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...powerlessness--but rather to what Hitch cock tellingly calls "spiritual sub-urbanization." The radical spiritual ness of the Church is very much outside of the mainstream of American pragmatism with its emphasis on GNP and incentive systems. What liberal Catholics have failed to see--and what the Fathers Berrigan and Thomas Merton and the Catholic Worker movement have--is that orthodox belief can lead very easily to a radical critique. Like the Kennedy liberals (a term which is too broad but nonetheless descriptive), the Catholic liberals confused elitism with democracy. What they've found out is that real change simply...
...Helder Câmara, battling for his nation's poor, or Belgium's Leo-Jozef Cardinal Suenens, pleading for a greater role in the church for bishops, priests and laymen as well. Often they have come from outside the hierarchy altogether: from Daniel and Philip Berrigan, languishing in jail for the cause of peace; from the irrepressible Hans Küng, refusing to be read out of the church and telling the Pope that infallibility is a wrong idea...
This is one big difference between Sir Thomas More and the brothers Berrigan. One cannot read More's prison letters or the record of his trial without realizing that if it had been at all possible, he would have avoided going to the block. In contrast, the Berrigans seem to have relied primarily on dramatics, and I for one cannot help feeling that their despairing cries against the System evidence a subconscious desire for martyrdom...
Angela Davis, the Berrigan Brothers, Black Panthers, Mayday arrests. William Kunstler, the Chicago Seven, Wire-tapping are all Supreme Court subjects for determination and clarification. An announced advisary to these people and to the principles for which they stand, should not be approved by the U.S. Senate to be seated on our Supreme Court. Many thousands of Americans are more qualified...
...concern that several times his testimony before congressional committees was wrong-although FBI agents were generally allowed to correct the mistakes before they were entered in the record. Mitchell was especially angered by the way in which Hoover endangered the Justice Department's case against the Rev. Philip Berrigan and others charged with conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger, Nixon's foreign-affairs adviser. Hoover insisted on telling a Senate subcommittee about the alleged plot last November, more than a month before a grand jury began to return indictments...