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What gives a measure of credibility to this prospect of change is evidence that the new generation of religious recruits seems to be as dedicated to renewal as those who have left ecclesiastical ranks in the cause of another form of Christian service. Says a Jesuit scholastic from California, Lawrence Goulet: "Is there hope for the future of the church? Does the bear live in the woods? Some see tumult in the church as destructive decadence. I see it as a sign of vitality." Seminarian Lyndon Farwell contends that "those of us who are staying with the institutional church...
Hotly outspoken ex-priests in the McLoughlin style are the exception today. Far more leave with a deep respect and even love for Catholicism?or at least for what it might be. Keenly disturbing the church is the quality of the exodus clergy. Says Jesuit Sociologist Eugene Schallert, who has just completed a study of 317 departed priests: "Those who are leaving are some of the best men in the church?some of the most intelligent, most enterprising, most charismatic. They are occupationally top men, capable of holding down really good jobs...
...Netherlands, faith has not prevented many a believing priest and nun from joining the exodus. On the rolls of those leaving today are some of U.S. Catholicism's most eminent names?such as former Jesuit Bernard J. Cooke, one of the nation's leading Catholic theologians. Last November, Cooke announced that he was leaving the clerical state and Marquette University, where he was chairman of the theology department, because he saw "a need to develop new forms of Christian life and priestly ministry outside the ordinary clerical structures but not in opposition to them...
...liturgical reforms may well come in time. The Pope's own preface to the new "order of Mass" encourages "legitimate variations and adaptations," and throughout the instructions there is a notable emphasis on adapting the liturgy to local customs and needs. "The spirit of the new missal," concludes Jesuit C. J. McNaspy, "is releasing rather than restrictive." While the Pope clearly intends the new Mass to be a working model, McNaspy and others are confident that the way is still open for the Mass to develop further...
ROBERT SOUTHWELL, another Jesuit, whose poems were admired by Ben Jonson, executed after prolonged torture. PHILIP HOWARD, Earl of Arundel and forefather of the present Duke of Norfolk, who was caught trying to escape to France. He died after ten years of privation in the Tower of London, accused of praying for the success of the Spanish Armada...