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...chaos as usual last week at freewheeling Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Disgruntled trustees were trying to fire the president, who refused to quit. The new chancellor, an apostate Jesuit who says he took the position "so I could get married," was reassuring professors that they would keep their jobs-although the college fired 25% of the faculty last spring and cut the survivors' pay by 13%. At the rear of the admissions office, students were busily stuffing envelopes and making telephone calls in a desperate attempt to recruit more freshmen next year so that the college...
MODELS OF THE CHURCH, by Avery Dulles (Doubleday; 216 pages; $5.95). Unusually popular for a work of theology, this book is already in its fourth printing. Jesuit Dulles, a leading U.S. Catholic theologian, writes cogently on the pros and cons of five current theories of ecclesiology (the theology of the nature of the church), making the proceedings accessible to laymen. Because ecclesiology underlies many other current debates in Christianity-such as ecumenism, authority and hierarchy, secular v. sacred mission-the book is important. In particular, Dulles rejects the "Institutional" model that characterized Catholicism until recent years, while seeing some value...
...opposed to polygenism, the theory that evolution to human form occurred in many places at roughly the same time. Pius XII's encyclical Humani Generis in 1950 cautiously left the door open regarding polygenism, pointing out that it "apparently" was not consistent with church doctrine on original sin. But Jesuit Francis McCool of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome says that "the scientific evidence for polygenism seems to have increased," and he feels that the theory need not necessarily clash with the Scriptures. McCool stresses that whether Adam and Eve are viewed as individuals or symbols in Genesis, the story...
Bernardin's diligence and powers of conciliation will be sorely tested during his three years in national office. As two pessimistic reports to the bishops' conference last week indicated, the church is embattled both from within and without. One of the two appraisals came from Jesuit Sociologist John L. Thomas, who warned the bishops that today's technological society in the U.S. is "bereft of any convincing sense of ultimate purpose or rooted moral belief." Moreover, in the mobile U.S. society, Catholics have lost much of their comforting old ethnic solidarity. The changes in the church that...
...think his shyness, given my father's personality, was inevitable," she says. "My father liked to share his family with the body politic. We were always paraded out front." Did her brother resent this? "Well," says Kathy, "he went into a Jesuit seminary for four years...