Catholic Higher Education, Theology, and Academic Freedom
Schroth, Raymond A.
A federal agency will supervise the Service Franchise. But each state, if its vot- ers choose to participate, will handle within broad federal guidelines most of the financ- ing and operation,...
...AN AMERICAN CATHOLIC STORY CATHOLIC HIGHER EDUCATION, THEOLOGY, AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM Charles E. Curran Notre Dame University Press, $27.95, 257 pp...
...It also exhibits its cre- ator's political predilections...
...It is a prototypical American story, that of a free individual--reminiscent of OXFORD SUMMER SCHOOL IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES Tuesday 6 August - Monday 19 August, 1991 LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD THE LECTURERS Professor John Macquarrie Bishop Kallistos T. Ware Professor Rowan Williams Dr...
...Despite Buckley's revulsion for redis- tribution, perhaps in the best national-ser- vice system the fortunate would pay their debt to society by paying society's debt to the less fortunate...
...Charles Curran's 1986 removal, at the Vatican's order, from the CU theology faculty for his "liberal" but widely held views on sexual morality and of his losing fight for reinstatement-- ending only recently with his appointment to the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University--is one of the great stories in American Catholic history...
...This raises the question of compulsory national ser- vice, which on its face seems more egal- itarian than a voluntary one...
...Buckley replies that rich kids are not impervious to the denial of driver's licenses and diplomas...
...I wouldn't try this line on the homeless guy I see at my sub- way station many mornings...
...The story of the Rev...
...Sue Gillingham Dr...
...Ignatius to the staff during Lent, and plant eight trees to honor the Jesuit and laywomen martyrs in E1 Salvador...
...For instance, there is real risk that the voluntary nature of the scheme will make it a poor kid's program...
...But Buckley gives short shrift to the compulsory model...
...But these Draconian meas- ures, in a putatively voluntary system, will likely be politically unpalatable...
...Peter Hodgson Dr...
...F. W. Dillistone Canon John Fenton Dr...
...But each state, if its vot- ers choose to participate, will handle within broad federal guidelines most of the financ- ing and operation, including setting appro- priate sanctions, deciding which activities are eligible for national service, etc...
...Why should a rich kid want to spend a year earn- ing a measly few thousand dollars in tax credits and pin money...
...Buckley's goal is great: 80 percent par- ticipation, by Americans born after 1973, by the year 2000...
...Great too is the cost: Assuming half of those eligible sign up, the annual expense would be $16 billion...
...The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., whose own faculty handbook describes it as a"national center for Catholic culture," which "accepts the standards and procedures of American institutions," in a community "faithful to its own national traditions," has affirmed its identity and definition of freedom by expelling its best known and most widely respected moral theologian...
...Raymond A. Schroth t our university we have devised a variety of strategies--some silly, some sub-lime--to allow for freedom but still protect our Catholic iden- tity...
...The problem is not theoretical: the volunteer army is more poor and more black than the nation on aver- age--and has been sharply criticized for it...
...Buckley's blinders about the poor are also bothersome...
...The Service Franchise model is thought- ful and substantial...
...Through national service, he says, citizens can "requite to the land that nurtured them a measure of the profit they take" therefrom...
...Shame on you, Bill...
...We weight the board of trustees with a majority of Jesuits, require controversial speakers who might attack the church to be paired with a speaker from the "other side," impose a rigid core curriculum, offer the spiritual exercises of St...
...Brian Wren A unique opportunity to join a small ecumenical group and study with these distinguished scholars in the intimate setting of historic Lincoln College, Oxford...
...Spend, spend, spend...
...N. T. (Tom) Wright Dr...
...Contact: Norma Christensen 820 Park Avenue Worland, Wyoming 82401 Phone: (307) 347-3836 Fax: (307) 347-2133 or Fernand Beck Fordham Preparatory School The Bronx, New York 10458 Phone/Fax: 212-884-6261 5 April 1991:231...
...Some people, often due to the happenstance of birth, have profited much more from our land than oth- ers...
...But Buckley says the returns are worth it...
...Buckley is creative in crafting carrots and sticks for his plan, but most of them deal with dollars...
Vol. 118 • April 1991 • No. 7
