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...REV.) DAVID T. NELSON
...Catholic University of America, Bishop William J. McDonald, 63, announced that he would quit as rector (chief administrative officer) in November. McDonald was at the helm last April when a faculty-led strike closed the school for five days, and forced the reinstatement of the Rev. Charles E. Curran, 33 (TIME, April 28), who had been fired because of his liberal views on birth control. The revolt, latest in a long series of incidents involving academic freedom at C.U., did not sit well with the cardinals and archbishops who serve as the school's trustees. McDonald, well known...
Except for such compelling reasons as scandal, heresy or outright incompetence, a Roman Catholic bishop is almost never separated from his see. For the past seven months, however, the Most Rev. Nicholas T. Elko, Ruthenian-rite bishop of Pittsburgh, has been in Rome, barred by his church superiors from returning to his diocese. The case of Bishop Elko, who describes his situation as "exile," casts fascinating light on Catholicism's current internal stresses-and on the problems of its little-known Eastern-rite churches...
Among the condemned were Actor Walther Bethke (1943) and the Rev. Josef Muller (1944), who were executed for cracking private jokes about Hitler. A country doctor was sentenced to death simply for telling a pregnant patient that she was courageous to have a baby in the fifth year of the war-an aspersion, as the court saw it, on Nazi chances of victory. When Lawyer Reinhart Freiherr von Godin wrote a letter consoling the sister of a friend condemned by the court, Von Godin too was arrested and executed for "slandering the people and the Reich...
Inside many a modern Roman Catholic priest nowadays seethes a latter-day Luther crying to be born. One troubled cleric who has let the rebel inside him speak out is the Rev. James Kavanaugh, 37, a diocesan priest of Lansing, Mich., now serving as a counselor to a private mental health foundation in California. In a new book entitled A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church (Trident; $4.95), Kavanaugh unleashes a bitter, searing attack on the foibles and faults of Roman Catholicism, which he still professes to love and serve. Thanks in large measure to its shock value...