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...number of Catholic theologians have argued in recent years that a vocation to the priesthood and a vocation to celibacy do not necessarily exist in the same person. French Dominican Yves Congar, an influential theological adviser at the council, has suggested that a married diocesan clergy might be better able than single priests to enter into the life of the people. Dutch Theologian Rudolf Bunnik says that since there is no convincing reason for a celibate priesthood, it is "an anomaly" to have a church law requiring...
Something Still Wrong? Inevitably, the Legion now appears too liberal to some, still too cautious to others. Roman Catholic Film Critic William Mooring, whose "Hollywood in Focus" column is syndicated in 41 diocesan newspapers, charges that "moderates" have been replaced in the ranks of Legion reviewers by liberals-"chiefly influenced by Jesuits"-who have an unCatholic tolerance for immoral movies. But many people agree with America's film critic Moira Walsh, herself a Legion consultor, who argues that something is still wrong with a rating system that can condemn a serious attempt at cinema art like The Pawnbroker...
...that repealed the state's fair housing act. Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, who also opposed the amendment, says that some of his Los Angeles churches "had a harder time than usual meeting the budget" for the same reason. When Episcopal Father James Jones of Chicago, the director of diocesan charities, was jailed last June for taking part in a civil rights demonstration, one layman rescinded a $750,000 pledge to the church's charitable agencies...
Hoyt, who was born in Clinton, Iowa, 43 years ago, has spent 16 years working on Catholic and secular papers. Bishop John Cody, who is now Chicago's Archbishop, hired Hoyt to edit the Kansas City-St. Joseph diocesan weekly in 1957, and running that paper (he still does) gave Hoyt the concept of the National Reporter...
...This Fellow. The blunt modern quality of the translation has delighted many Catholics but shocked others, and the correspondence columns of diocesan newspapers have recently been filled with letters about the version. "I haven't met anybody who has liked it," says Msgr. Charles Finn, pastor of Boston's Holy Name Church, and Bishop Robert J. Dwyer of Reno complains that the translation reduces "language to its lowest common denominator of intelligibility." Some critics saw an implied denial of Christ's divinity in the Confraternity phrasing of Matthew 28:6: the two women at Jesus' tomb...