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These qualities apparently include a reputation for scholarship, in addition to administrative acumen-in Hume's case, earned in the limited sphere of Ampleforth. There he has headed since 1963 a community of 130 scholastics, as well as a distinguished boarding school. While Heenan and most of the other bishops have been ethnic Irish, Hume is an upper-middle-class Englishman with useful Establishment connections. No bookworm, he is also a fitness buff devoted to jogging and squash...
...Georgia, and a huge amusement park outside Atlanta, a city that has resolved its existential dilemmas through relentless financial growth and self-promotion. Everyone in Atlanta is happy and young, pink-cheeked and double-knitted, a little overweight. You are reaching the outer limits of the Harvard-Eastern sphere of influence. You are entering Alabama. Your 1-95 days have come...
...Church and State in public life (Nixon's White House services?) would deem it right to settle theological questions in court, bringing back echoes of Constantine. Willie and Stringfellow's argument is untenable and dangerous to a free society. For the State to impose secular law in the religious sphere is at the root of an oppressive society in which man's spirit is made captive to the civil order. The logic of their position leads them to break down the exclusive nature of the church and its right to decide who can be a member. Possibly quotas should...
...curates, after all?--the clergy and the Church are perfectly suited to the theme that runs through Power's stories. Powers's main concern is the lack of defined relationships in a world of change and ever-increasing technology and the Church's structured hierarchy is an ideal sphere for examining the breakdown of traditional relationships...
...this is, to be sure, extremely hard to change. It is not, however, totally out of the sphere of human influence. It is not a process whose progression we should watch bemusedly, having fun in the meantime. Hougan's world may well be, as he so fervently hopes, one of the seventies, glib and liberal-sounding and, underneath, totally embracing, even celebrating, things as they are. If that's the case, it's more a reflection on the mood of the age than on its realities. As long as the state of the world means anything to us, the kinds...