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...speeding, passing without sufficient visibility, driving while intoxicated. In sum, concludes Renard, the Christian must remember that operating an automobile is a human activity that must be "in harmony with our vocation as a spiritual being." To drive home his point, he quotes an auto-age version of the Sermon on the Mount...
...stand-up sermon, many church men agree, is a dying art. But what should take its place? According to Dominican Father Anthony Schillaci, the answer is the mixed-media homily. A colleague of Communications Theorist Marshall McLuhan at Fordham University, Father Schillaci presented his vision of the sermon of the future to a meeting in Toronto last week of the Catholic Homiletic Society. "If you see anything you don't like," he calmly warned the audience, "boo or hiss or knock the guy next to you off his chair. This is intended to stir up all kinds of emotions...
Reaction to the mixed-media spiritual message was understandably mixed. "There is no question that the multimedia sermon is the coming thing," said the Rev. Edward Theisen of Milwaukee. "To appeal to the whole man, which multimedia purports to do, provides an answer." But many of the preaching experts were decidedly cool. Some questioned whether audiovisual imagery can actually say more about Christian faith than an inspired verbal sermon. Still others felt that Schillaci's superhip technique was a lot more appropriate to a college campus than an urban congregation...
...make failure to carry your draft card with you illegal. In that case, collecting draft cards would be no crime at all. In addition, the five's lawyers contended during the hearings that turning in cards is a form of "symbolic speech" and thus as protected as a sermon or an address. But the concept of symbolic speech--at least to this date--has received a decidedly unsympathetic welcome in the courts...
...flavor to this year's ceremony. Pope Paul chose twelve students from the underdeveloped "third world," at tending Rome's Pontifical Urban University, to share in the ritual. One seminarian was from North Viet Nam, another from South Korea; four were Africans. Afterward, in a ten-minute sermon, the Pope spoke of the universal need for fraternity. "A new current of love must turn enemies into friends, strangers into brothers," he said. "Love is still shrunken and confined in side borders of customs, interests and selfishness which must be widened. Love is the distinguishing sign of the authentic...