Correspondence
Things look great Morristown, N.J. To the Editors: Congratulations on the issue of September 11, with its fine supplement on the laity. The great Newman is still very much alive. MARTIN J....
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...Catholics cannot be strengthened to live the gospel in the secular world if the source of their sustenance is a church plagued by pastoral cruelty, homiletic ineptitude, and injustice...
...To the Editors: The Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church [ ARCC] is grateful for the editorial petition for increased membership [September 11...
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...The Catholic Peace Fellowship provided invaluable counseling and support service in the Vietnam and Gulf conflicts to young Catholics who chose the still unpopular option of conscientious objection...
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...Pax Christi USA today is nationwide in its activities, with regional, collegiate, and parochial chapters promoting its five priorities, and is recognized as such in the Official Catholic Directory listing...
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...Gordon c. zahn The writer, a cofounder of Pax Christi USA, was awarded the title of Ambassador of Peace at the organization's August Assembly...
...Thus among the modern Reformers will be found Catholics for a Free Choice (i.e., for abortion), Catholics for the Latin Mass, and other cults, but, more massively, millions of Catholics—like Marilyn Kramer [Correspondence, June 19], who put down Humanae vitae, who espouse or practice artificial birth control—together with many priests who counsel them to follow their own consciences rather than follow the decree of the church...
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...Other Catholic peace groups, too, deserved recognition they did not receive...
...It is precisely because so many Catholics are now in positions of responsibility in society that the church must get its act together internally...
...To say that reform movements like ARCC have an "obsessive preoccupation with the church's structures and processes" is a rash generalization...
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...To the Editors: The Catholics active or passive in the new Reformation probably all believe in the apostolic character of the church and the primacy of Peter, but draw the line at Matthew 16:19 ["I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven...
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...Kramer would surely agree with Raymond F. Roberts, Jr., whose letter abuts hers, that "it is pure casuistry to propose that a couple who use Natural Family Planning to avoid conception are more 'justified' than another couple who use different methods for the same purpose...
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...The couple who accept the church's dictum that contraception is intrinsically evil and practice NFP say, We want sex here and now, in this fertile period, but we will forgo that pleasure and for the time being abstain...
...They are infected with the secular virus of liberty, of the ordination and exaltation of freedom as absolute...
...Given its increasingly obvious editorial commitment to what might best be described as national security pragmatism, the "new" Commonweal may not regard such lay/clerical/episcopal cooperation on peace and disarmament issues as acceptable Catholic action worthy of mention...
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...Instead of helping the church to move into the twenty-first century with the teachings of Vatican II, the curia continues to resist every movement of the Spirit...
...It is only natural that the training of our youth prompts us to take action in the form of reform movements to combat the inertia...
...The sexually indulgent spouse who says "I will not be denied" comes across as turning away from the one who said his follower "must deny his very self...
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...MARY LOUISE HARTMAN The writer is president of ARCC...
...The disappearance of a Catholic elementary and secondary school system in the United States is now paying dividends: lapsed Catholics, selective morality, submergence of everything into the Mammon culture...
...Many middle-aged Catholics were formed by the great lay movements of the '40s and '50s as well as by the religious education that flourished in those years...
...The contraceptive couple say, We want sex, here and now, in this fertile period, but we want to avoid conception and we will do everything in our power to prevent it...
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...Remember that you have been called to live in freedom, but not a freedom that gives free rein to the flesh....You should...not yield to the cravings of the flesh" [Gal 5:1318...
...The incidental references made by some of your contributors to the 1983 peace pastoral might well have noted that it was Pax Christi bishops who initiated the proposal for the pastoral and that two of the bishops charged with drafting the pastoral were Pax Christi members...
...To the Editors: Your otherwise excellent special supplement on the laity [September 11 ] suffers from a striking omission...
...It remains as it began, a lay movement with clergy and bishops participating as members, neither claiming nor enjoying preference or distinction on grounds of ecclesiastical status...
...The pockmark of the first Reformation reappears as the exaltation of individual freedom and personal interpretation...
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...Nor should we ignore the more dramatic direct activism of the various Plowshares "actions," the continuing heritage of the Berrigans' "Great Catholic Peace Conspiracy" of the Vietnam years...
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...To the Editors: Your issue of September 11 was so upsetting I had to read it twice and blink several times...
...There is an immeasurable gulf between these two positions...
...we agree with Humanae vitae that "every marriage act must be open to the transmission of life...
...We need its sacramental life...
...The rich beauty of its tradition and sacramental life will be lost if we allow this to continue...
...Christian freedom is not secular freedom...
...The daily headlines tell us otherwise...
...The essays in the special supplement reflected a fine range of viewpoints on the role of the laity in the church...
...Since 1977, when the "Chicago Declaration of Christian Concern" was issued, what was then a little-noticed group of Catholics committed to peace, disarmament, and nonviolence has become a significant force in American Catholicism, claiming a membership of 10,000 or more, including a large number of religious and clergy and about a hundred bishops and archbishops...
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