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Cardinal for Renewal
Good luck to Cardinal Gushing and his ideas [Aug. 21]. I hope that other Catholic clergymen will join with him in modernizing the church. It's about time Catholic parishioners realized that it's not true that only Protestants go to hell.
The Catholic faith is not, and should not be reduced to, a legalistic system of detached abstract theology. It should be a living, dynamic, individualistic relationship with God. Conservative Catholic prelates and laymen would do well to listen to Cardinal Gushing and learn something from him.
Sir: It may come as a surprise to Cardinal Gushing and others that there are many Catholic lay people who are not in sympathy with aggiornamento and ecumenism. As for our 20th century Zwinglis, Calvins and other self-anointed "progressives," I suggest they join one of our available crackpot sects...
He believes that the task of Christians now is not to join in one church but simply to understand one another. His distrust of Harvard having long since died, he helped organize a Catholic-Protestant ecumenical dialogue there last year with Augustin Cardinal Bea of Rome's Secretariat for...