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...another, more innocent day, God and country seemed to be solid and comfortable partners. To most of the nation, the second World War was a just cause, and when a chaplain at Pearl Harbor urged a Navy gun crew to "praise the Lord and pass the ammunition," it seemed appropriate that the slogan be turned into a popular song. But Viet Nam is a different kind of war, and clerical critics-including a few ex-chaplains -are beginning to question whether a minister in uniform can really be honest to God while remaining faithful to the Pentagon. This month several...
...ministers, members of the San Francisco Conference on Religion and Peace, focused on the failure of Presidio chaplains to concern themselves with stockade conditions, which led to the recent alleged mutiny there (TIME, Feb. 21). According to Rabbi Joseph B. Glaser, co-chairman of the conference, one Presidio chaplain told him that "it is not my job to see if a military man has been dealt justice." At this point, said Glaser, he decided that chaplains "do not have freedom of movement, and they do not even have freedom of conscience." Glaser's proposal: abolish military clergy altogether...
...Jesuits have left the 36,000-member order. Schoenenberger's departure grew directly out of a broader, long-brewing struggle between the rebellious young Jesuits in the Dutch church and Father Arrupe, the order's moderately progressive but increasingly worried "Black Pope." Last fall a Jesuit chaplain to Roman Catholic students in Amsterdam announced that he intended to marry and continue in the priesthood. Two other young Jesuits gave him public support, and early this month were dismissed from the order by Arrupe. The Provincial of the Dutch Jesuits, Father Jan Hermans, then re signed his post rather...
...Coffin, chaplain at Yale and a leader of the draft resistance movement, was chosen last week. Rudnick said that the selection committee had tried to get Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and Norman K. Mailer '43, but that both had refused...
...addition to a not-too-optimistic Introduction provided by Howard, the booklet includes comments on the discussion by theology professor William J. Wolf; graduate student E. John Gwynn; and M.I.T. chaplain James S. Sessions, who surmises, "Perhaps the education that is required will not be allowed to take place within the formal structures of the University...