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...nation's best-known Jesuit seminary, Woodstock College, last week announced plans to move from rural Maryland to Manhattan, as part of a proposed new interdenominational religious center. Rejecting an attractive offer of affiliation from Yale, Woodstock will be a partner with Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary and other institutions in establishing the center; the partnership will permit Jesuit students to attend courses at both Columbia and Union...
...there is no clear proof that the Saigon government represents the will of the people. Few if any of the antiwar clerics advocate handing the country directly over to Hanoi, but they argue that the U.S. has no divine mandate to use war to prevent the spread of Communism. Jesuit Theologian Daniel O'Hanlon of California's Alma College argues that the U.S. anti-Communist policy is "the holy-war theory, and it has been specifically rejected by the church." O'Hanlon contends that the pronouncements of both Pope John XXIII and Paul VI propose dialogue...
...feel especially sensitive to this issue is a residual sense of guilt for Christianity's failure to protest against morally debatable acts of World War II by the Allies. "The churches did not responsibly cry out against the saturation bombing of Dresden, about dropping the A-bomb," contends Jesuit John Coleman of Alma College. As a consequence, he says, churchmen today tend "to be very sensitive about the responsibility of silence...
Heresy Charges. The imprimatur is no guarantee that a book will not be attacked as heretical. Last year Bishop Joyce granted Sheed & Ward an imprimatur for Jesuit Biblical Scholar John L. McKenzie's Authority in the Church (TIME, May 13, 1966). Although the book was later honored by the Catholic Press Association as the year's outstanding American theological work, Archbishop Robert E. Lucey of San Antonio recently denounced it as "openly heretical" on at least two counts. McKenzie retorted that Lucey should either withdraw his complaints or make formal charges of heresy to Rome...
...Harvard, Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Andover-Newton, Boston University, and three Catholic institutes: the Jesuit schools at Boston College and Weston College and the archdiocesan seminary of St. John...