Word: exoduses
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...Netherlands, faith has not prevented many a believing priest and nun from joining the exodus. On the rolls of those leaving today are some of U.S. Catholicism's most eminent names?such as former Jesuit Bernard J. Cooke, one of the nation's leading Catholic theologians. Last November, Cooke announced that he was leaving the clerical state and Marquette University, where he was chairman of the theology department, because he saw "a need to develop new forms of Christian life and priestly ministry outside the ordinary clerical structures but not in opposition to them...
Studies of the exodus indicate that celibacy alone is not a major cause of priests' leaving the ministry. Sociologist
...been struck by lightning and making sick calls. We had fiesta Masses coming out of our ears. My God, what they needed was doctors, medicine, technical help. We weren't helping. We were giving them a piece of bread." Hudepohl thinks that the sheer numbers of religious in exodus may change Catholicism; his wife Nancy, who was a Dominican nun for ten years, is more pessimistic: "The church has nothing to say to people...
Catholic colleges are now willing to hire ex-priests from elsewhere to teach; some exodus clerics are apparently allowed to remain on their own campuses. Fordham's prominent Jesuit Philosopher Robert O. Johann, who has requested laicization* because of a "growing disaffection with the way in which power and authority are exercised in the official church," is on a year's leave of absence at Holy Cross College; he has been officially welcomed back to Fordham for the school's fall semester. Catholic University Theologian Daniel C. Maguire, who helped draft the critique of Humanae Vitae signed by some...
...exodus crisis has traditionally been somewhat easier for nuns than for priests. Even sisters bound by solemn vows of chastity "until death" have been able to get dispensations with relative ease. And for a girl trained as a teacher or nurse, the transition to secular status was relatively painless. Leaving today "is a simple matter," says Midge Turk, college editor of Glamour magazine and an Immaculate Heart sister until 1966. ''A nun writes to the Pope. says please-give-me-a-dispensation-because-I-can-no-longer-function-in-this-life, and she almost automatically gets a prompt notification...