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...years ago, Monsignor Stephen J. Kelleher, then presiding judge of the New York archdiocesan marriage court, caused an ecclesiastical stir when he suggested that an individual should have the right in conscience to decide whether he might civilly divorce, remarry and responsibly remain a participating communicant in the Catholic Church. Now, such suggestions are not uncommon. A group of Catholic churchmen meeting in Germany last summer acknowledged that the ideal of permanent marriage is not easily achieved in practice and that Catholics involved in successful second marriages should not be denied the sacraments of the church, as canon...
...Mass occasionally, but feels that "Christianity is just one of many symbol systems that point to man's dependence on God." As for Catholicism, he adds: "There are times when I think the church may have a death wish." FRANK MATTHEWS, 47, formerly a St. Louis priest heading archdiocesan radio and TV projects, serves as director of recruitment for VISTA. "I had reached the threshold of frustration," he says of his own departure in 1967. "I couldn't accept the church's position on birth control and celibacy, or its slow implementation of consensus theology. I was disturbed...
...liberal Timothy J. Manning, 60, as Archbishop of Los Angeles (TIME, Feb. 2). Many, even in Rome, felt that a more flexible prelate than Mclntyre could have avoided the break. When the nuns started to wear secular clothing in the fall of 1967, McIntyre barred them from teaching in archdiocesan schools. The nuns refused to take up the habit again or to modify other changes-including the elimination of compulsory daily prayer...
...church ill-fitted him for the turbulent social issues of the '60s. To the consternation of California liberals, he failed to join fellow bishops in opposing efforts to repeal the state's fair-housing laws in 1964. The Immaculate Heart nuns were barred from archdiocesan schools because Mclntyre disapproved of their internal reforms. While Mclntyre was saying midnight Mass last Christmas in St. Basil's Church on Wilshire Boulevard, a group of Mexican-Americans called Catolicos por la Raza (Catholics for the People) staged a demonstration outside to protest the building's alleged construction cost...
Full Circle has a spiritual mystique that is rare in religious urban reform efforts. As a result of Fox's work as archdiocesan coordinator of New York's Spanish Community Action, Full Circle has established affiliates and projects in most of the city's marginal or ghetto areas. The object, says Fox, is not to push through neighborhood improvement projects, but "to show others the riches in themselves"?to inspire the poor to become aware of their own resources and the potential beauty of the urban setting. That process has inspired some notable neighborhood renewals...