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...sore surprise last year. A $500,000 study they had commissioned reported that U.S. priests disagreed sharply with their hierarchy over matters of church discipline, liturgy and even moral teaching (TIME, April 26). Last week in Chicago, Priest-Sociologist Andrew Greeley, director of the priesthood study, told an ad hoc committee of bishops and priests what they should do about the results. His outspoken recommendations were hardly less painful than the study itself...
...wrongheaded worst. It is inherently unjust to have one party to a dispute select the committee to adjudicate that dispute; but beyond this, the GSD administration--charged with choosing Hartman's review committee--now concedes to breaking the ground rules for selecting that committee. And the ad hoc procedures it designed last May became necessary after the original grievance procedures--embodied in the Rogers Motion of May 1970--proved unworkable...
...hoc procedures also had stipulated that the five members of the committee were to be selected from the list of 20. Hartman charged that the Rogers Committee went beyond the list of 20 in forming its committee and that he had received a letter dated December 28, 1971 from Rogers stating that the final committee member selected was 23rd on the list...
...said he is unsure how he will respond to the Rogers Committee's decisions to form a new committee using the same as hoc procedures. "This time (the committee formation) could take longer (than seven months), since people will be even more reluctant to serve after this new idiocity on (the Rogers Committee's) part," he said...
Hartman said he still maintains that "the basic premises (of the ad hoc procedures) are unfair." "Having one party to the dispute choose the body to hear an appeal to its original decision" is a conflict of interest, he said...