Ministry
Doyle, Dennis M.
book is a chapel filled on a Sunday night many of them come bearing the wounds of terested in the rich Catholic tradition to with several hundred students coming on a society that...
...committed to a vision of Christianity too often there is no reason to stay mar- How can people react responsibly to a docpervasively and profoundly marked by ried...
...Indeed, one of the several useful sug- and whose fate Ken Woodward lamentgestions he makes to his fellow campus ed...
...That does not mean waiting for pie Kenneth Untener to comment on the "pasin the sky but rather realizing that the life toral consequences" of Humanae vitae...
...and fitheir understanding of the interrelationship lished in the wake of Vatican II...
...The Boston college David I lollenhaeh Social Ethics IRE PM Robert Imbelli Foundation in Theology various Protestant reformations, the Luke Johnson Luke/Acts Department R American and French revolutions, Vatican Chestnut Nil...
...Osborne consistently launches Above all else, the third-millennium can use Balaam's ass to get his message theologically competent challenges both Christian will return to the gospels again across, he may also use a woman gyneto these presuppositions and to the con- and again, seeking to establish in his or her cologist who has taught natural family clusions to which they lead...
...in addition to pro- Catholic Church otherwise become rarified and precious...
...But if God gospel...
...only when that context is well established can they begin to think about distinctions in role or rank...
...them effectively requires the same virtues lectual tradition is underway...
...I predict that my grad- can be sexually available whenever the in the position of defending its own au- uate students will love this book, being man feels a need...
...each a misreading of the New Testament on the to the shaping of the church of the twen- derives the authoritative interpretation of crucial topic of discipleship...
...thority, but that this is done not for au- awed by its scholarship and empowered If this appears to be a condemnation of thority's sake but for the sake of the by its vision...
...By the year 1000, lay peo- Mary Boys Educating in Faith ple were regarded as simply the passive Bernard Cooke Eucharist and Social Justice recipients of the hierarchy's powers...
...Commonweal led to an epidemic of sexually transmit- U maintains that dissenters have been ''The finest survey yet written in the area ted diseases, to single-parent pregnan- treated badly by the magisterium...
...The Sacred Congre- sight, that life lived within the world can the teachings of Paul VI and John Paul II, gation for the Doctrine of the Faith holds be a primary locus of Christian disciple- quite possibly from an unconscious male that the intentions of Jesus and the guid- ship, is a point given insufficient attention chauvinism...
...Imagine New Beginnings Stressing commonalities before distinctions is not in itself a new idea...
...ministry and reform movements as he traces the dissolution and reemergence of Come and see how the Institute can assist you in meeting your goals lay discipleship against the background of through summer and academic year courses and workshops for enrichment...
...Integrative Colloquium Barbara Reid Introduction to the New Testament DENNIS M. DOYLE, who teaches ecclesiol- Jon Sobrino Spirituality & Discipleship ogy at the University of Dayton, is the author of The Church Emerging from Vatican II (Twenty-Third Publications...
...The latter represents in part lay faithful and the risk of creating, in resands of enthusiastic young adults for an admission that faculty are being hired ality, an ecclesial structure of parallel serwhom their college years have indeed for their specialized knowledge rather vice to that founded on the sacrament of been formative of their Catholic faith...
...Clair Introduction to Pastoral Counseling Special One Week Courses: July 11 - 22 .lames and Contemporary Issues in Evelyn Whitehead Pastoral,% inistrn' REVIEWERS Week 1 Spirituality & Sexuality in Ministry (July l l-15) DENNIS O'BRIEN is president of the Univer- Week 2 Partnership in Ministry (.July 18-22) sity of Rochester...
...strates how the first Christian millennium witnessed the gradual but scandalous loss Session One...
...It is these works, for all of their impressive ness of his own sets of presuppositions...
...A he warns against the temptation to accept and issues...
...er group who attend Catholic colleges WORK...
...Wisely, Hunt insists on more sophisticated (less parochial, more coming too interested in inner church mata two-way conversation: graduates need rigorous), and that there is a growing in- ters to the neglect of their involvements to make an effort to find and join vital terest among some students and faculty for in family, work, and society...
...To the of feminist theological discourse...
...the rise of clericalism...
...Similarly, a summer program their own to participate at Mass...
...Osborne demon- or a revitalizing sabbatical...
...If we were to ask whether Untener accyclical has led to the mutual exploitation cepts HV, we would have to say that he of men and women...
...than their faith commitment, but also a re- orders...
...It also needs gadflies selves...
...number of my graduate students (though rather than challenge the current zeitgeist Consolidating such efforts will provide certainly not all) feel that the pope is on campus...
...As one woman tells him, stopping with him lead me to suspect that he pos- like Ken Woodward and pastors like "being" a Catholic for her meant stopping sesses those virtues and that the Catholic Michael Hunt...
...nally, each declares confidently that many of clergy and laity...
...Surely, students who became involved in the there's more to it than that, and Hunt me- Newman Center at Tufts are onto a good thodically covers all the other bases (so- thing...
...M.Ed., C.A.E.S...
...not good, because humans are contingent scholarship, lurks an impassioned evan- Osborne might also have conceded beings, and our happiness greatly depends gelical reformer who insists on dragging more the merits of documents such as on knowing how we were designed to his Catholicism along with him...
...dents, most of whom are plation that establishes a personal relation- Is Catholic intellectual life alive and well training for lay ministries, ship with God, but they need as well to on such campuses in the way Woodward have felt confused and dehear the gospel's challenge to change the recalls from Notre Dame in the fifties...
...It needs Hunt sees the Mass as central not only as good parenting: attentiveness, patience, much more nurturing within and beyond theologically but also psychologically and and good judgment...
...He displays a re- Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry markable grasp of the history of Christian Ministry in Transition: Keeping Pace With a Changing World...
...feminist values...
...He warns also parish communities, but parishes need to a Catholic Studies program as part of the of the danger of "a `clericalization' of the adapt as well if they want to draw the thou- curriculum...
...role models, not overaged adolescents...
...but common worship the Catholics at Tufts and elsewhere who THE CHURCH'S remains a touchstone for his ministry, as don't get involved as well as the even largit does for parish life...
...Only if and when who, as a consecrated religious, underthese stances more sympathetically, that he or she reflects Jesus, at whatever level stands the Christian meaning of human in either the church or in society-at-large, sexuality...
...Osborne uses ty-first century...
...Just as ways Catholics, are teaching courses in the when they perform ministries within the Hunt resists the prevailing wisdom that social and hard sciences as well as the hu- church they are assisting the hierarchy in college students are confirmed secularists, manities that deal with Catholic themes a sphere that is not properly their own...
...Combine that with ly Catholic interests had its first session make up, as a non-Catholic colleague a multibillion-dollar youth culture and you at Fairfield University this past June...
...That world (mainly Jesuit) schools, I'd say that the lay people is not in the church but in the includes parishes very different from col- general level of academic life is probably world...
...Ph.D...
...intercourse ad lib for men appears to them many early developments that are not The theme that Osborne does empha- to be worse than taking candy from a found in the Scriptures in a way that is size, however, the full discipleship of all baby...
...NOW IN PAPERBACK will he or she truly live the gospel...
...The world of business and politics they're pre- some secondhand knowledge of other pope stresses that the special mission of sumably preparing to enter...
...Osborne and Kung both offer mammoth for in-church lay ministry as flowing di- This is an important book, one that can works that interpret the council against the rectly from one's life as a Christian...
...The rising divorce rate agrees with the people who do not accept attests to the isolation that accompanies it...
...Well, first of all, Dennis M. Doyle ministers is to use the parish as a frame the Catholic college's responsibility for its of reference, not in a mechanical way but Catholic students goes far beyond that of MINISTRY: Lay Ministry in the Roman as a reality check on a ministry that can a Newman chaplain's...
...0 going to Mass on a regular basis...
...He cautions against lay people belege chaplaincies...
...He is the author of God and Session Three: July 25 - August 5 the New Haven Railway (Beacon...
...sitions have been taught in seminaries, The nonacceptance of Humanae vitae marriage preparation courses, most moral 28: 10 September 1993 Commonweal...
...O The writer is executive director of the Natural Family Planning Center of _`Perhaps the best book_ Washington, D.C...
...June 27 - July S of lay status...
...continuing education and degrees-1[.,1...
...For all of these associa- Scripture more from contemporary scholhis own reading of the New Testament and tions, however, the book most reminds arship than from an examination of how Vatican II to help Catholics reconfigure me of Hans Kung's The Church, pub- the Scriptures have been received...
...Behind each of played more awareness of the tentative- and that such separation is a good...
...Substantial financial aid is available...
...What per- far more rapidly than earlier generations: called Collegium for advanced graduate centage of the Catholic population at Tufts broken homes, addictions, promiscuity, students and young faculty with similarthis represents is not indicated, but it does phony sophistication...
...Each ondarily through the hierarchy...
...Lay people derive their mission The refreshing realism of that sugges- alization that faculty members, not al- in the world directly from Christ, but tion pervades the rest of the book...
...In Osborne's and the Gospel (617)352-S440 opinion, some current official positions re- (SIlt1) 487-1167 Brian McDermott Christology garding laity, women, and ministry are im- (617) 552-1811 (fax) Michael St...
...Ministering to a revival of interest in the Catholic inteltakes place on a regular basis...
...WH of grace gives us the strength to dominate This means how people have reacted to . is our passions...
...ble that can inhibit as well as promote lege (or university) provides the framework their maturing: good liturgies, retreats, for the students' whole experience on and spiritual counseling can channel their campus: from admission to curriculum, ome of my graduate stuinevitable introspection toward contem- from student life to volunteer work...
...Failure to follow the en- it...
...Who has been lionized by the $15.95 many regard as a primary contraceptive secular media since 1968, the magisteriAt bookstores or call 1-800-937-5557 rather than a remedy for contraceptive fail- um or dissenting theologians...
...and for the student but a forum for faculty in- In Ministry, Kenan Osborne offers an 26: 10 September 1993 Commonweal alternative vision...
...ferent set of presuppositions concerning the shaping of the church in the twenty- The tragedy is that bishops and priests the relationship between Scripture, tra- first century...
...comments to Hunt, "the largest voluntary, get a generation often wary of making life There's no going back to the fifties, but not-for-credit gathering of students that decisions and commitments...
...Students are looking for adult not only a coherent intellectual discipline pulling the rug out from under them...
...Whose poCROSSROAD ure...
...The Christians within the church, is equally of take all sorts of health risks so that they CDF acknowledges that it is often placed great significance...
...Osborne's contribution lies in the extraordinary range Boston College and depth that he brings to bear on this topic through his synthesis of Scripture, Summer 1994 tradition, and Vatican II...
...holds that any false dichotomization be- Memory of Her, and Leondardo Boff's each seems to put little stock in the guidtween clergy and laity represents both an Church: Charism and Power as ground- ance of the Holy Spirit in developments overly selective reading of Vatican II and breaking scholarship that will contribute that cannot be traced to the Scriptures...
...Kathleen llughes Dynamics of Catholic Worship JOHN B. BRESLIN, S.J., is university chaplain Joseph Komonchak Theology of Church at Georgetown University, where he teaches Claire Lowery Theology and Pastoral Practice: twentieth-century Catholic fiction...
...I wish that personal and social life the very meaning planning for the past twenty years and he had done so in a manner that explored of gospel discipleship...
...Catholics share first a common humanity and a common Christian discipleship...
...Osborne Face, Elizabeth Schi ssler Fiorenza's In strongly prefers Scripture to tradition...
...now, but in the light of our eternal des- To the Editors: The editors asked Bishop SHE tiny...
...He sees the justification peding this development...
...Without vulnerability, never read HV although it is only eighteen r1i_ ui1 If1.l 1011 s(A\ spouses' paths diverge increasingly, and pages long, written twenty-five years ago...
...What of the latter...
...WHO DOES cial justice, sexual morality, personal But that leaves open the question about spirituality, etc...
...Commonweal 10 September 1993: 27 official positions, past and present, are anticipated the way that the Vatican would is rooted in the false premise that sex and based more on preserving power than on respond to his arguments, and that dis- procreation are intrinsically separable, promoting discipleship...
...Choice cies, and, too often, to abortion, which contrary...
...it is find a place alongside Edward Schille- background of Scripture while reviewing not something that needs to be derived sec- beeckx's The Church with a Human the entire sweep of church history...
...Proposing to place limits on ance of the Holy Spirit are reflected in by Osborne...
...College students live in a four-year bub- often includes resident chaplains, the col- Paulist Press, $29.95, 722 pp...
...Religious Expression, to reestablish lay power...
...IL1 Catherine LaCugna Mystery of the Triune God II, Christian feminism, and African and 02167-3931 Session Two: July 11 - July 22 Latin American liberation movements all Walter Brucggemann The Prophets: represent attempts during our millennium Tradition and Imagination or Call: Virgil Elizondo Culture...
...Reading the many the classroom on Catholic campuses, as even sociologically to Catholic identity, stories in Michael Hunt's book and meet- well as within and beyond the chapel at and he gets this from the students them- ing a couple of students who have worked secular universities...
...John Paul II's liberating in- have failed miserably in disseminating dition, and authority...
...of feminist theology CORRESPONDENCE Blind shepherds to date) -Library journal (Continued from page 2) Gaithersburg, Md...
...He admits most have the logical Reispecd e . schedules overlap...
...Women, on the other hand, are to accessible to modern scholarship...
...HANNA KLAUS, M.D...
...Christifideles laici, which, despite its work: "When everything else fails, read Vatican documents operate with a dif- flaws, will itself contribute positively to the directions...
...Bishop Untener's position, it is...
...Outside marriage, contraception has ument they have never read...
...At,mery..ot the use of contraception: each can live his/ U wants to talk only in terms of peocud in a tun~inisl _ her own life and only meet in bed when ple's perceptions...
...book is a chapel filled on a Sunday night many of them come bearing the wounds of terested in the rich Catholic tradition to with several hundred students coming on a society that has forced them to "grow up" share ideas...
...pressed upon reading John world beyond themselves, the larger Based on a dozen years at Georgetown and Paul II's Christifideles laici (1989...
...viding a campus ministry program which Kenan B. Osborne, O.F.M...
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