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...Swiss Theologian Hans Kung said flatly that the Pope was wrong, and that the encyclical might lead to a new "Galileo case." One of the experts who signed the statement was Dr. John Noonan of the University of California at Berkeley, whose Contraception is the most thorough study of Catholic teaching on the subject. At a Washington press conference, Noonan suggested that the encyclical may ultimately be regarded as just another mistake of the papacy, like the medieval declarations that usury is a sin, or Pius IX's insistence that the papal states of Italy existed by divine will...
...Mendelsohn, associate professor of the History of Science at Harvard, joined up after Beecher saw him at a conference on the social implications of biology and chemistry, because he felt his historical background would broaden the group. Ralph Potter was pulled in from Divinity School because Ebert wanted a theologian on hand. The first man he asked recommended Potter...
...daughter of a German theologian, niece of another and sister of two more, Elizabeth Harre decided to break the mold slightly and take up social work. After her fiance was killed during World War II, she studied sociology and law, then worked at a women's prison as a lawyer. She soon decided that it was male criminals she really wanted to work with. "Female criminals," she says, "are not the 'poor devil' kind. They are beastly and hysterical." Young men in trouble, however, "are pitiable subjects in need of a mother, a woman or a girl...
...little opportunity to do more than brand the charges "outrageous lies." But the ruling elders of his and other Chicago churches rushed to his defense. Said University of Chicago Theologian Martin Marty: "The John Fry I know is a man of integrity, honesty, grit and guts." Fry's attorney insisted that the real question was how to deal with juvenile gangs, by force or by conversion. "You should be studying this question, not badgering sincere, dedicated clerics who try only to help their deprived fellow man," said he, but McClellan gaveled him down. Lost in the furor...
Henri de Lubac, L.H.D., French Jesuit theologian and peritus (expert) at the Second Vatican Council...