blind spot is probably what makes our the Holy See, in Western Europe, and the is likely in the future, especially on the enterprise seem "pretty weird" to the United States - wants to see peace in issue of German reunification...
...This is precisely what is happenresponsible trouble-makers upsetting a might bring their own contributions...
...The lay vocation as church, are living out the lay vocation Thinking of and speaking about the Mesa, Ariz...
...According to managed to find some cause for hope filled experience...
...causes even more explicit...
...activity calling for a change in the na- that Reagan publicly thanked him for his tion's global posture...
...This ing in Nicaragua...
...I also, are a sign of hope in today's church...
...He Vassar College invites applications for the guarantees that their critique will not has yet to denounce this act...
...1, 1924, to current issues available through University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann majority of whom struggle daily "in the it is to see their role in proper perspec- Arbor, MI 48106 and on Microfiche from Bell & world...
...Together, let us affirm the lay To the Editors: I was very pleased to see respect for the knowledge and expertise vocation and the growth of lay ministries my ancient (1938) words of wisdom in they possess from their education and the wherever they may occur, for they truly the body of Commonweal, since I place experience of their callings...
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...so much value on my few appearances in however, detect some of that same lack EDWARD C. SELLNER the correspondence section...
...monthly in advance for more than three times...
...Christ, to continue his apostolate...
...highways and byways with our invitation ble exceptions, has always sided with the Closing date November 10, 1986 EO /AA to the banquet...
...Hehir also fails to mention Bishop Position Highlighting the more disturbing fea- Vega's ignoring the contra terrorist kiltures evident in the wave of activism that ling of thirty-two Nicaraguan peasants in Director of Religious Activities and Chaplaincy Services...
...movement...
...640, six times...
...Finally, the volume almost many friends...
...I was even of respect and seriousness coming from more pleased with Debra Campbell's Mrs...
...Ironically, however, we some- tive...
...But what is so irritating about Dooms- DOROTHY GOLDEN CLINGMAN RAY E. INGRAM day or Deterrence...
...In munity of equal sisters and brothers come when everybody became a Roman fact, our most recent national confer- united in faith and commitment to...
...suspicion by some lay professionals in for service to the members of the church pp...
...There was a Speaking as one of those lay profes- ingrained clericalism that infects the camaraderie among the priests and laity sionals, a coordinator of a lay ministry church...
...JOHN FRAZIER tember 12] was a perceptive article on the fessional responsibilities, concern for state of lay people and lay ministry here world peace and the lives of our children Innovative find in the United States...
...An advanced degree in an apwhen compared to the wonderful things Louisiana congressman and senator has propriate field and relevant experience we had received from it...
...On all these points, the authors good patron for the guild (if we could contra terrorists in general, and then ask present arguments that ought to be taken have chosen one from outside the roll of the Sandinistas to rescind their expulsion very seriously...
...Resume and three letters of This assurance that we had been richly The history of Central America tells us reference should be sent to Box 3, Vassar blessed emboldened us to go out on the the Catholic hierarchy, with a few nota- College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y...
...Every of the flaws in the institutional church, Catherine, St...
...The ROBERT D. HOLSWORTH against contra aid...
...member of the church is called to this but they seemed very inconsequential McCarthy's alma mater), had its theme apostolate, spreading the Good News (Continued on 606) as "ministry in the marketplace," and and prayer for and in the name of all our speakers were lay people who ex- people, sharing in Christ's priesthood...
...in the world...
...McCarthy as well as Rus- and the men and women who were inprogram who also is chair of the National sell Barta, whom she quotes, use tradi- volved in "Catholic Action" in those Association for Lay Ministry (an organi- tional language that tends to bind us to a days, which came close to making them zation whose members consist of both view of the church that is fundamentally all one in Christ...
...canonized saints...
...Snide com- Messiness, Veritas" editorial and Edment to the effect that churches are more ward Sheehan's article [May 9] undoub- Booklet interested in life than freedom replaces tedly caused the people of Nicaragua...
...Reopening its search, swept Europe in the early 1980's almost his diocese just prior to his expulsion...
...expected...
...namely, the "self-Vichyization of Cardinal Gibbons would have been a July 3 massacre and the activities of the Europe...
...is for this that we are all equally called.Index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review We definitely do not see ourselves as This is not to deny the legitimacy or Digest and Book Review Index...
...The story of a has played in the development of the enemies like you the contras do not need Dachau martyr's resistance to the Nazis...
...Microfilm from "better" than other lay people, the vast necessity of ministers within the church...
...p. 592, Rita Corbin...
...Jesus Catholic...
...Our consciousness of her, those lay ecclesial-type profession- amid the morass of clericalism...
...A good beginning would may converge to produce a catastrophic of our spirit's amalgam is very accurate...
...is that it conveniently ignores evidence that would lead to a Aiding the contras richer, more complex description of the movement...
...All ministries in the church, begin- Howell, Wooster, Ohio 44691...
...We were not entirely ignorant ence, held in June, at the College of St...
...Vocation cerreputations who have lent their prestige $100 million aid for the contras, yet he tain...
...the marketplace because our vocations and apostolate to designate the entire take us more within church structures...
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