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...psychologists had a friendly, ecumenical view of clerical neurosis. Jesuit William C. Bier, chairman of Fordham's psychology department, said that the priesthood has a particular attraction for the potential schizophrenic. Dr. Fred Brown, chief psychologist at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, reported that many rabbinical candidates were sick, but "no 'sicker' than the ministerial candidates of the Roman Catholics and Protestants...
...Arcs. Nor did Cardinal Ottaviani have any luck in battles outside the council. Last week, he asked Pope John XXIII to order Austria's liberal Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner out of Rome, and to censure the Jesuit-run Biblical Institute (which by its existence implies critical study of the Scriptures). The Pope's answer quickly spread through Vatican circles: "It is only recently that I have learned of this attack on the Biblical Institute," he told Ottaviani. "Why didn't you let me know sooner? As far as Father Rahner is concerned, I have not been shown...
...eyebrow-raising editorial two months ago, the Jesuit weekly America warned "our Jewish friends" that their opposition to religious practices in public schools might lead to "an outbreak of anti-Semitism.'' America's reward was a torrent of criticism from all segments of U.S. Jewry. Now some leading Jewish intellectuals are having second thoughts about the questions America raised...
...years. The structure of ritual is so elaborately linked* that any change is likely to become a crucial change. If Latin were dropped, for example, it might be natural also to drop plain chant, which is awkward in most other languages. "In the last four centuries," says Jesuit Liturgist Hermann Schmidt, "the ideal has become immutability. Certainly God is immutable; but we are men, and we cannot always express ourselves the same. This is a crisis of immutability...
...course; it's a prayer." Those favoring liturgical reform emphasized the necessity of relating the Mass to the people, beginning with the use of a language that the people understand. They argue that unless worshipers can participate in the service, the Mass becomes "mere devotionalism." Liturgy, warns Jesuit Schmidt, "will not exercise any influence on the mass of the people if it is divorced from modern civilization and from the existing social situation...