`Ex corde ecclesiae' and its ordinances: A discussion:
Pampusch, Anita M. & Hunt, John F. & Saunders, Paul C. & Komonchak, Joseph A. & Curran, Charles E.
world warned the Vatican that a single document could not...
...7 even anticipating disputes...
...They thought whether there can in principle be a "Catholic university" rethey could convince the bishops not to require a mandate based duces finally to the question of whether that underlying faith on the provision in Ex corde ecclesiae to respect local tradi- in the Logos made flesh is reasonable...
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...canonically established: estab- the autonomy of the academic institution...
...The proposed ordinances are circulating among the leges and universities...
...Un- Anita M. Pampusch is president of the College of Saint fortunately, the tone of Ex corde ecclesiae, particularly in sec- Catherine, Saint Paul, Minnesota...
...For those who believe tions, customs, and laws...
...It is important to note that divine revelation and a Spiritguided magisterium do not solve the problem articulated in the two maxims and addressed in the practical conclusion...
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...It urges the entire ecclesupport and a measure of autonomy in order to survive...
...Two consequences are clear...
...These presidents also who believe it is reasonable, something like a university will feel the need to protect their institutional survival...
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...These sug- intended them to be Catholic are not now termine who will prevail in disputes begestions implicitly recognize, but perhaps either directly or indirectly subject to hi- tween the bishop and your institution or do not give sufficient weight to, the real- erarchical control and, although they are its faculty or students...
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...oration and dialogue between church officials and officers Though Ex corde ecclesiae and the proposed ordinances de- of higher education that could make our work more effecsire closer collaboration between bishops and colleges, I would tive...
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...loud and too long...
...Larger and more national institutions will be in a better po- I believe it is most important to continue to make the case sition to resist any outside interference, but smaller institu- that academic freedom in Catholic higher education ultitions which are more dependent on the local church and the mately serves the good of the whole church, but this argulocal bishop will be much more vulnerable...
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...place of the Catholic university in the n the spring of 1993, Georgetown Ex corde ecclesiae poses several dif- church (Joseph Komonchak of The CathUniversity sponsored a sympo- ficulties in the areas of governance struc- olic University), the Catholic identity of sium at which a number of dis- tures, and standards of conduct for those the Catholic university (Michael Buckley tinguished American scholars American universities and colleges (which of Boston College), canon law (James and well-credentialed lawyers are included in the use of the term uni- Provost of The Catholic University), took a close look at Ex corde ecclesiae, versity) that wish to be "officially" Cath- American civil law (Philip Burling and Pope John Paul II's apostolic constitu- olic (assuming that is what is meant by Gregory Moffatt, civil lawyers) and "intion on Catholic higher education...
...the practical conclusion requires structures and pro- or the prohibition of inquiry...
...And therein lies the challenge...
...sored institutions to spell out explicitly the limitations on academic freedom at that particular institution...
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...or, in The Georgetown conference could Sapientia christiana, which governs sev- the words of the court in the Curran case, not address the most important question, eral of the faculties (the "pontifical" fac- to try "to have it both ways...
...It should be required reading for sion of the Catholic college or university stitution's own conduct (for example, in those with responsibilities for responding (section 1) are a cogent and direct reartic- regard to the recognition of student orto the proposed ordinances and for the ulation of the best traditions of Catholic ganizations and in granting honorary deoverall questions raised by Ex corde ec- higher education...
...but in later writings, after more prevent or to resolve all problems-to think so is the temptaexperience of Catholic authority, he used it to refer also to tion indulged by more than a few current definitions of instifreedom in theological inquiry...
...3 to 10) Amerasian...
...stance and alternative insights to the pre- ticipants that the problems will go away members who teach theology have and sentations...
...I cannot fight under the lash, as the Persian ask that the issues be posed in their full concreteness: that the slaves...
...versity") will depend on the answers to two questions...
...It is true they have Ex corde ecclesiae and we are urged to apply the norms "as become products of their culture even as they have tried to far as possible...
...Catholic requires that institutional governance be department and deny him the right to scholars and administrators along with secentrusted solely to an institution's board teach anything that smacked of theology ular and canon lawyers to go beyond the of trustees...
...2) How will Ex corde Ex corde ecclesiae has many fine things that echo Newman's ecclesiae and the proposed ordinances support and strengthen first principle and its validation of the notion of a Catholic uni- our work...
...The thriving community school plans to expand its enrollment to more than twice its present size...
...from the NCCB, which are included in models that are "Catholic," but not offiGeorgetown University Prcss...
...The continuity of life is affirmed when the of African-American lives as presented by fifty black photo- child sees a photo of her mother with herself as an infant in her journalists...
...13.95 for her to get top grades for college and her desire for some How can a Jewish boy accept a carved angel, a graven image, fun in her senior year of high school, Ellen tries to ignore the from an old black woodcarver without disobeying God...
...It is an omen for the future No one who cares about the future of the U.S...
...Its promul- tellectual" history (Jaroslav Pelikan of corde ecclesiae establishes criteria for gation compels, at least in the United Yale...
...First, a Catholic university has been considered a conthe ordinances will at least cast a long and dark shadow over tradiction-in-terms...
...Orchard Books, New York, 1992...
...These books were chosen because they tures devoid of the atrocities of war...
...Greenwillow Books, New battered hat as a memento...
...While this may seem to offer some flexibilcritique it...
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...Catholic educators from around the on the apostolic constitution Ex corde ecclesiae (August 1990), 14: 19 November 1993 Commonweal require those who teach theology in Catholic colleges and uni- on the committee with them...
...Appreciation of these tensions and Simply stated, the model described in crimination based on religion (unless, as their origins is essential to understanding the 1983 Code of Canon Law as ampli- is plausibly the case with theology, relithe nuances of the dialogue as well as Ex fied in Ex corde ecclesiae requires that gion is a bona fide occupational qualificorde ecclesiae and its implications...
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...Thus, at the present time they dare not cry wolf too op to take away the mandate of a particular theologian...
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...ghosts, about the one-room schoolhouse with his Aunt Daisy Tara is at first ignorant of what has happened when a boy is as teacher, about the flood that left cows in the treetops, about shot down in the streets, but after her family flees their home the time Mary McLeod Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt came to and ends up in a camp in Iran, her eyes are opened about the visit...
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...more detailed "ordinances" regarding Catholic higher education...
...we provide coun- for implementation are not clear...
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...Vivid, sensitive images interweave Rising Voices: Writings of Young Native Americans, selected Spanish words with the English...
...Illustrated by Yoshi...
...Rather, ordinance 4 implies a thorities in the work of Catholic colleges and universities in lack of trust in what we are doing...
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...Despite my personal Question 4: How will accrediting associations and the position, my realistic assessment concludes that the bishops American Association of University Professors (AAUP), will pass the ordinances and usher in a very critical time for which monitors academic freedom, respond...
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...it is to be resolved accordappended to these ordinances [the categories are: ecclesias- ing to procedures that respect the rights of persons in the church, tical faculties/universities...
...When his New York, 1992...
...3) What practical plan will be needed for the exversity...
...the practical con- sides...
...Is this too high a ity that given the hierarchical governance juridical persons under secular law, they price to pay to enjoy "official" Catholic structure of the Roman Catholic church, are not under canon law and thus not sub- status...
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...that we can move ahead with a clearer understanding of Such collaboration and discussion about expectations and re- how bishops and presidents will work together, through our colspective roles would be welcomed by most college and uni- leges and universities, to address major societal and ecclesial versity presidents...
...The George- nificant ways, how can it in any sense be if not unlikely, that American society town symposium materials do not fully ad- Catholic...
...But broken promises abound and Harriet When Hoang's family came to America from Vietnam, he endures many hardships at the hands of her new owners and brought a Gia Truyen, a lucky teapot from his Grandmother, and more struggles when she flees...
...experience under a addition to procrastination): to espouse Ex than purely as a matter of theory...
...Some scholars (e.g., synthesizing, which is (or at least was) also denoted by the word Douglas Laycock, Kenneth Whitehead) maintain that religious "university...
...Their accounts are full of the grim reto be together as a family and help one another...
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...Not incidentally, these schools have produced an upwardly mobile Catholic population that has entered the mainstream of American Charles E. Curran life...
...The same is true Most Catholic institutions are small, fewer than 5,000 stuof their faculties...
...it articulates consequences of conforming American the requisite "identity" and "mission" for universities and colleges now considTHE FUTURES such institutions of higher education...
...12 and up) al backgrounds in a way that affirms and celebrates the full range of diversity found in America and the world...
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...The ordinances also propose calling for greater hierarchical control over theologians, including a rather vague process for settling disputes on such matters and the requirements of the mandate and an oath of fidelity, together others in accord with church law and procedures...
...was that Ex corde ecclesiae restricted itself to declaring broad norms and delegated the regional bishops' conferences to sculpt OR A CHURCH...
...that the attempt to draft ordinances appropriate to a diverse set "Eventually," Newman trusted, such a conflict will "turn of institutions was difficult, if not impossible...
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...Catholic islation to the termination at the behest documents...
...Harriet's story opens with Hoang Breaks the Lucky Teapot, by Rosemary Breckler...
...the general norms of the Apostolic Constitution Er corde eec•le- 6. Catholic professors of theological disciplines are to be advised siue (part 2), both of which in their entirety are part of the uni- by academic officials of the church's expectation that they versal law of the church...
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...Even the large universities have become more dents...
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...The Catholic University of America...
...Catholic church can ignore the question of the the consultors opposed them (and in any case were not permitted religious identity of America's Catholic col- to vote...
...The document delegates to both canon and secular law) to decline national episcopal conferences the adop- to conform to Ex corde ecclesiae, its CATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES IN CHURCH tion of particular rules, subject to Vatican promulgation also invites consideration AND SOCIETY scrutiny, appropriate in light of local of the nature, feasibility, and desirabiliA Dialogue on Ex corde ecclesiae circumstances (the proposed ordinances ty of developing university and college Edited bF' John P. Langan, S.J...
...However, tion of the centering point around which the universitas rerum the ordinances show that the leaders of Catholic higher educa- finds its intelligible, synthesizing unity...
...7. If a dispute arises between the competent ecclesiastical au2. Catholic colleges and universities are to identify themselves thority and a Catholic college or university, or individuals or as belonging to one of the descriptive categories on the list groups within such institutions...
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...out the consultations prior to Ex corde ecclesiae (see Common- Now things have changed...
...see how the closer scrutiny of the bishops and the greater ac- At its worst, the enactment of this draft of the proposed countability called for on the part of the schools will serve "to ordinances could sanction the intervention of diocesan ausupport and assist" our work...
...13.95 Dear Dr...
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...Their student bodies are not homoge- ficiency and independence in our society...
...1. Catholic colleges and universities are those which, through normally the diocesan bishop or his delegate...
...The required reading list should that deal with governance structure and that the institution cede to local episcoalso include Sister Alice Gallin's Amer- conduct (section 2) that are the source pal authorities control over its compliance ican Catholic Higher Education: Essential of the difficulty...
...Therein ties operate is not shared in most other countries of the world: lies the difficulty...
...episcopate as well as college and university presidents...
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...In addition, we are deeply committed to the social most U.S...
...Scribners, New York, 1992...
...Again, no one Catholic higher education...
...Orchard Books, New York, 1992...
...Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Elijah's Angel: A Story for Chanukah and Christmas, by 1992...
...the hierarchical church on the other, and pendence to the local bishop so that he Nevertheless, Ex corde ecclesiae, with the university's evident attempt to have may decide, for example, who may be substantial support in the Roman Catholic it "both ways...
...8 to 14) his own vivid imagination...
...Hardcover, $22.50, paperback, $13.95 Masai and I, by Virginia Kroll...
...The ordinances are ostensibly meant to apply like...
...Question 1: Do the ordinances violate the principles of aca- Question 3: Will the United States bishops enforce such demic freedom...
...Some of them suggest ty was free to decide whether to be an ple, divorced Catholics remarried outways in which its harsher restrictions on American university or an arm of the side the church...
...storytellers, both girls are touched by their courage and loyal(12 and up) ty...
...1985 draft of a pontifical document on Catholic higher educa- For over twenty-five years the Vatican, the U.S...
...With spondence and friendship that continued until Dr...
...As grown women, many years later, they share their ceremony, and other topics...
...When a choice had to be hired to teach "theology" (a discipline extradition, clearly demands departure from made whether academic freedom in the- tended by the hierarchy in the Curran case the American model...
...Though war alities and helplessness of life in modern Haiti...
...1) How well does ly, not without patient effort, not without collaboration, and the model of the Catholic research university, which underlies not without freedom: "Truth is wrought out by many minds, the ordinances, apply to the College of Saint Catherine and most working together freely...
...After Clare passes a dangerous initiation test and becomes a full-fledged member of the gang, she discovers her own inner strength and goes on to another life when her stepfather moves away, and she re-establishes a good relationship with her mother...
...George...
...How he brings Good Magic Eyes, by Wendy Ewald (from stories told by Alicia and Maria Fortune back makes a story as warm and comforting as a cup Vasquez...
...University of Nevada Ellen V. LiBretto, Young Adult Consultant, Queens Press, Reno, 1992...
...greatly shaped in the years to come by the fate comments and recommendations are to be returned by December of a few hundred words of "ordinances on Catholic higher ed- 31, 1993...
...the hierarchy is empowered to define all ject to church law...
...3 to 7) provide the opportunity to experience the day-to-day life of a girl caught in the bonds of slavery...
...Illustrated by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson...
...The subtle color drawings beautifully capture the spir- new friends Luzolo, Siamu, Matondo, and Kiese to a party...
...It rested on two "car- that the need for intellectual, moral, and religious integrity be dinal maxims" and a "practical conclusion" that followed from urged on both parties, that respect for legitimate rights be exthem...
...the Roman Catholic church...
...tarian, with probable connotations of hierarchical censorship...
...The language of canon law and the tone the real nature of U.S...
...15.95 What kind of houses do children around the world live in...
...272 pp...
...Who can be adopted by most U.S...
...Interviews with the children are interspersed with facts and statistics that reveal the extent of homelessness in America...
...The Supreme Court in the Tilton case (1971) ruled repudiates all that the world stands for, so that, as in Tertullian's five to four that Catholic colleges could receive such funding famous expostulation, the church should have nothing to do precisely because, among other things, they accepted academic with the academy...
...ology should be subordinated to a deci- to include philosophy, ethics, and any All the Georgetown participants seem sion of the pope, thus precluding the other subject taught from a religious or to assume that Ex corde ecclesiae will be institution's having it "both ways," the theological perspective...
...The fear of losing such funding, that is, the all-comprehensive, all-creative, all-redemptive with its threat to their very existence, strongly influenced Logos of God, the light that enlightens everyone who comes Catholic colleges to accept academic freedom in the late into the world, has become flesh in Jesus of Nazareth...
...The 1967 which already requires theology professors to have a manLand 0' Lakes Statement by leaders of Catholic higher edu- date from the bishop...
...Box 4327, Hamden, CT 06514, 1992...
...5 to 8) Twenty-one poems celebrate the simple joys of everyday life in a Latino neighborhood...
...The award-winning author captures well the bewilderment, hurt, and anger felt by these tragic victims of the British African slave trade which flourished until early in the nineteenth century...
...sial community to support and assist them, to guard their rights Generally speaking, we receive no financial support from the and freedom in civil society, and even to offer them economic church...
...LEARNING TO LIVE Rather than live at home, where she was abused by her stepfather, she chooses as her family a group of street kids, who, like TOGETHER herself, have life stories they prefer to keep secret...
...Catholic universities appear to 'Ex corde ecclesiae' have convinced Roman officials that direct intervention by local and its ordinances bishops or other church authorities into academic affairs was incompatible with academic freedom and with the educators' IS THIS ANY WAY TO own best judgment on how to run these institutions...
...The first which must be left to future generations ulties) of The Catholic University of choice is an irrevocable one given the re- of scholars: Will Ex corde ecclesiae sucAmerica as well as the omission of any quirement for the integration of hierarchical ceed in strengthening and improving reference to the significance of that leg- control into the institution's governing the Catholic identity of U.S...
...But it of this quiet study of love and loss...
...These ordinances must be ecclesiastical authority...
...Idea of a University the metaphor appears in his defense of Mere institutions and structures, of course, are not going to freedom of scientific inquiry...
...Many Catholic educators, beset by all the familiar prob- which, after broad discussion, will be voted on at lems of institutional survival, may have too-long neglected this the November 1994 meeting of the National difficult task...
...9 to 12) nature of oppression...
...Along with dozens of other slaves they are herded on a ship off the southwest coast of Africa and taken to Jamaica where they are sold to neighboring plantation owners-never to see each other again...
...3 to 6) ticing his hated violin...
...Twenty-nine of them are portray people of different ethnic, racial, religious, and cultur- reproduced here in full color...
...But both it and the "ordinances" drafted in order to im- tensive dialogue between institutions and bishops that is required plement it in the United States give insufficient expression to by the proposed ordinances...
...They were founded by religious congregations of diverse in their faculties, students, and programs...
...10 and up) urban London with a rock star is drastically different from the life the twins had known, and it becomes a challenge for them Twelve Days in August, by Liza Ketchum Murrow...
...established by a religious community...
...he was also the one who to dusk is tempered by the affection and admiration each famhelped Gary build self-confidence around girls...
...Catholic seen as a "full-fledged American uni- soon be called upon to answer these quescolleges and universities have attempted versity" on the one hand and as a part of tions: Do you wish to cede your indeto conform to, at least since the late 1960s...
...For those posed ordinances-but only up to a point...
...10 to 12) Sami and the Time of the Troubles, by Florence Parry Heide and Taste of Salt, by Frances Temple...
...One morning, while she is swim- Zindel moves to Staten Island with his eccentric family is the ming, a canoe filled with "fat people" arrives...
...The first maxim grounds the possibility of a Catholic siders), the one that Newman expressed: "that the church has university...
...14 ing-and arguing-with her affectionate parents, serenely at one The year Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright Paul with her beautiful surroundings...
...12 and up) Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary, by Walter Dean Myers...
...Bell...
...institutional au- gical and sacramental opportunities under the moderation of thorities and the diocesan bishop...
...Bay Press, 115 West Denny Way, Seattle, WA 98119,1992...
...Scholastic, Inc., New York, 1992...
...bishops may be on the brink of forc- the Vatican has always been somewhat suspect of and opposed ing a precipitous resolution...
...This Quaker family's life changes with the Civil War when their Underground Railroad work be- Your Dad Was Just Like You, by Dolores Johnson...
...14.95 Co., New York, 1992...
...the problem stated in the second maxim and to the institution- As a philosopher, I am drawn to the ideal of a Catholic real exigencies of the patience and freedom needed to resolve it search university with well-prepared theologians and scholars "eventually...
...Joy Street/Little, Brown & Co., New York, Joel is the baby from overseas adopted by Jean and George...
...These proposed ordinances, based weal, January 27, 1989...
...York, 1992...
...Each new round of docuCHARLES E. CURRAN 14 ments always brought the local bishop back onto the campus in some sort of canonical role...
...Illustrated by Jim Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear, Lensey Namioka...
...12 and up) rah in return...
...terms of the doctrinal purity of theology courses (which seems The contrast between the lofty descriptions of our role and to be the burden of Ex corde ecclesiae and the proposed ordi- the tone of the norms and ordinances is striking...
...imply it...
...But able discussion at our meeting) before we can act together to without it, college administrators are left with the impression promote the appropriate teaching...
...A rock musi- nine poets from such diverse lands as Bangladesh, Indonesia, cian, he had left home before they were born, and so they are and Israel here reflect the differences and similarities of all our meeting him and their half sister for the first time...
...Until now leaders of these Catholic inAt least in the United States, however, there is considerable stitutions have insisted that academic freedom and institutional question whether the remedies emerging from the Vatican and autonomy are essential aspects of any college or university, the episcopacy will support or undermine the efforts of local including Catholic institutions...
...If this is so, then the reference they have resisted all attempts to restrict academic freedom and to Jesus Christ is not particularizing, but rather the identificato impose a mandate from bishops on theologians...
...D cedures that respect the need to show patience and to avoid haste The Rev...
...Scholastic, Inc., New York, 1993...
...The story is told as seen through the eyes of (11 and up) Norman Kokeok, a seven-year-old Eskimo boy, whose days are filled with the security of traditional values and the joy of being Front Porch Stories, by Eleanora E. Tate...
...implemendisclosed in Jesus Christ that it is necessary to repeat that one tation of Ex corde ecclesiae recently drew together truth cannot contradict the other...
...Also, self, and the book ends with a happy reconciliation of father Blaze's mother died of cancer, and Joselle's mother has run off and son...
...that the bishops voted unanimously in favor of the ordinances...
...The second choice involves higher education or only in destroying of the Vatican of one of its distinguished many difficult problems, not the least of it...
...according to their own prop- the local bishop...
...At their best, Ex corde ecclesiae and faculty governance systems as well as state, federal, and re- a revised set of ordinances could usher in an era of collabgional accrediting bodies...
...The lovely etchings with aquatints display warm Harcourt Brace & Co., New York, 1992...
...regular university hiring processes as the form of delegation Question 2: Will the bishops pass such ordinances...
...In The prevent or to resolve such cases...
...No one knows for sure...
...If reason were of all Catholic colleges and universities in the world are to be all-comprehensive and if faith were sight or, to be more con- found in the United States...
...Harcourt Brace & Co., New York, York, 1992...
...A fine coming-of-age story in which a boy and Michael Patrick Hearn, Author, Critic, Teacher, Simmons his father, despite their differences, show love for each other...
...Catholic colleges and universities...
...and the responsilished by a diocese...
...Photographs by Robert Benson...
...When Jason puts the oversized hat York, 1993...
...3 to 6) African-Americans covers a broad spectrum...
...We would add to the list plementing rules-the proposed ordi- governing documents...
...Until that is done, for all the good will in the world, for clusion is that "we must be patient with such appearances, and all the effort visible in these ordinances to reach effective comnot be hasty to pronounce them to be really of a more formidable promises, an impression will remain (not confined to outcharacter...
...Greenwillow Books, New York, 1993...
...cedures of the documents of the National Conference of 3. Periodically, and at least every ten years, each Catholic col- Bishops On Due Process (1972) in administrative matters lege or university is to undertake an internal review of the and Docrr•inaI Rc•cporrsibiliries ( 1989) in matters of differcongruence of its research program...
...But that did not remove the issue, rooted in the Code of Canon Law, of requiring episcopal mandates for the theology INTRODUCTION 14 faculty and oversight in other areas...
...13.95 Michael J. Rosen...
...naries, for example) from employment dislogue...
...She tells her story of hardships and century scroll...
...Although frightened by the prejudice experienced by the man, but we'll retain our beauty, and still be Indians...
...Holiday and everyone else in the family to learn to live together amica- House, New York, 1993...
...Do you wish hierarchy might continue and the ten- under Catholic auspices by sponsors who to cede to the hierarchy the right to desions between them be abated...
...United States has educated more religiously literate lay Cath- THE EDITORS olics than at any other time in the church's history...
...Fowler...
...bility of church authorities to assist in the preservation of the and established by other ecclesiastical or lay initiatives] and institution's Catholic identity...
...Proposed Ordinances 5. The mandate granted to those who teach theology in Catholic colleges and universities should be understood as T he ordinances on Catholic higher education for recognition by the competent ecclesiastical authority of a the dioceses of the United States are complementary to and in Catholic professor's suitability to teach theological disciharmony with canons 807-814 of the Code of Canon lint and plines...
...Half Lord, since we walk by faith and not by sight...
...Gradually, he learns secrets about Services, The New York Public Library, New York his grandmother, who bore a love child, his own mother...
...Based on a true story...
...Equally qualified commentators at "universities" that are or wish to be "in" States, consideration of the problems and the symposium contributed both sub24: 19 November 1993 Commonweal For example, I subscribe to the sentiments of proposed or- tion 2, the general norms, is prescriptive and judgmental...
...Some bishops and inwhatever kind, lay or clerical, external to the academic com- stitutions might work out an acceptable approach utilizing the munity itself...
...Illustrated by Keiko is indeed all...
...U.S...
...Finally, it is Uncle ily member has for the others-even Shelan, who is too small Rob who helps Gary to trust again and live a full life, confident to carry her own sack but whose words tell this story of courage in his own identity...
...After her mother's death, twelve-year-old Bryn tries to make a Illustrated with photographs...
...His grandfather, Against the Storm, by Gaye Hicyilmaz...
...We do not want to be cast in an antagonistic needs...
...with the refusal to admit any public theological dissent from These ordinances raise six significant questions which bear hierarchical teaching...
...Catholic identity...
...during the last ten years has employed Canon 812 hired and who is dismissed from a college faculty...
...It is those portions grees) be consistent with its Catholicism, clesiae...
...unlike those institutions that need church support to assert and Ex corde ecclesiae points out the indispensable role of maintain their independence from the state, ours require state Catholic colleges and universities...
...on any of its faculties, even those that were Georgetown dialogue in order to inform The Vatican was fully informed of the not "pontifical...
...Question 5: How will the ordinances affect state and fed- For the others, "Catholic" means interactive, comprehensive, eral funding for Catholic higher education...
...From the homeless to the affluent, from women sur- mother's arms...
...Photographs by Wendy Ewald and children of Raquira, of tea...
...And it adds a layer of scruti- ways that would weaken the latter and diminish the effecny and accountability sure to complicate our relationships with tiveness of their work...
...or revised versions) at their November 1994 meeting and the The unparalleled system of Catholic higher education in the ordinances will he sent to Rome for approval...
...It's also the year Zindel discovers his writing talent as her paradise forever...
...Atheneum, New York, 1993.$14.95 ed here were published during 1992 and 1993...
...in appropriate collaboration with the adCarde ec•cleciae...
...It was Uncle Byard...
...If this 1960s...
...The dinance 4, but I am not clear what they direct me (or my bish- proposed ordinances of the U.S...
...Ecclesiastical authorities outside the aca- ordinances...
...For the critics "Catholic" means seccommunity...
...and ences in doctrine...
...To that end, a two-way (or three-way) • that together we can achieve a common understanding of dialogue is essential...
...Forgiveness finds a place in this sad, touch1992...
...institutions of higher learning should be able to place limits The large "c" in "Catholic," of course, adds an identifying on academic freedom and still obtain state and federal fund- center of integration or synthesis-the person of Jesus Christ...
...14 and up) children in marching for peace...
...Orchard Books, mer nights are hot and the mosquitoes are biting, twelve-yearCommonweal 19 November 1993: 17 Advertisement old Margie Carsons's daddy spins out his stories of growing As a personal account of a young girl's life in Iraq, this novel up in Nutbrush, Missouri-wonderful tales about slavery, will help older children understand the suffering of the Kurds...
...Hyperion, New York, 1992...
...The context in which American colleges and universi- to all of us irrespective of institutional type or origin...
...14 on, he remembers all the good times he and his grandfather Aimee's father is a missionary in Zaire, and the girl invites her shared...
...One hundred and enters their lives and that of their white mother...
...Four Winds, New Soul Daddy, by Jacqueline Roy...
...Others (e.g., Dana Davis) argue that even before the or- Whether this makes the adjective particular or sectarian (and dinances Catholic institutions should not have been receiving therefore in tension with, if not contradiction of, the noun "unigovernment funding...
...Joseph A. Komonchak is professor of theology at in judgment...
...whereas Catholic grammar schools and high schools The other linked question is the question of faith: whether, could not receive funding...
...Having shed their immigrant defensiveness, adopted U.S...
...College, Boston, Massachusetts (12 and up) Marjorie Lewis, Author, Critic, School Library Media Specialist, Heathcote Schools, Scarsdale, New York Child of the Holy Ghost, by Robert Laxalt...
...The latter nances) does not do justice to our missions...
...PROPOSED ORDINANCES 15 In the United States, a committee of the National Conference JOSEPH A. KOMONCHAK 22 of Catholic Bishops (Cardinal James Hickey, Archbishops Oscar Lipscomb, Adam Maida, and Francis Schulte, and Bishops . ANITA M. PAMPUSCH 23 James Malone, James Griffin, and John Leibrecht, the chairman) has drafted the set of ordinances (see p. 15) that will govJOHN F. HUNT & ern the relations between local ordinaries and schools of higher PAUL C. SAUNDERS 24 education in their dioceses...
...The court noted the ten- and assist the boards of trustees of U.S...
...Macmillan, New York, 1992.$14.95 Last year, when Rachel visited her older cousin Amy-Claire, they had a wonderful time together, but this year Amy-Claire only wants to play house with Jessie, Rachel's two-year-old sister...
...excludes "probity of life" (except portions of the dialogue may be under- Catholic, that the lives of faculty mem- perhaps in the case of conduct at the exstood to suggest the hope of some par- bers be lived with probity, that faculty treme) as a determinant of faculty status...
...12 to 15) A Visit to Amy-Claire, by Claudia Mills...
...to decline to do so...
...Accordingly, their governing boards, freely commit themselves to the the bishop is to invite the Catholic professor to request the Christian message as it comes to us through the Catholic church, mandate and, after appropriate review...
...candidly and with humor about their lives...
...members who may or may not be Catholic swer the flip side of that question: How While in a society as large and pluralis- and whose Catholic members do not have does their institution differentiate itself tic as the United States there is clearly a religious obligation to cause these cor- from a purely secular institution of highroom for more than one model for high- porate entities to elect to come under the er education...
...ing from two-year technical colleges to research universities"Eventually," he said...
...be entrusted only to academic peers...
...But there is also games seem natural for Sami and his friends, he joins with other hope for a better future...
...14 and up) New York, 1992...
...15.95 Almost thirteen, Clare lives alone and homeless in Atlantic City...
...Beggars' Ride, by Theresa Nelson...
...Going from back to front and from right to left, the book defines all words and is beautifully THE HUMAN illustrated in a technique using dyes on silk cloth...
...Others point out instead the enterprise of Catholic higher education...
...6 to 10) No Place to Be: Voices of Homeless Children, by Judith Berck...
...When the bombs come close, Sami's family finds ways of the Tonton Macoute...
...request the mandate from the competent ecclesiastical authority...
...Dial, New York, 1993...
...The At the very least, Catholic educators seriously fear the loss first is whether or not Christ and the church that serves his of state and federal funding if they do not have full academ- redemptive purpose constitute a historical intervention that ic freedom...
...Through their (14 and up) poems they reveal their fears and hopes for the future...
...Both documents take for granted the limited engaged in theological research ready to educate young Catholics character of scholars and their insights and propose structures at the graduate level, as well as to engage scholars of other fait Commonweal 19 November 1993: 23 traditions, or of no tradition, in the work of exploring and in- sel and support to all students in matters of ethics and spiritutegrating faith and reason...
...The 1992...
...and tus as a tenured member of its theology It is incumbent then on U.S...
...inconsistencies between its model and the sion between the institution's desire to be Catholic colleges and universities who will American model that most U.S...
...14.95 Homeless children in New York City, ages 9 to 18, describe the harsh realities of their lives in various types of temporary housing...
...However, in the changed climate and cation insisted "that the Catholic university must have a true in the light of existing national church legislation, individuautonomy and academic freedom in the face of authority of al bishops might very well take action...
...The twelve-year-old girl is sepaine studies, plays with, and talks to caterpillars...
...Instead, this independent and daring young hero- treatment of Jews in Russia...
...14.95 bly...
...He York, 1992...
...bishops, tion and finally issued in John Paul II's 1990 Ex corde eccle- and the leaders of Catholic higher education here have been siae, has helped focus these educators' attention and steeled in dialogue about the nature and structure of Catholic higher their wills for undertaking the challenge, so much the better...
...8 and up) FAMILY...
...This unusual true story of love and sharing is illustrated with paintings resembling Pierce's carvings by Aminah Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Robinson-also a friend of Elijah...
...13.95 movement come alive as thirty African-Americans who particLife in an Inupiaq Eskimo village is not easy-but the cold, the ipated in the movement when they were children and teen-agers bleakness, and the isolation all have their beauties as well as vividly recall the suffering and courage of those times...
...14.95 Letters from Rifka, by Karen Hesse...
...to academic freedom, but the bishops have gone along with We are in the closing rounds of a struggle that has run through- the new directions in Catholic higher education...
...13.95 Kiss the Dust, by Elizabeth Laird...
...Feeling left out and lonely, Rachel finally joins the game and finds out that being a "real" big sister is much nicer than being a "pretend...
...Harcourt Brace & Co., New York, 1992...
...I hope for giving the mandate-a practice that would not seem to vinot, but I fear they will...
...Illustrated by J. Brian Pinkney...
...What stube "nuanced," as well as ways in which A large majority of American colleges dent groups may be established...
...The Janet Austin, Media Specialist/ Librarian, Clifton High book is filled with exquisite paintings depicting this simple, ten- School, Clifton, New Jersey der relationship between child and grandparent...
...Nor are our women and men who continue to support them in their miscolleges isolated pockets of Catholic thought and culture...
...Africa are richly illustrated in oil and colored pencil...
...18.95 I Will Sing Life, by Larry Berger, Dahlia Lithwick, and Seven During two years spent teaching in a Colombian village, the Campers...
...And-about the gallinippers...
...14.95 Haiti is the setting for this novel about two young people-Djo, Sami lives in Beirut in "a time of guns and bombs...
...Whether anything taught autonomy and academic freedom might church...
...8 to 12) $12.95 It's 1492 and a twelve-year-old Taino girl on a Bahamian island The Pigman and Me, by Paul Zindel...
...out, first, not to be proved, or, secondly, not contradictory, Questions about the interpretation, meaning, and applicability or thirdly not contradictory to anything really revealed, but of specific directives to such a diverse set of institutions-rangto something that has been confused with revelation...
...Commonweal 19 November 1993: 15 Advertisement A to Zen: A Book of Japanese Culture, by Ruth Wells...
...A serious our "own proper roles" and define "the teaching of Catholic commitment by the hierarchy to engage in dialogue at the local theological disciplines" (a phrase that came in for consider- level could be a helpful outcome of this whole discussion...
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...acknowledged, and no clear or effective means are offered to Among them is what Newman called "elbow room...
...That imagination causes him to break the teapot and release Bad Fortune...
...of Ex corde ecclesiae for these colleges ecclesiae, only briefly touched on at Given this reality and this uncertainty, and universities and their governing bod- Georgetown, may be whether dual status we note an important omission from the ies...
...apostolic constitution and the general The essays included in the book looked norms, are now being circulated to the at American Catholic educational histoJohn F. Hunt & Paul C. Saunders bishops and Catholic college and uni- ry (Philip Gleason of Notre Dame), the versity presidents...
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...Catholic colleges court concluded that Catholic Universi- hired and who must be fired (for examand universities...
...Newly arrived from China, he puts much go together to the airport to meet Joel and how they welcome effort into learning English, making friends at school, and pracwith great joy this extension to their family...
...versities to request a mandate from the bishop or competent The times, they are a'changing...
...The author has grouped the tales, which her to the tools and art of this proud African people...
...13.95 young narrator of this story, a close friend, is eager to greet the Nine-year-old Yingtao is tone deaf and the youngest child in a new baby...
...the bishop is to reand together with the bishops...
...But after Joselle plays a cruel joke on they could belong to any racial or ethnic group...
...Warmly illustrated in pastels and watercolors...
...I assume that he and I must, first of all, distinguish of language, with no...
...parallel piece of church legislation, corde ecclesiae...
...If it is not different in siger educational institutions, it is uncertain, norms of Ex corde ecclesiae...
...12 and up) Illustrated by Floyd Cooper...
...Thus began a corre- cousin Winnie, a loving girl with Down's syndrome...
...as Catholic and as a true university (AmerGeorgetown dialogue of any significant These institutions have three options (in ican or otherwise) can be achieved other reference to the U.S...
...Pictures by Anita Lobel...
...The characters in the book are African-Americans, but with her new boyfriend...
...She ogy of Malcolm X's life from 1925-65, comparing the major events is comforted by her farmer uncle who lovingly assures her that of his life to landmark events in American history...
...13.95 slave free in her will...
...Illustrated by Carole is gay, Gary is thrown into confusion and self-doubt...
...like to have a clearer description of the relationships envisioned I would hope for three things to emerge from our discusbetween bishops and institutional authorities, and between sions: bishops and theologians...
...Because most Catholic establishment, governance structures, schools probably have an option (under HIGHER EDUCATION and conduct...
...bishops also adopt this kind op) to do...
...it is not, the specifying reference to Jesus Christ will always be I believe these leaders will continue to try to change the pro- considered in tension with the idea of a university...
...5 to 8) For the complete "Human Family" booklist, send a number 10 envelope, self-addressed and stamped to: The National Conference of Christians and Jews, 71 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10003 Commonweal 19 November 1993: 21 (Continued from page 15) their peers in higher education that the ordinances are not all error and harm...
...E role, nor do we want to view the hierarchy that way...
...source of problems be acknowledged to exist on both sides, This was more than a personal protest...
...She cheerfully year he meets the real-life model for "Pigman"-Nonno Frankie welcomes the strangers, not knowing that their arrival will end Vivona...
...15 Sitting on the front porch to catch a breath of air when the sumThe Falcon's Wing, by Dawna Lisa Buchanan...
...that is, not instantaneously, not hasti- left me pondering the following questions...
...12.89 On the way to the house of his son Atu's bride-to-be to deliver a dowry, Ajeemah and his son are kidnapped and sold into slavery...
...El professors of theology, the Reverend which is the serious risk of losing all John F. Hunt and Paul C. Saunders are Charles E. Curran...
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...Catholic colleges and universities...
...Richard Jackson Books) Orchard Judith Heide Gilliland...
...Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1992...
...The drafting committee included eight Catholic college and university presidents as consultors...
...22.95 She shares their stories of love, magic, poverty, and disgrace...
...By the end of the book, Tara realizes that whatever happens politically, the treasure of any ethnic group The Girl Who Loved Caterpillars, adapted by Jean Merrill...
...is so, then the incarnate Logos is the key also to the logos, the Question 6: What about Catholic college and university pres- intelligibility, of all that exists, and the desired goal of the logos idents...
...people, like plants, need "watering" to show that someone cares (12 and up) and a caring love can help make the sadness go away...
...they sions and to serve in faculty and administrative positions...
...the second grounds its necessity or at least great use- no other method of putting down error than the arm of force, fulness...
...6 to 8) Joseph $enkovitz, Librarian, Springfield Gardens High School, New York Blue Skin of the Sea, by Graham Salisbury...
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...Catholic higher education leaders would try to convince their colleagues and accrediting asso- sy some people-not all of them non-Catholicciations not to expel them...
...The titles includ- Blue Claws, by Walter L. Krudop...
...But other bishops might feel commended these in the face of the apparent unanimous opposi- pelled to exercise their authority to protect the church from tion of the eight college and university presidents who served (Continued on page 22) cr roles, will seek to promote the teaching of Catholic theological disciplines in communion with the church...
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...However, the AAUP has subsequently expressed strong disapproval of using Joseph A. Komonchak the limitations clause, and the association is still searching for a policy in this area...
...That popes and bishops tarianism...
...The academic officials do not become seen in the light of many recent Vatican actions and documents directly involved in the process...
...The bishops as a whole will vote on these ordinances ucation...
...4 to 8) when rains threaten the celebrations, they gather up all the party things and shoo the animals into the shed as they seek shelter Neighborhood Odes, by Gary Soto...
...The principles were that "truth cannot be contrary to truth" pressed in structures and procedures that guide and limit both and that "truth often seems contrary to truth...
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...6 to 10) Velasquez...
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...16.95 Poems from sixty-eight countries will delight readers wishing The black father of twin sisters Hannah and Rosie suddenly re- to explore the work of contemporary poets...
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