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Secular Support. Though it will be weeks before meaningful sales figures are in, U.S. Catholics seem as inclined toward fishless Fridays as their Canadian neighbors. In Manhattan an Ancient Order of Hibernians group celebrated the new regimen over platters of roast beef at an East Side pub. Jesuit-run Boston College is adding meat to its Friday menu. Across the Charles River in Cambridge, fish got a secular show of support: the Harvard Food Services office decided to keep fish on Friday, reasoning that it is "as good...
...Sistine Chapel-where Popes are elected and many solemn church decisions announced-Paul VI last week summoned delegates of the Jesuit General Congregation that for two months has been debating the reform of the order traditionally regarded as Roman Catholicism's highly disciplined and educated shock troops. To outsiders, the renewal effort has seemed dryly procedural and strikingly inconclusive; Paul's surprising purpose was to denounce sternly the "strange and sinister suggestions" that he detected in the discussions...
...change. Winding up business last week, the congregation referred certain big questions regarding the structure of the Society, such as whether or not to tamper with the fourth vow, to committee for further study. As for the daily hour of prayer, the delegates' report emphasized its importance in Jesuit tradition, but gave local provincials some leeway for making exceptions. Taken together with his recent standpat position on birth control, the Pope's rebuke showed that he intended to be cautious in carrying out the renewal promised by the Vatican Council. The day he spoke to the Jesuits, Paul...
...deal not only with the canon-law code but with basic constitutional problems of the church. Arguing that the church should incorporate more of today's democratic ideals in its structure, they urge a more distinct separation of executive, legislative and judicial functions. Under the present code, explained Jesuit Ladislas Orsy of Catholic University, there is a certain "imbalance" in church government: in practice, the offices of the Roman Curia both plan church regulations and enforce them. A wiser mode of government would be to have the law-creating function carried out by a separate, non-Curial agency-such...
Capital Ways. For the seminarian, the years in Rome constitute a unique opportunity to learn the subtle ways of Catholicism's capital and to study under some of the church's best minds: English Jesuit Frederick Copleston, a distinguished historian of philosophy, or German Redemptorist Bernard Haring, generally considered Catholicism's top moral theologian, who teaches at the Academia Alfonsiana (a branch of the Lateran). Otherwise, the training is not much better-and in some ways worse -than what they would receive back home. While U.S. seminaries have all but abandoned Latin for lectures and brought their...