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Calman Jacoby begins as a simple, God-fearing small businessman. As a result of various political and social upheavals, he winds up an industrial entrepreneur. The children, as usual, go modern in their own ways. One of Calman's daughters commits the heresy of an interfaith marriage. A son-in-law, fascinated and undermined by science, moves toward that 20th century religion-substitute, psychiatry. The son-in-law's sister moves to the city and turns into a forerunner of the Career Girl...
...clandestine as spy rings, have neither a name nor a formal organization, limit membership to a trusted few. In this sense, at least, they resemble the cells of the zealous Catholic lay organization Opus Dei (TIME, May 12). A major reason for so much secrecy is that the interfaith membership includes renewal-minded priests and nuns who fear the wrath of their bishops for taking part in illegal services.* Nonetheless, many of these clerics regard the services at underground churches as far more meaningful than Catholicism's official liturgy. Says one nun who belongs to an underground cell...
...Chicago last week, 145 theologians, church historians, priests and ministers gathered for the organizational meeting of the brand-new North American Academy of Ecumenists. For most of the participants, it was like a college reunion. Many had spent the previous week at an interfaith Colloquium on evangelism at Notre Dame. Others were veterans of the series of theological dialogues carried on by the Roman Catholic hierarchy with various U.S. Protestant churches. Still others had attended talks at the World Center for Liturgical Studies in Florida, the Packard Manse retreat house in Massachusetts, the Jesuits' John LaFarge Institute in Manhattan...
Since ecumenism has become an accepted part of church life, all too many exponents of church unity have discovered to their horror that they spend most of their time attending interfaith meetings. According to Jesuit Theologian Daniel O'Hanlon of California's Alma College, so many interfaith organizations and dialogues are under way that there "may be a need for an ecumenical movement to bring the ecumenical committees together...
Wider Echelons. The great danger of so much clubbiness, believes Murray, is that interfaith discussions "are in danger of spinning off into the blue" and becoming the private province of an ecumenical clique. He believes that ecumenical discussion, hitherto largely limited to a cadre of top theologians, needs to bring in significantly wider echelons of the church at large. "What we need," he says, "are parish priests, members of the bureaucracy, people who can give practical application to what goes on at these meetings. The discussions tend not to run down but to go round and round...