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...Roman Catholic Church has long since abandoned cruel punishments for heresy. Since the Second Vatican Council it has also been developing an even more liberal policy. Last week the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (successor to the Inquisition and the Holy Office) issued new procedures that are far more humane in handling doctrinal "error." The word heresy will no longer be used...
Notre Dame's President Theodore M. Hesburgh has come a long way since 1969, when he blasted campus disruptions in a famous letter to his students at the nation's best-known Roman Catholic university. Anyone substituting "force for rational persuasion," wrote Father Hesburgh, would be entitled to 15 minutes of "meditation," followed by suspension. Most Americans cheered those words, but their tone caused Hesburgh much trouble. Hard-liners miscast him as their hero; many of the young reviled him. Yet now his image is quite different: he has emerged as a kind of Catholic Kingman Brewster...
...scoffs at "white Indian" westerns: "No Indian holds a bow perpendicular. You must shoot with the bow horizontal so the arrow doesn't curve to the ground"). He helped his father log the tribe's timber and often paddled a canoe into Vancouver for supplies. Baptized a Roman Catholic like his father and grandfather, Dan George attended the reserve's missionary school until he was 16, then quit to devote full time to logging. Three years later he was married, and as his family grew (two sons, four daughters) the timber dwindled. "My father...
Hunt said that he felt the active role played by nuns and priests in the resistance movement was "a good thing. A lot of Middle America Roman Catholics will be puzzled and will be forced to confront the issue, Jerry Rubin they can forget about, but this is not so easy...
...because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a common place thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww...