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...York Jesuit Joseph F. O'Rourke anticipated some sort of trouble when he went to Marlboro, Mass., recently to baptize the baby of Mrs. Carol Morreale (TIME, Sept. 2). Incensed by her advocacy of an abortion-information clinic, local priests had refused to perform the baptism, and O'Rourke stepped into the breach against orders from his immediate superior. Last week it was clear that the Jesuits took O'Rourke's disobedience much more seriously than he had expected: his New York provincial superior, the Very...
Taylor insisted that his action "does not speak to" the abortion controversy in Marlboro, but reflected "differences of understanding and judgment" between O'Rourke and his superiors. Taylor stressed that he had decided on the dismissal (which had the approval of Jesuit headquarters in Rome) only after "careful review and discussion" with O'Rourke. But Father Frederick O'Connor, the superior who had originally ordered O'Rourke not to perform the baptism, wondered whether the young Jesuit had been given "ample opportunity and assistance to defend himself...
...forbidden him to baptize the child "under holy obedience" -the form of order usually used in grave matters. Moreover, he said, the dismissal procedures amounted to "almost a trial by Telex," and he intends to appeal the decision to the Vatican. Meantime, he remains a priest-if not a Jesuit-in good standing, though he must now find a bishop who will authorize him to exercise his priestly functions publicly...
Five of the eleven are Roman Catholics. Among them are Dom Helder Comoro of Brazil (TIME, June 24), the activist, junta-baiting archbishop whose "cry is justice"; Jesuit Philosopher Bernard Lonergan of Canada, a "notoriously difficult thinker" whose work seeks to join theology and the social sciences; and Father Andrew Greeley, a Chicago sociologist whose insights have provided "a better understanding of today's religious crisis." Swiss-born Theologian Hans Küng of West Germany's Tübingen University was described as "devotedly Roman Catholic" although he has a deserved reputation as a radical...
...Father John J. McLaughlin, the Brooks Brothers Jesuit who was one of Richard Nixon's most vocal clerical defenders, will soon be leaving his $30,000-a-year job as a White House speechwriter and maybe even his flat in the Watergate complex. But unlike Rabbi Baruch M. Korff, who has vowed to campaign "for those [anti-Nixon] leftists and liberals to go to hell," McLaughlin seems to bear no grudges. In an interview last week, he admitted to feeling "rage, desolation and the bends" as the former President's case collapsed. But he also welcomed the sense...