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Chaplain Boyd attributes the growth of these cells to a feeling widespread among believers that to find true Christianity and meaningful social involvement they must go beyond traditional churches, which are controlled by "bish ops with price tags all over their bodies." Jesuit Sociologist Rocco Caporale of the University of California sees the underground church as a return to the personalized "mystery dimension" of early Christianity and a reaction to the massive, corporate impersonality of institutionalized parishes...
...central question was whether it should be made easier for women to get legal and safely sterile abortions. Boston College's Jesuit Theologian-Lawyer Robert F. Drinan contended that even a therapeutic abortion under the model code recommended by the American Law Institute and recently adopted, in essence, by three states means taking a life. To ensure that no abortion should have legal sanction, Father Drinan suggested that the states should repeal all abortion laws...
Exchange of Ideas. In addition to editing the Jesuit quarterly Theologica Studies for 26 years and writing a show er of articles on dozens of facets of life, Father Murray published five books. Most notable: We Hold Thesi Truths, which expounds the idea that the American structure of church-state relations is more congenial to Roman Catholic thinking on the subject than any other such structure in history; and The Problem of God, which contrasts the Old Testament question "Is God our God?" and the medieval question "What is God like?" with modern man's "new will actively...
This, in fact, was the assignment given him in the spring of 1966 with his appointment as director of the John LaFarge Institute. Founded in 1964 by the editors of the Jesuit weekly, America, the institute brings together leaders from many sectors of society and the full spectrum of religious belief for off-the-record discussions of al most any and all subjects-religious liberty, racial discrimination, censorship, abortion, the population explosion, business and political ethics, religion and the arts, war and the anti-war movement...
Dungan's background, far more political than academic, may be what the job requires. He holds a B.S. from St. Joseph's College, a Jesuit school in Philadelphia, and an M.A. in public affairs from Princeton. He became a legislative assistant to then Senator John Kennedy in 1956, thereafter was one of Kennedy's closest political associates. He stayed on as a special assistant to President Johnson, served as U.S. Ambassador to Chile from 1964 until last month. Dungan is aware that a tough job lies ahead. But the position has some compensations. It pays...