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Ironically, Helmsing had helped found NCR, which started as an offshoot of Kansas City's diocesan newspaper. But as the NCR became more adventurous in its reporting and criticism, relations between the bishop and the papers staff became strained. In his indictment, Helmsing formally charged that the paper "has made itself a platform for the airing of heretical views." Specifically, the bishop attacked an essay by Theologian Rosemary Ruether (TIME, April 19) denying the perpetual virginity of Mary, and a column by Philosopher-Journalist Daniel Callahan written after the Pope's encyclical on birth control, which recommended that...
...name of the game," said one Roman Catholic priest in Chicago last week. That was the mood of the 233 clerical delegates to the constitutional convention of the National Federation of Priests' Councils-the first such organization in the world. Inspired by the successful growth of diocesan-wide priests' associations and senate (TIME, Feb. 23), the federation has been in the works for a year and, like its local counterparts, it is designed to give priests a larger share in shaping the attitudes of a changing church...
...need of pastoral counseling because of frustration in their jobs, estimates the Rt. Rev. Chandler W. Sterling. Properly appalled by this gloomy statistic, Bishop Sterling is now planning what he hopes will become a nationwide rehabilitation program for troubled clergymen, to be known as PARDON.* A dropout from the diocesan ministry himself, Sterling, 57, resigned last October as Bishop of Montana because he felt "completely frustrated in my work." A zealous Christian activist, he was discouraged by the failure of Montana Episcopalians to support such measures as laws against racial discrimination in housing, and the organization of urban ministries...
...that the Roman Catholic Church has traditionally tried to prevent the spread of error and heresy is by the use of the imprimatur. According to canon law, any book by a Catholic layman or cleric dealing with faith or morals must be cleared by a diocesan censor and approved for publication by a bishop, normally shown by the Latin word imprimatur - meaning "Let it be printed." In the postconciliar church, any kind of censorship seems anachronistic, and there is a wide spread feeling among publishers and theologians that the whole system ought to be abandoned...
...business. Letters exchanged between Mr. Sayre and Mr. Galvin and the other dialogists are being published throughout the school year in this and 20 other college papers. The other three dialogists are students at Northwestern, Princeton, and Stanford. Mr. Sayre describes a two-year course he took at a Diocesan Seminary as full and valuable. Football, baseball, drama, and student/national government are among his interests. He is majoring in government, minoring in speech. His career goal is law. The letter-exchange is part of an effort by Mr. Galvin to improve campus-corporation understanding...