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...departures of lay Catholics are less frequent now, but there were many. Some succumbed to what Greeley calls the "meat on Friday"* syndrome: "Once it became legitimate [in 1966] to eat meat on Friday, one could doubt the authority of the Pope, practice birth control, leave the priesthood and get married or indeed do anything else one wanted to," he writes. Although he rejects this factor as a major explanation of the religious falloff, certain Catholics found it painfully real. "Vatican II amazed me," wrote Author Doris Grumbach in the Critic, "because it raised the possibility of more answers than...
Heads of women's religious orders, other nuns, laywomen-some 1,200 in all-met in Detroit last November to discuss and coordinate their cause. Says Elizabeth Carroll, a Sister of Mercy working at Washington's Center of Concern: "The arguments for women in the priesthood are unassailable." The bishops do not agree. Archbishop Bernardin argues that "serious theological objections" still stand in the way of women priests. Many Catholics are open to the idea, however, including an elderly woman at St. Columbkille's. "If a woman wants to be a priest, that's fine with...
...could have children and be a full-time priest. He would have to spend more time on his children's development and less on parish problems." But Margaret Howells, of Fairfax, Va., finds that her experience of going through a marital separation "makes me call for a married priesthood." Says she: "The priests need to experience as well as study the problems and joys of marriage...
That resistance, coupled with the firing, eventually led Griffin to leave the priesthood (the Jesuit order) in February of 1975. His departure from his vocation points toward what Kelley sees as a trend among Catholic left leaders. "A lot of the leadership of the Catholic left has left, they have maintained their leftness, but have lost some of their Catholicness," she said...
...past, Berrigan has several times been reprimanded by the Roman Catholic church for his use of illegal means of social protest, and has even been threatened with expulsion from the priesthood. Berrigan characterizes his current relationship with the Vatican as "an uneasy truce." He maintains, however, that his relations with the Jesuit hierarchy to which he is much more immediately responsible are excellent...