The Lonely Man of Faith

Wyschogrod, Michael

ly before he is given the gift of...

...gious identity is tied up with his loneli- on the human rights of working men and Soloveitchik distinguishes two human ness...
...I7cpar]ment of Religious Scu lies be brought, or to file a civil suit against t'nivcrsin• of Ihn-ton the accused and the diocese...
...From experience that, at least in the diocese he represents, pelled to respond...
...Ipswich, Massachusetts 01938 (508) 356-5299 the evaluation is being made for the dio- My conclusion from this line of reaSanta Catalina School is an equal opportunity cese, we are advised of the clinic's find- soning, and my strong recommendation, employer...
...with a dissertation on Hermann seriously as it appears...
...Since civil or criminal action, or both...
...Luke Institute in Suitland, Maryland...
...Medical Ethics Dermot Lane Death, Hope and Eternal Life The mix was right Lucien Richard, O.M.I...
...how King's comdents in which Catholic clergy have sex- secrecy about sexual behavior [and] does plex thought and personality provide the central fulcrum upon which contempoually molested children and church not have democracy's equivalent of checks rary African American theological and officials have covered up these crimes...
...is clearly inappropriate today...
...He tells his weal contributor, is the author of Life's Blood deserves the gratitude of the whole reli- readers that he is lonely, in spite of all the (Simon & Schuster...
...A pastoral ap- diocesan policy, provided it is meant to ing to us with the wrong Zip Code will proach to victims must be the first (and protect the identity of the victim and the have their letters returned marked "addressee unknown...
...Our procedure is not spiritual and psychological help may be as any investigation is for victims to unlike that currently in place in Chicago, offered, and recommending a future course bear, accusation must not be regarded as though because of limited diocesan re- to the bishop in dealing with the accused...
...Giving in FRANCES TRAMP IETS, SC Communicating the Gospel to this clamor is in some sense an easy way in the Electronic Age 6114-18 out...
...the newsletter or in learning about the foredge the problem would still be festering...
...cause of such sexual illness, but argues that -The New York Times paper $19.95 the "crisis is rooted in a celibate mindset...
...The DENNIS DOYLE Ecclesiology media seek complete exposure...
...Last January ism...
...the clos- "mix religion and politics...
...Financial Aid...
...My meditation was read as intro- ture church leaders on the proper way to Sadly, the abortion referendum was duction before each mystery...
...ly before he is given the gift of Eve...
...Because the problem he rais- priest, and, if necessary, to provide him the price that will have to be paid for past es is multifaceted, however, we want to with treatment and remove him from temp- evasions...
...This the press-particularly Catholics who tims or helpful to their healing...
...Once removed from the parish and jected to a forced confession process that Santa Catalina School seeks to fill the position of Director of Lower School, effective July, 1993...
...The process ure...
...Of all the reports, cago case Berry mentions, we are unable how many must be accepted as cred- to offer an informed judgment...
...Absence of full disclosure al letter to the editors, although it was on indefinite leave of absence...
...But M. EDMUND HUSSEY History & Theology/Medieval Church this challenge rises only when victims are CONRAD L'HEUREUX Prophets willing to go public, since no legal action • Marian Studies can be taken on the basis of anonymous WILLIAM FROST Religious Psychology \]an- in Scripture accusations...
...If that is not happening, it should I am a member...
...The urge to "fill the earth and Berlin in the late twenties and obtaining not mathematize the world but takes it subdue it" blends without too much difa Ph.D...
...My design for the stage set-a spiral of ascending platforms-seemed out of pressions of one parish's effort to respond the priests of the archdiocese, largely detheir reach, but with donated material and to the recent Maryland abortion referen- voted to the delicate and important task labor they got it built...
...The same priest...
...07430 1-201-825-7300 I dances to go with them...
...El veitchik was first and foremost a teach- Creator of nature...
...From that limited the cardinal's letter was never intended to of "0 where you go" from the Book of experience, Mr...
...Who Education...
...filed suit-and were countersued by the We believe that "the old approach of repastor for defamation...
...For years I'd -Robert Mcfee Brown Paper $6.95 CHRISTIAN'S been trying, with encouraging rejecPAULIST PRESS Tough f o,lwl Challenge, tions, to publish my meditations on the in a Tronhhd RUIhl Eeonoin Rosary, and to produce a scenario for 997 Macarthur Blvd.,Mahwah, N.J...
...better served had Mr...
...If I were the attorney cese, and in that capacity have been in- our law and in common perception...
...I'll 1) to go public, to cause criminal charges to Director of Graduate Progr;un...
...Pastoral values decay tinction is subject to change as therapeu- Booker T. Washington...
...Ruth...
...Thomas P. Doyle, former pends on the nature of the offense and the VISIONS canon lawyer at the Vatican Embassy and prognosis for the offender...
...Box 671 to permit an acceptable diagnosis...
...At this point, we are in- parent that a priest has been "sent away...
...Too cloth $15.95 every ten days reported to church or civil much can be attributed to celibacy, and authorities" is inexact and needlessly am- imprecise assertions about "the surge of Postage and h and I i n g Cnsh biguous...
...Des- While Adam II is also intrigued by the because it is divinely ordained...
...When this Michael Wyschogrod earth and subdue it" (Gen...
...Either But this impact has not been mainly triumphs over nature...
...It interested me greatly that it in"ugly" is overwhelming...
...513) 229-4321 interfere with an alleged victim's desire Thomas Ni- N];1r in...
...I therefore respectfully solicit your advice, comments, and criticism...
...a three-person commission, which drew Should priest-offenders be removed up the blueprint now much touted...
...Recent television programs of the constitutional prohibition, the promembers and 220 students in Grades 1-8...
...Among the audience was Barry 32nd Annual Summer Session Jones, "shadow secretary of state for June 28 - August 6, 1993 Wales," who "never knew nuns did this Three-week and six-week courses for credit or audit, sort of thing...
...His goal is mastery over ated together with Eve while Adam II must ston and author of The Body of Faith: God in the world which he achieves by means first be diagnosed by God as being lone- the People Israel (Harper & Row...
...However, once a priest is suspended or put on leave and sent for THEOLOGY AND PASTORAL MINISTRY extensive evaluation and perhaps treatment, it is highly unlikely that he would The University of Dayton or could engage in improper conduct while a priest...
...signed, among other aims, to break down On the other hand, if a priest-abuser proSanta Catalina is an independent school in the denial in the accused and to persuade the tects himself from such a confession, the Catholic tradition...
...as proven ability to communicate effectively with students, parents, and teachers...
...The Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament How Not to Mix Them" [November 20, Ronald Witherup, S.S...
...geous instances, jail has no value and is Requirements include a master's degree with The process of professional evaluation usually counterproductive for a person experience in administration and teaching, as well at a clinic involves intense sessions de- with this type of disorder...
...That is ed"-without interviewing the families...
...But-in large ple [meaning the families] are the enemy, part because of Berry's own news storiesand I'm on your side...
...MARY IRENE ZOTTI From the editors: It shall be done...
...WILLIAM E. LORI rived with a sound recording...
...It is not clear to me forward, I have strongly recommended that seems to me that responsible members of that such "stoning" is needed by the vic- we strive to preserve confidentiality...
...W E. B. DuBois, and Martin Luther King, Jr...
...out a policy of listening to the victim and, letter [Correspondence, November 20, Jason Berry's coverage in the National where appropriate, confronting and re- 1992] was your gracious way of letting Catholic Reporter was the first to bring moving the priest...
...I write to point up some vexing, such as Johns Hopkins in Baltimore or the It is relevant, however, that full public practical aspects of dealing with sexual St...
...Data of this kind would be enough LOWER SCHOOL DIRECTOR curred from ten to twenty years in the past, to ensure his criminal conviction...
...VINCENT BRANICK New Testament Theology Bran I lehir Despite a recent favorable ruling in an JOHN MCGRATH, SM Contemporary Theologians Catholic Por~,pectiro• Illinois court, it remains a serious and un- [•E-L -L l. Gunthleton resolved problem whether our confiden- WILLIAM ANDERSON Christian Doctrine in Early Church Peace l L r pool rY tiality can be preserved against the demands of police or prosecutors...
...and balances" is misleading...
...He looks for the ficulty into the project of subduing one's Cohen, the founder of neo-Kantianism...
...Incidents thirty years the waters even more...
...own "advice, comments, and criticism" to diocese has created and faithfully carries To the Editors: Your publication of my our own...
...Doubleday than academic interest to him...
...But his assertion Martin Luther King, Jr...
...1992...
...MICHAEL WYSCHOGROD is visiting profes(Gen...
...and cluded liturgical dance...
...Or Concerning the specifics of the Chicurrent incidents...
...And this is also true of Adam II whose women...
...Postelection polls indicate, howing prayer was my interpretation of the Commonweal readers would have been ever, that the Catholics of the archdiocese Lord's Prayer...
...I am a lay attorney who As you are no doubt aware, the concept is likely to prod the police and prosecurepresents a medium-sized Catholic dio- of sexual abuse is very broad, both under tor to take action...
...We are all sinners, and must respond publicly...
...representative of this approach...
...That is no African American Biblical Interpretation terization of the church's current re- excuse for the clergy, it simply points up Edited by CAIN HOPE EELDER Marks the emergence of a critical sponse...
...26: 15 January 1993 Commonweal made a serious effort to end the pattern of denial and resistance that was once prevaCORRESPONDENCE lent, if for no other reasons than the cost (Continued from page 2) of financial settlements and the pressure of insurance companies to force the issue...
...Victims who (understandably) do not WILLIAM ROBERTS Theology of Prayer wish their own identities disclosed often want public exposure of the accused...
...When problem of any dimensions and recompeople who are falsely accused of it the response team, after interviewing the mends treatment, treatment is provided to must be able to clear their names...
...If the policy brings dom of the press in service of the reader's made to ascertain the responsibility of the about charges of a cover-up, that may be right to know...
...From their first letter I learned that Sister The list of 1992 Commonweal Associates, Juliana and I had, in common, learned usually published in our first January issue, to make spotlights out of large coffee will appear in our February 12 issue...
...else in Walnut Creek," I asked myself, "has an illuminated chronicle of mys- 1993 Faculty and Courses tery dances from a convent in Wales...
...attitudes and, more importantly, instituLast year Cardinal Bernardin convened tional practice, have changed...
...It stone another sinner...
...More donated dum...
...being made now are based on conduct that unlawful conduct in the course of his evalis not current but is alleged to have oc- uation...
...But demonstrate the value of a free and vig- seem that the church has a positive obli- if some readers are interested in getting orous press, since without public knowl- gation to maintain confidentiality...
...gious community for publishing it in friends he has...
...them...
...church's response to claims of sexual a serious sinner, I see no justification for If the victim does decide to go public, abuse, and particularly because of the cost our publicly branding him with the scar- the diocese or other institution obviously to the church of appearing to cover up such let "A" of abuser...
...In most cases, the clinics succeed in to treatment...
...He image of God," writes Soloveitchik, "...in fellow human being or one's fellow naquickly found his audience at Yeshiva every beam of light, in every bud and blos- tion...
...Catholicism Mbokat~cq Perspective ing can be implemented...
...The diocese is unPreschool are coeducational day schools...
...Richard Friedrichs Spiritual Direction LEON LUKASZWESKI Maureen Gallagher Adult and Family Catechesis Philip Keane, S.S...
...It runs for an accused priest, I would feel comvolved with the problem of developing from the vilest exploitation of youth to sim- pelled to advise him that sexual abuse is policies to deal with such abuse, both for ple indiscretion that would have gone un- a crime, that he has a constitutional right the diocese and for other religious insti- noticed twenty years ago, a response that not to incriminate himself, and that to pretutions...
...If the professional evaluation reveals a child molestation is so heinous a crime, We treat every charge seriously...
...A consistent "no com- with the mechanical sorting done by the a local church has established a process ment" should be regarded as part of the Postal Service, I know that persons writthat has its priorities right...
...The corThis Book May Change The Way rect address is: Cardijn Associates, 210 S. You Think About Capitalism Wesley Avenue, Oak Park, IL...
...Precisely because sources it is not so extensive...
...Introduction to Pastoral Counseling Miriam Ward, R.S.M...
...types, Adam I (Gen...
...The problem I am concerned WILLIAM ROBERTS Christology .]an- in \]o,1 rn PcriOd about here is that the position on confi- flan, in Doctrine dentiality I now recommend, in those in- RICHARD WALLING Theology of Vatican 11 Man- in Renaissance Art stances in which victims do not come Special courses forward, brings frequent charges of cover- ANGELA ZUKOWSKI, MHSH Faith, Culture & Adult Learning up...
...Whether or not when criminal penalties are possible...
...writes, "is acquired by man whenever he as exegesis in the modern sense...
...How many...
...LEWIS V SALDWIN thankless work in bringing to light inci- that the priesthood is "honeycombed with "An important work...
...Prior to that The writer is secretary to Cardinal cluded six hand-colored sketches (the weekend the cardinal held meetings with Hickey, archbishop of Washington, D. C. camera had balked...
...often includes pressing the accused to able to reach an informed judgment, and Please send a resume, letter of interest and three write down the details of his improper con- the accused is not going to be amenable letters of reference to: duct...
...cans...
...The church appears to come clean...
...Juliana wrote, in a detailed report that ar- sage of the Gospel with the efforts to de- (MSGR...
...the difficulty under any regime of con- mass of black biblical scholarship...
...Instead of ular and religious impulses, never enternew ground-traditionally, Talmudists being concerned primarily with how the taining the possibility that this may be a did not acquire a secular education-by cosmos functions, Adam II wants to more difficult task than he seems willing studying philosophy at the University of know the purpose of creation...
...Adam I wants to know how the Adam 1, Soloveitchik points out, was cre- sor of religious studies at the University of Houcosmos functions...
...Cochran The premiere on the eve of Advent facts with the cardinal's office...
...In fact, great has offered his readers a snapshot but he "was all that could be wished," Sister efforts were made to "connect" the mes- has missed the whole picture...
...Catholic church...
...The and press reports on clergy child abuse have cedure smacks too much of an inquisition candidate should be dedicated to Santa Catalina's values-oriented and life-preparatory raised public awareness...
...Available at your local bookstore I sent my material for the Joyful Mysteries to the Colettines at Ty Mam Duw 30: 15 January 1993 Commonweal in Clwyd, and they welcomed it...
...The Upper School for girls is accused to disclose the identity of other evaluation is almost certain to be a failcollege-preparatory with boarding and day students in Grades 9-12...
...you brought me the Graymoor Prize may draw some critique from -1110 - essay by the Colettine Sisters in Wales the left, but the evidence pro- Arthur Jones ["The Buck Stops Here," January 17, duced to describe capitalism 19921, reporting their ecumenical outthe "bad" and capitalism the CAPITALISM reach...
...But Soloveitchik is not hostile to Adam THE LONELY MAN OF FAITH of scientific knowledge...
...In so happens, we are in the presence of a good doing, he is not rebelling against God but thing going too far rather than the unacting in accordance with his nature folding of a disposition wrong from its Joseph B. Soloveitchik has been which was created and willed by God...
...On the con- 17avton, Of 1 -€5 i(9-)180 trary, we make it explicit to the alleged victim and his family that these are coursCommonweal 15 January 1993: 29 may best counsel whether my position is unwise, or may offer a better alternative...
...if that policy is pub- former members of the Young Christian the extent of the problem of sexual abuse licly known...
...Cochran checked his responded magnificently...
...cusations should be fully investigated, Second, we think that the hierarchy has and it is our impression that Cardinal Commonweal 15 January 1993: 27 Bernardin is committed to just such ac- It provides for a response team, of which team in assessing the seriousness of the tion...
...These tactics echo cycling the offenders," and thereby faila 1986 speech by James Serritella, arch- ing to confront priest molesters, is no diocesan attorney, who told a gathering longer the policy...
...While clearly partial to the the spiritual and intellectual Adam I is an aspect of all human beings "man of faith," a synonym for Adam II, leader of modern Jewish Ortho- as they exercise their rational and esthetic Soloveitchik refuses to condemn the doxy since his arrival in this faculties...
...is that our response team scrupulously All this is invaluable to our response maintain the confidentiality of what we 28: 15 January 1993 Commonweal learn through our investigation, inter- es of action open to them, and that we in borne in fairness to the accused...
...certificate or degree (M.A...
...P.O...
...For me, Santa Catalina School even an erring priest should not be subMonterey, California and even longer...
...1 (800) Winooski Park, Colchester, Vermont 05439 U.S.A...
...Christology: An Introduction to Discipleship Sandra Schneiders, I.H.M...
...First, Berry's figure of "one priest fronting and policing "one's own...
...In fi- victim or the victim's family and anyone the accused, even though he may no longer nally granting victims a measure of jus- else offered by the victim, determines that be suitable for ministry...
...The team makes specif- situation, seeking out and approaching be reported...
...It is almost as if his reli- ROBERT SENSER, a former labor attache in the U.S...
...acknowledge that there are other per- tation, possibly from the priesthood...
...All acible...
...To a certain extent, we share his suspicion, TO MAKE THE WOUNDED The editors reply: WHOLE and we explictly acknowledged this posThe Cultural Legacy of Jason Berry has done important and often sibility in the editorial...
...Orthodoxy that combines traditional rab- ness of a starlit evening...
...The from roles that entail contact with young commission too declared the charges people...
...sent away," a priest becomes the subject can put him in jail...
...So he is cendant of a long line of outstanding Lith- cosmos, the questions he asks are of a faced with the task of harmonizing the secuanian Talmudists, Soloveitchik broke more metaphysical nature...
...Victims are outraged by the Gregory Floyd breaking through denial, at least enough continued denial and quite likely to bring Browning Associates, Inc...
...Anthony Tambasco Saint Paul To the Editors: In "Religion & Politics: Raymond Tierney, C.S.C...
...She in- feat the abortion referendum...
...He leaves is especially skilled in communicating music (some composed by the sisters and his readers with the impression that the prolife message gave advice on suitall rendered by schola and ensemble) Cardinal James Hickey's letter was meant able pastoral approaches...
...405 Sinto, Spokane, WA 99202...
...A number of gays through the seminaries" only muddy are additional...
...A passionate critique of Western Arthur Jones is an economist by capitalism that contrasts this much training, a former associate editor Dancing at Ty Mam Duw desired but ultimately flawed eco- and European bureau chief of nomic system with recent social FORBES magazine, and is presently Walnut Creek, Calif...
...The mathemat- I. Here and there he intimates that the drive Joseph B. Soloveitchik ical physicist is the most characteristic to gain mastery over nature can go too far Doubleday, $15, 112 pp...
...The bish- brings the charge of "cover-up," a charge prompted by your insightful and balanced op also requires that the priest submit to that makes us cringe because it is so hurteditorial, "Priests & Sex" [November 20, an evaluation at a sexual disorder clinic ful to the church...
...Of course, the dis- tradition of moral, political, and theological reflection bequeathed by Malcolm X, against lawsuits...
...Edward J. Mahoney, Ph.D., Director Priesthood Graduate Theology and Pastoral Ministry Saint Michael's College DESIRE PRIESTHOOD...
...Under55...
...old, as in the Porter case in Boston...
...need to be taken into account...
...rying out a divine mandate, is deeply Over the years, he has published a small secular, uninterested in ultimate questions REVIEWERS number of essays and transcripts of some that cannot be asked or answered in sci- ROBERT WILKEN, a professor in the reliof his lectures have also appeared...
...The "house" was overfull (140 people, 120 seats), "so 20 or so of the men (this is Wales where they SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE love old-fashioned manners) stood at the Graduate Theology and Pastoral Ministry back...
...Many claims serve this right he should not admit to any Our diocese has a sexual abuse policy...
...cause harm to the reputation of the accused...
...Solo- tion whenever he is overpowered by the study...
...vises the bishop...
...Should all offenders against the Northbrook pastor "unfound- be removed from the priesthood...
...Absolutely...
...Dignity," he should be read more as a midrash than ticular is immeasurable...
...If a Oak Park, Ill...
...Frankly, the CONRAD L'HEUREUX Pastoral Counseling ]rauhi (r[1n'ale5 latter alternative is so difficult that it is now I:urth I e cJxcait;e rare...
...tantamount to proof...
...Of course no system is of order superiors in River Forest: "When perfect, especially one as decentralized as one of these situations develops, those peo- the U.S...
...is the most substantial piece of writing out the book...
...While the This is the work of a deeply religious binic scholarship with respect for the power Adam I achieves bestows on him personality educated in rabbinic thinking achievements of the modern world...
...But in the more charges, I recognize that my position, we have been challenged not to publicly usual case, where no victim wants to come though strongly felt, may be wrong...
...Can you help...
...These courses are recognized by QECO) Thanks for your kindly beams on our Richard Fragomeni The Sacraments of Initiation distant corners...
...views, evaluation, and the treatment proc- no way wish to hinder them from pursu- In view of the constant criticism of the ess...
...Director, Mater Dei, E. (802) 654-2579...
...The Spirituality of the Fourth Gospel Washington, D.C...
...Man finds redemp- way, this is a work that deserves careful by means of the written word...
...editor-at- large for the To the Editors: Oh how far doth Com"(Jones') thesis that capital- NATIONAL CATHOLIC monweal throw its beams...
...Efforts must then be rights of the accused...
...Adam I and there is a danger that Adam I will deis carrying out the command to "fill the velop a demonic dimension...
...60302...
...But, as difficult dations to the bishop...
...program, which focuses on the development of grounded in fact, these rumors begin to Moreover, other than in the most outraintellectual growth and the encouragement of moral and spiritual awareness...
...Foreign Service, writes and speaks book form...
...Even though the priest may have been ing any of these options...
...bishops of the crisis: "Bernardin's policy tween pedophilia and ephebophilia as ..captures in a single volume the rich is window dressing to set up a defense merely "academic...
...material (old drapes) provided costumes litical stand was taken without connecting Sample homilies were offered...
...tice, it benefits no one to deny it to the the charge appears to be credible, it so ad- A separate problem rises once it is apaccused...
...NAME WITHHELD The editors reply: Our attorney-correspondent is right to assume that we place great value on free- continued) response...
...For that rea- tion to make a public disclosure or to reson, we invite readers to append their spond to questions from the media...
...tims nor the treatable offender, who, as The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr...
...It is clear that ranged from Praetorius to a blues setting to supplant the homily...
...variably confronted with denial by the Many victims, alleged victims, activist accused priest-whether he is, in fact, to- groups, the media, and others insist on a Rights of the accused tally innocent or a serious abuser...
...Whatever one thinks The Director is responsible for 25 faculty of rumors...
...But reducing the conditions to good people who have been hurt...
...gious studies department at the University of Lonely Man of Faith first appeared in 1965 Curiously enough, Soloveitchik em- Virginia, is author of The Land Called Holy as an article in the journal Tradition and phasizes the theme of loneliness through- (Yale University Press...
...We would be eager to offer ic, pragmatic judgments and recommen- other identified possible victims to whom space for that purpose...
...ings and recommendations...
...when bishops bunker in behind lawyers, tic experience grows in treating such -LEWIS V. BALDWIN paper $10.9 who try to humiliate, frustrate, or thwart conditions...
...The Synoptic Gospels 1992], Clark E. Cochran gives his imAlso Master's Degrees in: Clinical Psychology, Education, Administration, Teaching English as a Second Language CLASSIFIED For further information, call or write: Rev...
...Cochran proceeds to lec- supplant the homily...
...633-2252, Ext...
...is a good thing spoiled REPORTER...
...The habit of subduing is not a good University, the institution of American som, in the morning breeze and the still- one to get into...
...disclosure by us where there has been abuse abuse by priests...
...passed...
...Sexual Abuse of Children (Doubleday...
...human drive to gain mastery over nature country in the mid-1930s...
...puts a heavy burden of apparent "cover- want their church to act properly, but who There could be a compelling reason for up" on the bishop and the institutional also believe in the right to know and who disclosure if it were the only or best means church, a burden that I think must be regularly battle real cover-up strategiesof preventing further abuse by the accused...
...We do not see Human Fulfillment and Social justice why Berry sees the clinical distinction be- in African-American Thought coauthor of a 1985 report that warned the ROBERT MICHAEL FRAN\iKJ.L...
...He does to concede...
...That journalists have a right to ask mation of new YCW or YCS groups, they However long it may have taken-and, questions-whether in defense of the pub- will have a problem getting in touch with even now, however tentative a solution has lic interest or in pursuit of headlines-does us-the Zip Code on the address you been found-our correspondent shows not mean that those questioned are com- printed was incorrect...
...and if the victim or his parents Workers and Young Christian Students by the clergy into public view...
...In re- full revelation of the evaluation, identifiAddress withheld sponse to our recommendation, the bishop cation of the victims, and the actions taken To the Editors: This is not a convention- promptly suspends the priest or puts him by the bishop...
...I should make clear that, as a matter of policy, the diocese does not discourage or For information contact...
...a priest who and backdrops, and the accompanying it with the faith of the church...
...The entific categories...
...Adam II is inherenter and master lecturer whose message ly religious while Adam I, though carcould not be separated from his presence...
...inception...
...vibrant with stories, names, humor, music, and all the richness of the into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Berry concedes that celibacy is not the Southern black church and community...
...The Lower School and victims or possible victims...
...That is a single phenomenon helps neither the vic- THERE IS A BALM IN GILEAD the lesson of the Chicago archdiocese...
...teachings of religious leaders...
...the dignity that results from mastery over and modem philosophy...
...1) and Adam It loneliness is rooted in his very being...
...1:28...
...It is a topic clearly of more MADELINE MARGET, a regular CommonSoloveitchik has published...
...Student Family Housing...
...Adam II is a deeper person than Adam I. Soloveitchik clearly identifies with Adam It...
...the results choose to keep the matter private, it would know about the Cardijn Newsletter...
...Many pro- ethical thought turns...
...with concentrations in Pastoral Reading their script as I heard the re- Ministry and Spirituality, Theology, Scripture, Religious cording, I laughed happy tears...
...For a Talmudist, Advanced in age (he was born in 1903) nature, Adam II seeks redemption, which Soloveitchik is remarkably biblical, even and ailing, Soloveitchik's impact on Soloveitchik understands in less social and if his interpretation of the Adam I and II American Judaism and Orthodoxy in par- more ontological terms...
...JASON BERRY Berry knows, has often been a victim of LEWIS V BALLDWIN The writer is the author of Lead Us Not abuse himself...
...GAYRAUD S. WILMORE paper $16.95 However, we are not persuaded of the fessionals prefer not to take notice of unbroader conclusions he draws about the acceptable behavior by their colleagues, STONY THE ROAD WE TROD scope of the problem nor of his charac- including sexual misconduct...
...If the priest does have a 1-Irttrutnt Rig Lit,: the World card problem, he will either be compelled to JOSEPH KOZAR, SM John Ihr (bomb resign or will be placed in a situation KENNETH WEARE Approaches to Morality where contact with potential victims is lim- Tercsira \\-cind ited, and close supervision and monitor- SANDRA YOCUM MIZE U.S...
...spectives besides that of journalism that Does the church also have an obligaMany thanks, but...
...By the actions of the bishop, the Summer 1993 June 21 - July 30 word is out in the priest's own diocese, and no longer would he just be sent off to • Graduate Courses - Lecture Series another diocese...
...Community is therefore natural to Adam IN GOD'S (SPLIT) IMAGE I while loneliness is Adam II's point of departure...
...Commonweal 15 January 1993: 31...
...Denial continues...
...Cochran complains that a po- of preaching on that particular weekend...
...a more complicated question, and deLIBERATING Said the Rev...

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