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...Nathere's need for a greater degree of both I would submit to you that Msgr...
...Readers who recall . CATHOLIC N-T ERSI'Y OF LOUVAIN our editorial, or return to it now, will Gy discover, however, that these letters do not really deal with the specific incident we considered and the issues it raised...
...Benedict T. Viviano, OP...
...I do not women who dedicate their considerable able members of society...
...There are legitimate questions that Pennsylvania's bishops, or any other group, could press on Mario Cuomo...
...If this THE EDITORS points, however, are simply not adequate inconsistent and unwarranted pattern to the specific incident at issue...
...1], I was surprised that he maintains the There are several things to note...
...reflect that kind of commitment...
...But in return please disconTo the Editors: I read your November 1 faithful who seek to know and live tinue trying to pass it off as an "antieditorial - "To Admit Diversity and church teaching, not the teachings of abortion strategy...
...ers must do - consider the consequences Misericordia, Dallas, PA 18612...
...This move by the Ortegas was only THE EDITOR Commonweal: 126...
...All ily...
...We would submit that to "the average - The Los Angeles Times person," a whole series of public ges- brings home the gravity of the issues in Central America and At bookstores everywhere tures by bishops, this one included, looks challenges us to re-evaluate our Or, to order, call toll-free as if the...
...64¢, six times...
...them, to place their Catholicism in quotabeen ignored...
...Its leadership is - To its credit, the NCCC seeks to which it presented a balanced and fair composed of outstanding men and advocate on behalf of the most vulner- portrayal of difficult problems...
...readily seen in Ms...
...same issue, we misspelled the name of 19th Annual Institute on Sacred Scripture August 3-8, 1986...
...which are dues-paying members of courage strategies that are divisive and, To the Editors: Your November 1 edito- NCCC...
...Thus Miria,;' Ward...
...PHYLLIS ZAGANO -As I understand it, the bishops who tion marks...
...Maillet, that this world proclaimed the denunciation came not just from legiti- shocking news of the brumate "members" of the NCCC but from tal murder of Jean a state conference of Catholic bishops...
...There harder than anybody" to assure that abor- Arbor, MI 48106 and on Microfiche from Bell & Howell, Wooster, Ohio 44691...
...of several governors who have been es- About forty years ago I became a faith- The NCCC is an excellent organiza- pecially insistent that tax dollars be used ful reader of Commonweal, partly betion that does wonderful work in the to pay for abortions...
...of several governors who have been es- About forty years ago I became a faith- The NCCC is an excellent organiza- pecially insistent that tax dollars be used ful reader of Commonweal, partly betion that does wonderful work in the to pay for abortions...
...public secular forum...
...To avoid extending such an inRecently, however, there appears to ernor Cuomo has not, as you suggest in vitation to a person because of his objecbe considerable backsliding, with more your editorial [November I], been "pub- tionable public record on a centrally imfrequent attempts by some to proscribe licly delegitimated...
...nor Cuomo's public record on abortion, of organizations to which they belong, MARIO M. CUOMO Governor of New York it stretches the ordinary meaning of unless they make very clear their diswords to refer to it as an "anti-abortion (Continued on page 124) strategy...
...Since that time, The American Cuomo has spoken to anti-abortion stratCollege Theological Institute has become well-known among egy - in his Notre Dame address primarthe clergy in many dioceses throughout the United States...
...But that ing bishop put it, the NCCC ought, then, example of that care...
...Ninth An- berto Ortega returned from Cuba, leted at the top of page 56...
...slaying of 1 % million unborn babies each Diocese of Tuls The •diters r.ply: Edward L. Maillet, and Phyllis Zagano attempt to construct plausible arguments why Governor Cuomo should not have The American College been invited to address the Catholic Charities meeting...
...agreement...
...meet the growing demands of priests interested in a quality Our point was simply that Governor program of theological renewal...
...dinista front.' Had...
...White Magi Books, Inc...
...Al- White presumably knows (Christian, pp...
...PA 18612...
...He argued that the dure - yet still found myself unprepared priate that dissent be forcefully expressed organization should remain committed to for the beauty of the ending...
...jectionable...
...Christian is convincing in Notebooks, Jacques Maritain, 312 pages, offer Pastora the position to placate Tor- her documentation of precisely this $13.89 post...
...Write: Sister DOROTHY LENIX for the benefit of his supporters...
...Steven Blakemore concentrates his Professor Walter Dellinger of Duke Law Carroll Stuhimueller, CP...
...Donovan's truth is stronger in ried about how the NCCC invitation A testament to Jean Donovan's death than in life, and it won't stay might appear to "the average person...
...agreement...
...With effort I will refrain in investigation and discussion must be this letter from calling it a "pro-abortion Albany, N.Y...
...Carolyn Osiek, energies on a trivial point...
...VT 05401, June 15-20, 1986...
...After relating how one of several examples I cited which the Sandinistas "were willing to give Pastora was considered too "bourgeois" demonstrate that the Sandinistas came to command of their combined armies to a and ideologically inconsistent by some power not as committed ideologues, but declared anti-Marxist...
...Commonweal: 124 painful, tumultous events which they en- When that happens it seems very appro- year in the U.S...
...It will Correspondence or clerical Catholics who seek to investi- strengthen his candidacy for Democratic gate the ways in which the unfortunate party nominations, and it will lead to an law of the land might be lived with while increased number of abortions...
...That sort of thing happens all at the NCCC annual meeting does not the time in large organizations...
...107, 117, soapstone figthe cancellation or delay of a second parental consent for abortions performed ures, Zimbabwe...
...goes unchallenged, it may abet pro-life As our " editorial stated, "Governor efforts in the short-run - and provoke an Misloadiinq account Cuomo's decision not to support the U. S. angry reaction from enough Boca Raton, Fla...
...He has simply been portant issue is not the same as avoiding and ostracize those who disagree with treated appropriately...
...Maillet, for example, claims that June 29 to July 26 we tried to "`pass off" Governor Cuomo's record on abortion as an The Theological Institute was begun in the summer of 1975 to "anti-abortion strategy...
...vigorous advocacy to protect the lives of a transcendence of revenge, a commit, It is not especially remarkable that pro- those yet-unborn babies who are surely ment to ending the spiral of hatred, a testors might insist that an invitation to a among the most innocent and most vulrendering of love and forgiveness so keynote speaker should be withdrawn nerable members of the human family...
...bishops' effort to replace Roe v. Wade independent-minded Catholics to di- To the Editors: In his review of Shirley with a ban on abortion does not distin- minish considerably the church's social Christian's book, Nicaragua: Revoluguish him from many other political fig- influence, injuring seriously its teachingtion in the Family [Commonweal, ures, Catholics included...
...alone...
...COMMONWEAL., 232 tian, p. 89...
...It is simply not appro- on minors...
...That, too, encountered opposition...
...There are legitimate questions that Pennsylvania's bishops, or any other group, could press on Mario Cuomo...
...12208...
...Distinguished Faculty...
...reflect that kind of commitment...
...Appropriate ignorance Governor Cuomo has not made a seCommonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to New York, N.Y...
...Statements like yours of abortion strategy, we believe Governor public posture of the organization...
...in the Washington, D.C...
...RSCJ...
...His - Governor Cuomo's assigned topic reaction does not strike me as unreasonas keynote speaker was to be "A Just Tax able...
...Illustrations: Cover & p. 179, Ndebele wall depropriate that he do so...
...American Catholic hierarchy is own responsibilities...
...Whatever the School...
...willingness of the Sandinistas to listen In fact, White distorts the sentence Humberto Ortega traveled to Cuba dur- and respond to the concerns of Western from Christian's hook by leaving out per- ing this time, and when he returned to leaders...
...He has Vol...
...He has, without qualification, iden- Index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review Digest and Book Review Index...
...offered to make Pastora supreme "move" by the Ortegas "was presuma- bring about radical change...
...alone...
...Those tion in Central America, etc., etc...
...cause I was impressed by the care with name of the church...
...Torrijos of Panama only underlines the exile and armed opposition...
...All ily...
...history of Bernardino Larios, which Mr...
...I found there in letters to the organization's leadership...
...cause I was impressed by the care with name of the church...
...cupy most of Mr...
...Whatever the governor's inten- wards, Whig-Standard, Kingston, Canada...
...But I'm hopeful that we will return to a Endorse 'Discussion" observes that "On One thing is clear, they are not outsiders more reasonable starting point for disthe issue of the most prudential anti- who have no legitimate interest in the cussion...
...It is simply not ap- designed to restrict access to abortion...
...Or call (717) 675-3862...
...Daniel and Humberto Ortega fell through, Christian notes that the ing to work with disparate elements to...
...The author replies: We also regret that in our editorial Sacred Scripture "Who Will Judge the Judges...
...In fact, the Sandinistas adapted for long in this hypothetical case of Marxist-Leninist theory to the circumBiblical Institute 21st Biblical Institute, Trinity College, Bur- "what if...
...Moreover, given the sad point, as is Humberto Belli in Christians Raissa's Journal, 400 pages, also $13.89...
...In Donovan, a 27-year-old the concrete, it makes a difference that this protest was not simply "forcefully American lay missionary, expressed," but that it totally blurred and three Catholic sisters questions of fundamental dissent from by government soldiers in church teaching and of prudential differ- El Salvador...
...systematically anathematizing Catholic politicians who disagree with the 28 February 1986: 125 November 1], Robert E. White says that tinent information...
...It honest, so compelling as to renew my when they find that the honoree's public seemed to him that an invitation to Govown love for us, for our species, and my record on an important issue is very ob- ernor Cuomo to serve as keynote speaker own hope...
...J. tional Conference of Catholic Charities clarity and charity in setting the "ground Jerome Boxleitner's upsetment at losing (NCCC) and as the Executive Director of rules for dissent, dialogue, and pluralism "an opportunity to discern a major issue an agency member of that organization, I in the American Catholic world on the in the Catholic church today, namely, the would like to make several observations matter of abortion...
...That sort of thing happens all at the NCCC annual meeting does not the time in large organizations...
...Copyright © 1986 Coming before the National Conference of 1982...
...Zagano is no uninformed ordinary story of the young woman observer but an erstwhile academician who felt called to serve God and now employed by the New York arch- left the protected, affluent suburbs diocese...
...p. 120, Fang carving, all from "pro-choice" ad...
...Maillet's letter...
...1986 THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Mr...
...tions, his strategy will have two predictCommonweal: 98 painful, tumultous events which they en- When that happens it seems very appro- year in the U.S...
...What does distinguish him is that he has offered a reasoned defense of his chosen course," on 345-32984-8 BA L L...
...As one protest- find the editorial in question to be a good talents to very good purposes...
...He has opposed any bills that are monweal Foundation...
...Roland Murphy, Bruce Metzger, Reginald - it was an idea that was briefly floated Fuller, Joseph Cunneen...
...Having in mind, however, some questions about For further information and an application form, please write: the governor's reading of the current The American College consensus, we went on to say: "This Theological Institute doesn't mean his position is sacrosanct, Naamsestraat 100 or devoid of political calculation, or 3000 Leuven, BELGIUM should be immune to political pressure...
...Blakemilitary commander of the United San- bly linked to the desire to retain the assis- more did not dispute this central thesis...
...Steven circumstances and motivation, it is a fact Finally, in the Religious Booknotes Davies, Ph.D...
...right of a person to address us even on the controversy discussed in your After my speech at Notre Dame [Sep- though we may not entirely agree with editiorial: tember 13, 1984] and other speeches and the presenter's views in all areas," is - It seems to me that a major organiarticles by politicians, theologians, and misplaced...
...slaying of 1 % million unborn babies each Diocese of Tuls The •diters r.ply: Edward L. Maillet, and Phyllis Zagano attempt to construct plausible arguments why Governor Cuomo should not have The American College been invited to address the Catholic Charities meeting...
...deed, there is a sense in which members that we must...
...I found there in letters to the organization's leadership...
...But few knew ence over policy...
...Readers who recall . CATHOLIC N-T ERSI'Y OF LOUVAIN our editorial, or return to it now, will Gy discover, however, that these letters do not really deal with the specific incident we considered and the issues it raised...
...You've done us all a great Whatever else may be said about Gover- become implicated in the public posture service...
...leadership can and does make some deci- to be in the forefront in the fight against EDWARD L. MAILLET sions which will at times provoke vigor- abortion which leads to the deliberate Executive Director, Catholic Charities, ous disagreement from some members...
...Eden Pastora ac- tance of General Torrijos [of Panama] That the Ortegas may have made this cepted the proffered title and power, he and outgoing President Perez [of Ven- offer to placate President Carlos Andres could well have become the maximum ezuela], both of whom wanted Pastora to Perez of Venezuela and General Omar leader of Nicaragua instead of going into be the dominant figure in the FSLN...
...First, Sandinistas "did not persecute the Maritain the Ortega brothers were only willing to church...
...dropping an h. We are eartily sorry...
...military theater coming together in Costa To the Editors: Having read both Shirley RATES: 75 it a word, one time...
...The sentence nual Workshop for those working in pro- Pastora was relegated to a comand out- should read: "Throughout the narrative grams for the aging in religious com- side Nicaragua, and the idea of his pro- we catch glimpses of an astute political munities...
...meet the growing demands of priests interested in a quality Our point was simply that Governor program of theological renewal...
...In the concrete, it makes a difference to Headlines around the us, as it does not to Mr...
...The MISSIONARY MURDERED bishops went on to compare an invitation to Cuomo to an invitation to "a racist...
...1986 THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Mr...
...Nor does it seem to me that he Correspondence System and the Church...
...Or call STEVEN BLAKEMORE of laws, policies, statements, actions...
...faith, SALVADOR WITNESS buried in government double-talk...
...vigorous advocacy to protect the lives of a transcendence of revenge, a commit, It is not especially remarkable that pro- those yet-unborn babies who are surely ment to ending the spiral of hatred, a testors might insist that an invitation to a among the most innocent and most vulrendering of love and forgiveness so keynote speaker should be withdrawn nerable members of the human family...
...For all I know they may also be perhaps more important, nonproductive...
...A NT I N E/ traditional grounds of prudence, even $3.95 while he gave "unqualified assent to the EPIPHANY church's teaching on human fife...
...Nor does it seem to me that he Correspondence System and the Church...
...Having in mind, however, some questions about For further information and an application form, please write: the governor's reading of the current The American College consensus, we went on to say: "This Theological Institute doesn't mean his position is sacrosanct, Naamsestraat 100 or devoid of political calculation, or 3000 Leuven, BELGIUM should be immune to political pressure...
...122-123, 135), it is doubtful that the low Leninist theory to install a "Leninist Sandinistas would have tolerated Pastora system...
...Catholic Charities...
...protested the invitation to Governor I regret that trend because it tends to Stretching the meaning Cuomo are heads of diocesan agencies put a halt to public discourse and to enTulsa, Okla...
...For brochure contact: Thomas motion was dropped...
...It seems un- should be expected to refrain from forcesurprising that some would find special fully expressing his reaction because he (Continued from page 98) irony in that assignment, since he is one is a bishop...
...And that we believe his prudential courses are designed specifically for the Institute and taught at argument - about the need for consensus to precede legislative restriction - is the College by professors of the University...
...SALVADOR WITNESS misrepresenting the governor's position...
...Commonweal: 124 Nor did we contest the right of the bishops' political program as regards credibility in the area of abortion, much NCCC members to exercise their con- abortion - in a manner utterly different as long since happened in the area of cern about whom the organization con- from, anything the bishops have done contraception...
...For brochure contact Sr...
...p. 108, Rita Corbin...
...Zagano's letter, Ana Carrigan, award-winning filmwhere she casually describes Cuomo as maker with years of experience in "a politician who dissents from Catholic Latin America, explores the extrateaching...
...InNovember I prove that we can and warn Cuomo is more right than wrong...
...It seems un- should be expected to refrain from forcesurprising that some would find special fully expressing his reaction because he (Continued from page 98) irony in that assignment, since he is one is a bishop...
...cret of his public policy position on abor- Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, To the Editors: A word rarely used in tion...
...As one protest- find the editorial in question to be a good talents to very good purposes...
...But let's The governor regrets awaiting its change, but the forums for make a pact...
...Maillet, for example, claims that June 29 to July 26 we tried to "`pass off" Governor Cuomo's record on abortion as an The Theological Institute was begun in the summer of 1975 to "anti-abortion strategy...
...cover drawing, Frank Edwhat it is meant to be - take place in a tions...
...Second-class postage suing his political goals by his not speak- of income (New York Times, August 8, paid at New York, N.Y...
...1, 1924, to current issues available through and ramifications of the church's teach- bragged in public that he had "fought University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann ing on abortion is "appropriate...
...monthly in advance for more tion in the Family and Robert E. White's northern border in Honduras" (Chris- review of it [Commonweal, November than three times...
...Serials Data prois no loss in Governor Cuomo's not pur- tion is available to all women regardless gram No.: ISSN 0010-330...
...more right than wrong...
...And that we believe his prudential courses are designed specifically for the Institute and taught at argument - about the need for consensus to precede legislative restriction - is the College by professors of the University...
...more right than wrong...
...I do not women who dedicate their considerable able members of society...
...that may convey - matters which oc- nuclear arms, poverty, military interven- Our correspondents do not face it...
...tracks Jean's emergence from an The Pennyslvania bishops were wor- impetuous, insecure person to a mature, dedicated woman...
...Microfilm from discussions of the political complications tified himself as "pro-choice...
...1-800-638-6460...
...In short, Mr...
...lic organization on moral theology...
...The book tells Sandinista leaders and how a proposal to as pragmatic revolutionaries willing to how only six months before the final vic- give him a seat on the FSLN directorate work with disparate revolutionaries willtory...
...In addition, Mr...
...Second, Christian makes it lington...
...Gov- meeting...
...rial entitled "To Admit Diversity and individual members of the Conference...
...His - Governor Cuomo's assigned topic reaction does not strike me as unreasonas keynote speaker was to be "A Just Tax able...
...Under Fire...
...Classified payable from within Nicaragua or from across the Christian's book, Nicaragua: Revoluwith order...
...680, three Rica, but excluding anything organized times...
...clear that Pastora was not offered the stances of Nicaraguan "reality": they Faculty: Oonald Senior, Carolyn Osiek, made Lenin "fit" the revolution and not position of supreme military commander the other way around...
...No such thing...
...seems to think that it is necessary to folbany, N.Y...
...Since that time, The American Cuomo has spoken to anti-abortion stratCollege Theological Institute has become well-known among egy - in his Notre Dame address primarthe clergy in many dioceses throughout the United States...
...He insists that tax dollars be African Designs from Traditional Sources (Dover priate that such discussion - if that is used to expand the availabilty of abor- Publications, 1971...
...leadership can and does make some deci- to be in the forefront in the fight against EDWARD L. MAILLET sions which will at times provoke vigor- abortion which leads to the deliberate Executive Director, Catholic Charities, ous disagreement from some members...
...Its leadership is - To its credit, the NCCC seeks to which it presented a balanced and fair composed of outstanding men and advocate on behalf of the most vulner- portrayal of difficult problems...
...jectionable...
...Pastora, contrary to what White Corrections: In Mary C. SeAging Religious: Our suggests, did not reject an offer that was gers's review of Ferraro: My Story Responsibility never made in toto...
...Is she just being inexcusably to join the Salvadorans in their sufcareless in her wording - or purposely fering...
...paid, is a new companion to rijos and Perez...
...As soon as Hum- [January 31, 1986], two words were deWorkshop: June 22-27, 1986...
...Endorse Discussion" - and agree that politicians of either church or state...
...the facts behind the tragThe effect of such blurring can be edy...
...professional able to do what public leadO'Neill, Institute of Gerontology, College White's account is, at best, misleading...
...It honest, so compelling as to renew my when they find that the honoree's public seemed to him that an invitation to Govown love for us, for our species, and my record on an important issue is very ob- ernor Cuomo to serve as keynote speaker own hope...
...This problem, our editosorts with, and what political messages concerning their political positions on rial pointed out, "will have to be faced...
...That is, he has d;alogue with him...
...No such thing...
...ROBERT E. WHITE Costa Rica, he and his brother announced that Pastora was military commander of The shoe fits Classified the Southern Front, the name used for the Swampscott, Mass...
...I can think A nothing less zation like NCCC confers special honor bishops, I felt - as others did - that the appropriate than a politician who dissents on a person when it selects him to deliver level of the dialogue had been raised a from Catholic teaching lecturing a Catho- the keynote address at its annual national notch or two...
...But that ing bishop put it, the NCCC ought, then, example of that care...
...carefully chosen so as not to mislead the strategy...
...As an individual member of the...
...717) 675-3862...
...There is no loss in He even opposed legislation requiring sign, South Africa...
...For this, the Pennsylvania bishops treated him as devious and disloyal: "No other politician has so elaborately rationalized YOUNG AMERICAN opposition," they wrote, "to the bishops' [anti-abortion] efforts...
...Madison Ave., NYC 10016...
...that the Ortega brothers proposed making column for February 14, 1986, the name Noel Keller, RSM, Institute on Sacred Eden Pastora supreme military comman- of Shambhala Publications found us Scripture, College Misericordia, Dallas, der of the Unified Sandinista Front...
...33 Buckingham Dr...
...p. 104, Bas., Tachydro,mos, Greece...
...He argued that the dure - yet still found myself unprepared priate that dissent be forcefully expressed organization should remain committed to for the beauty of the ending...
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