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...when many other Roman Catholic priests choose to marry first and ask questions later, the Rev. Daniel C. Maguire, 40, has been something of an anomaly-and a considerable problem for his ecclesiastical superiors. Maguire wanted to marry, but was determined to win papal permission-beforehand. He also happened to be a respected moral theologian teaching at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He meant to retain that position after marrying...
...Proletariat. The Pope's message, 66 pages and some 12,000 words long, makes it clear that a considerable degree of commitment is necessary to overcome social ills, which the papal document views as unusually formidable. Grinding urbanization is among the Pope's prime targets. The "inordinate growth" of cities has left men with "a new loneliness in an anonymous crowd...
...Pope Paul VI's Easter-time blast at resigning Catholic priests [April 19] is staggering even to those of us who have become relatively inured to the aberrant nature of papal statements in recent years. If Paul's sentiments represent the church he claims to serve, we former priests are happier somewhere else. Judas, we recall, sold his master for a material profit. One wonders whether any institution in history has so consistently sold out on its principles and ideals as the Roman branch of Christendom-not now for 30 silver pieces, but for prestige, legal immunity...
...When Joseph Dollinger found it impossible to subscribe to papal infallibility at Vatican I, he felt constrained to leave the church and found the "Old" Catholics. When Hans Kung [April 5] finds it impossible to subscribe to any infallibility other than God's, he feels constrained to stay on and help bail out the sinking bark of Peter. Since infallibility is an irreformable position of the Catholic Church, many will wonder why Hans Kung does not leave the church and found the "New" Catholics. PAUL F. PALMER, S.J. New York City...
...good word for Martin Luther, whose refusal to recant there precipitated the Protestant Reformation. Referring to the Pope's acknowledgment that the Roman Church was partly responsible for the Protestant-Catholic split, the six Worms laymen and clergymen who signed the appeal called for a papal statement "bringing detente in the ever-present tensions regarding the excommunication of Martin Luther...