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...feeling of clerics who regard celibacy as a burden that is heavy without being sweet. Within the past three years, no fewer than 4,000 priests have asked Rome to release them from their vows in order to marry. A poll conducted last year by Jesuit Sociologist Joseph Fichter indicated that 62% of U.S. priests favored a relaxation in the ban against marriage...
...made it clear that he will maintain the rule of wifeless priests, a surprisingly large number of clerics think that some modification is in order. This month Kansas City's enterprising National Catholic Reporter published a survey of 3,000 U.S. diocesan priests, conducted by Jesuit Sociologist Joseph Fichter of Harvard. His finding: 62% of the clergy believed that priests should have the choice of marriage or celibacy; 31% might marry if the church would allow...
...Advocate officers have come to frown on such lack of sophistication as they occupy themselves with the wider literary world. In the last decade, its editors have written foppish editorials scorning the semi-autobiographical short stories produced in undergraduate writing courses. One such editorial, by Robert P. Fichter '60, mocks the "Harvard sex story" genre of the 1950's; he contends that the familiar locales of these stories--Widener, the Waldorf, the banks of the Charles, a fifth floor in Lowell--have been played out. But "Winter Term," by Sallie Bingham '58, is like Nemerov's stories: perceptive, caring, indelible...
...philosophy in 1951-52, last semester had a Roman Catholic teaching at its divinity school: Carmelite Father Roland Murphy, an Old Testament expert from Catholic University. Harvard's divinity school has had a chair of Catholic studies since 1958; currently, the professorship is held by Jesuit Sociologist Joseph Fichter. Jesuit Biblical Scholar John McKenzie* is on the staff of the University of Chicago divinity school. Last summer the divinity school of Vanderbilt University created its own chair of Catholic studies...
...Fichter is typical of the Divinity School's activist-theologians who are leading a religious revolution aimed at what another professor called "getting the church back into the pain and hope and excitement of the real world...