Word: jesuits
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...called From Anathema to Dialogue to "answer in a fraternal manner the appeal addressed to all" by Roman Catholicism. Praising it in the conservative Paris daily Le Figaro, French Novelist François Mauriac urged his fellow Catholics to "buy this book by a Communist" and read it. German Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner has offered to write a commentary for a German translation...
...complaint. But shortly after Berrigan's departure, a group of students from Fordham picketed New York's chancery headquarters on Madison Avenue, bearing signs that read "Honesty in the Church" and "St. Paul Was a Rebel." More than 1,000 Catholics-including a number of nuns and Jesuit priests-signed an "open letter" to the chancery and to Berrigan's superiors that appeared as an advertisement in the New York Times. The co-signers did not impugn the motives of those responsible for Berrigan's removal, nor did they necessarily agree with his pacifist views...
That is what has happened to the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit priest, who helped organize an interdenominational protest committee called "Clergy Concerned about Viet Nam." Last month Berrigan's superiors ordered him to quit the committee and sent him off on a ten-week tour of Latin America. The Jesuits insist that the assignment was "routine." Berrigan's friends believe that his exile was forced upon the Jesuits by the Most Rev. John Maguire, who was acting head of the New York Archdiocese while Francis Cardinal Spellman was in Rome for the Vatican Council. Archdiocesan officials...
Preaching & Picketing. Berrigan, who was born in Two Harbors, Minn., and raised in Syracuse, has a considerable reputation as a skillful lyric poet. He taught English and Latin at Brooklyn Prep and theology at the Jesuits' Le Moyne College in Syracuse, where one of his students in 1963 was David Miller, the arrested draft-card burner. Since 1964 he has been an associate editor of Jesuit Missions magazine, a pleasant job that gives him plenty of time to travel and write...
Within the society, Berrigan has always been considered something of a radical. He has preached and picketed on behalf of civil rights. Earlier this year his Jesuit superiors reprimanded him for reciting more of the Mass in English than the council's liturgical reforms currently permit. A pacifist, he is a sponsor of the Catholic Peace Fellowship. Last October he joined Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, the leading theologian of Conservative Judaism, and Lutheran Pastor Richard John Neuhaus of Brooklyn, as a co-chairman of Clergy Concerned, whose aim is to question the morality of U.S. action in the Viet...