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Several of the ten churches are on record against the Viet Nam War, others have engaged in active opposition to it, and one-the Church of the Brethren-is avowedly pacifist. Without accusing them of hypocrisy, the report chides church investors for failing to consider the moral implications of military-industrial investments, and for inadvertently enjoying the fruits of "war profiteering." The report objects less to the dollar total of church support to such industries (tiny in relation to the companies' $10 billion military sales) than to the "moral aura of legitimacy" that it provides...
...pacifist Church of the Brethren, where obvious military investments have always been avoided, Treasurer Robert Greiner questioned the report's blackballing of standard blue chips like A.T. &T. (5.5% military sales, principally the Safeguard ballistic missile system and Nike Hercules missile). "You can't get out of everything," Greiner said. "To be a purist, you could hardly stay in the U.S." Even worse conflicts will probably be raised when the Corporate Information Center starts evaluating industries for their overall "purity," considering such factors as their consumer policies, minority-hiring practices and polluting of the environment. What...
...laid down the first American do-gooder's covenant when he told his flock: "We must love one another with a pure heart fervently, we must bear one another's burdens, we must look not only on our own things, but also on the things of our brethren." William Penn was a tireless proponent of charity: 'The best recreation is to do good." There will be opportunity for lighter pursuits "when the pale faces are more commiserated, the pinched bellies relieved and the naked backs clothed, when the famished poor, the distressed widow and the helpless orphan...
...dream twice deferred. Twenty-four years ago, Bengalis voted to join the new nation of Pakistan, which had been carved out of British India as a Moslem homeland. Before long, religious unity disintegrated into racial and regional bigotry as the autocratic Moslems of West Pakistan systematically exploited their Bengali brethren in the East. One year ago last week, the Bengalis thronged the polls in Pakistan's first free nationwide election, only to see their overwhelming mandate to Mujib brutally reversed by West Pakistani soldiers. That crackdown took a terrible toll: perhaps 1,000,000 dead, 10 million refugees, untold thousands...
...precisely this point where Hitchcock's analysis stops. Although he concedes that Catholic radicals are now beginning to rediscover the working class (like their brethren in the New Politics movement), he dismisses this as the same sort of fadism which led his villains to endorse psychoanalysis and the Poverty Program in the middle sixties. In fact, Catholic liberals are going through a kind of radicalization, which may well force them to go beyond fadism. This summer, for example, Michael Novak, a radical Catholic journalist who is a key villain in Hitchcock's analysis, wrote an article for Harper...