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...especially important for students and faculty at Harvard to know the case of Vida Tabrizi, a former sociologist at the University of Tehran who, according to the Committee for Artistic and Intellectual Freedom in Iran (CAIFI), had been doing research in the rural areas of Iran. For the crime of researching the situation of Iran's peasantry, she was arrested and sentenced to eight years in prison. CAIFI reports that in the past three years Tabrizi has been severely tortured; a large international outcry has apparently put an end to her torture, although she has not been released from prison...
Similar developments took place elsewhere in Italy. Using a combination of Christian moral ideals and political realism, the party shepherded the country through a long period of tricky and often wrenching social change, while managing to maintain social peace. Says Rome University Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti, a former "independent left" Deputy: "If I were a Christian Democrat, I would point out the undeniable facts of recent history-'We took in our arms a country with homes destroyed, with streets in the air, with unemployment between 6 million and 7 million -the worst in Europe, and perhaps in the world. Then...
Finally, there is a widespread belief -or at least a hope-that the Christian Democrats may yet find hidden reserves of political resiliency. "I don't believe that this is a death agony," says Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti. He points out that the party has survived other crises, including, in 1960, a short-lived flirtation with an alliance with neo-Fascists and a brush with civil disorder after the police fired on a crowd of demonstrators. Says Ferrarotti: "These comebacks show that there is an underlying resiliency. With an uncanny ability to reconcile opposing and contrasting positions...
Those figures-and a theory to explain them-appeared this spring in a new book called Catholic Schools in a Declining Church (TIME, April 5) by Priest-Sociologist Andrew Greeley and his colleagues at Chicago's National Opinion Research Center, William C. McCready and Kathleen McCourt. Their conclusion: Humanae vitae created a massive crisis of authority in the church. An ethical mandate from the Pope, promulgated by his bishops, was quietly-if not without some qualms of conscience-rejected by Catholic families. In turn, there were empty pews in church, no more lines at the confessional...
What is the future of the U.S. church? Jesuit Sociologist John Thomas is pessimistic about an end to the drift from the church. "Some like to call the present transition a 'second spring,' " he observes. "I see it as an Indian summer, which comes just before winter." Biblical Scholar John A. Miles, writing in Theology Today, sees Catholics caught in a no-win situation. If the church does try to exert some kind of authority, chances are it will only cause further turmoil and shrinkage. If it does not, it may remain officially large but "steadily weaker...