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Many experts welcomed most of Bennett's proposals as sound, if somewhat familiar. "Shoot," said Robert Saigh, director of public information for the Chicago public schools, "we're in step with all of that, and have been for years." Some educators, however, bristled at Bennett's suggestion that professionals from outside the teaching ranks -- business executives or retired military officers, for example -- might sometimes be brought in as grade school principals. Some critics also accused him of taking too rosy a ! view of the state of primary schooling and failing to address such questions as learning difficulties and the special...
...serving it, not of despising it but of appreciating it, not of condemning it but of strengthening and saving it." Such a new attitude toward the world implies what Bishop Joseph Blomjous of Tanzania calls the "positive appreciation of terrestrial values in themselves." Cardinal-Patriarch Maximos IV Saigh of Antioch argues that the effect of the council has been to "put the church into a permanent state of dialogue-dialogue with itself for a continuous renewal; dialogue with our Christian brothers in order to restore the visible unity of the body of Jesus Christ; dialogue, finally, with today...
...FRED SAIGH St. Louis...
...most notably, union with Orthodoxy. Heading the list of new cardinals were three leaders of Oriental-rite churches that form a bridge between Rome and the East. Stephanos I Sidarouss is Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria. Lebanon's Paul Peter Meouchi is leader of the Maronite Christians. Maximos IV Saigh, Melchite Patriarch of Antioch, is a bearded churchly rebel who spoke French instead of Latin at the Vatican Council and three times previously refused a red hat on the grounds that "for a Patriarch to accept a cardinalate is treason...
...frame a doctrine on marriage that would take into account new medical discoveries. "We have learned many things since Aristotle," he said. "I urge you, brothers, let us avoid a new Galileo case-one is certainly enough in the history of the church." Even more explicit was Maximos IV Saigh, the Melchite Patriarch of Antioch. Speaking, as always, in French rather than the Council's official Latin, the Patriarch admitted that "the immense majority" of Catholics did not practice what the church teaches on birth control. "Shouldn't the official position of the church in the matter...