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About 315 of the 380 nuns decided to follow their president, Sister Anita Caspary, in asking for dispensation from church vows. The request will be granted. Rather than disband, they plan to form an independent secular organization devoted to "the service of man in the spirit of the Gospel...
...archantagonist, conservative James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre, 83, was replaced by the more liberal Timothy J. Manning, 60, as Archbishop of Los Angeles (TIME, Feb. 2). Many, even in Rome, felt that a more flexible prelate than Mclntyre could have avoided the break. When the nuns started to wear secular clothing in the fall of 1967, McIntyre barred them from teaching in archdiocesan schools. The nuns refused to take up the habit again or to modify other changes-including the elimination of compulsory daily prayer...
Though Israel has been governed by a delicate alliance of secular and Orthodox Jews since its birth as a nation, Jewish religious law-Halakha-enjoys a remarkable prominence in the everyday life of the country. Last week the Israeli Supreme Court handed down a close decision that threatens the status of Halakha and could create a rupture in the ruling coalition. At issue: whether the state may decide...
...uniqueness of the present conflict in American society is that, despite the failings of many earnest evangelists of individual repentance and moral purity, the prophetic conception of the righteous remnant of a nation is sufficiently strong among religious and secular people alike to enable us to participate in the most significant reversal of national policy on moral grounds ever compassed in so relatively short a time, given the unprecedented magnitude of our goal. Never before has such a large proportion of the population of any nation become so actively involved in reversing the policy of its head of state...
CHANGE in a policy that is seen to have been misconceived and to have proved unjust is not defeatism. In the Church it would be called collective repentance. As a secular nation, suffused however with some scriptural ideals as a kind of convenantal constitutional commonwealth, America is the greater for acknowledging through us, an articulate loyal opposition, that we have unwittingly done a great wrong and must be prepared even to make reparations for our mistake. And at the same time, without illusion, we must remain or become realistic about the totalitarian ferocity of the other side as it emerges...