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...contraception. "The official teaching authority has decreed that contraception is always wrong," wrote Father McMahon in the Birmingham Post. "This is what I deny." It is also denied in practice by millions of Catholics. "They don't leave the church over birth control nowadays," says San Francisco Jesuit George Kennard. "They leave that particular doctrine...
...month said that "1964 will go down in the history of the Catholic press as a year of shame." Not only were certain publications guilty of attacking bishops by name, but, claimed the prelate, they called into question "the obligation of the laity to accept the teaching of bishops." Jesuit officials suppressed the publication of a symposium on obedience that raised some critical questions about the society's rules. Hierarchical pressure last month forced the National Council of Catholic Men to cancel a four-part television series explaining the current church-wide debate over birth control. Both Father McMahon...
Jean Renoir, the French film director, saw his first movies in a Jesuit school where the fathers, " as they everywhere are, were in love with show business." He smiled at the Ivy Film types crowding the Loeb and continued to describe how one small boy who went to the movies on Saturday afternoon grew up to be the director of The Grand Illusion...
...Herberg noted that the Pope's sketch of 20th century trends inexplicably ignored the spread of totalitarianism. And a number of Christian thinkers have noted that in dealing with the crucial issue of disarmament and world peace, Pope John said little more than "ban the bomb." An American Jesuit de scribes John's vague generalities on coexistence as "a lump of suet in a pudding...
...Though modest in size," wrote Buffalo Lawyer Robert B. Fleming, the C.C.C.L. boasts Notre Dame's Law School Dean Joseph O'Meara, Massachusetts' former Attorney General Edward J. McCormack and the Rev. Benjamin L. Masse, associate editor of the Jesuit weekly America. Though it hardly speaks for the church, "hopefully it speaks for a Catholic point of view...