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Resentments between traditionalists and those who advocate freer scriptural interpretation helped to cause schism a year ago among Southern Presbyterians in the U.S. The Roman Catholic Church is increasingly beset by similar quarrels. Last March, Bishop James Rausch, a progressive who is general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, publicly censured several conservative columnists who had questioned the orthodoxy of some current U.S. Catholic biblical scholarship...
...case in point: in a speech at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., last March, Bishop James Rausch, general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference, intervened in a feud between some liberal Catholic biblical scholars and several right-wing Catholic columnists who had charged the scholars with heresy. Taking the liberals' side, Rausch accused the journalists of scholarly incompetence; he deplored them as "third parties" who were trying to usurp the bishops' power to decide what is "orthodox" in Catholic theology. Freedom of the press, he said, "should not protect them from public criticism and public rebuke...
...only potential area of conflict is the East German suspicion that the Russians, in the Brezhnev era of détente, may be getting soft on capitalism. "It is possible for us to be more militant than Moscow," says Max Rausch, 75, a grand old man of the Communist Party. "After all, we live on the border...
Bishop James S. Rausch, general secretary of the United States Catholic Conference, led off by charging that the CBS decision to rebroadcast the two shows was "irresponsible and gratuitous." The principal Catholic objection: "Advocacy of abortion is unacceptable in a situation-comedy format aired ... when children are a large part of the audience...
...manager." Rausch says modestly. His manager. William Kress, 21, of Springfield. III...has starved Rausch for three days...