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Shock for the Church in China...
Your article on the church in China [Sept. 10] inadvertently asked an interesting question. Will Pope John Paul II, if he is successful in re-establishing relations with Communist China, allow Roman Catholics there to keep the church as it was before the Second Vatican Council, or will they have to abandon their traditions and endure the shock of all the changes that have occurred in the church over the past 20 years...
...cautions that one or two unexpected big local contributions could belie his prediction. "There may be three guys out here with a big interest in the preservation of Memorial Church, for all I know," he says. "The Preservation of Memorial Church" is one of the smaller items on the list of needs the Development Office has distributed to potential contributors--a list that also includes the larger goals of endowing faculty seats and student financial aid, renovating buildings, and funding educational programs like the Core Curriculum...
...Archdiocese should foot the bill. Others argue that it is a "state" event of enormous civic importance, and therefore the city and Commonwealth should assume financial responsibility as they would for any visiting dignitary. Still others argue that it compromises the always precarious doctrine of the separation of Church and state, and therefore even more care than usual must be exercised. The problem is particularly acute because Boston's political and civil establishment is in the hands of Catholics, none of whom wished to be accused of impropriety, and all of whom wish to vindicate the honor of their ancestors...
Peter J. Gomes is Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and a minister in Memorial Church...