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...central figure, Jean Cardinal Daniélou, was an internationally famous Jesuit theologian, a prince of the Roman Catholic Church, a personal friend of Pope Paul VI, and an honored "immortal" of the French Academy. After he died of an aneurysm one afternoon in May, supposedly on the street, Daniélou, 69, was lavishly eulogized by the French episcopacy, the Jesuit Superior General and the Vatican...
...signers is Catholic Theologian Daniel C. Maguire of Marquette University, author of the recent book Death by Choice. In an accompanying essay, Maguire points out that in spite of the widespread notion that Catholics are totally opposed to active euthanasia, or what he plainly calls mercy killing, he is not the only Catholic theologian who believes it may be justified in some cases...
...recent years, there has been an exodus of well-known names from Union, climaxed last winter by the retirement of Theologian Paul Lehmann. Replacements in theology are hard to come by because of Union's new stress on hiring blacks and women: there are simply not enough of either qualified for the posts. Moreover, the faculty has been sharply cut along with the student body...
...doctrine is fuzzy, subject to disparate interpretations and all too easily perverted. But Graham is groping wildly in connecting situation ethics and the Watergate coverup. Says Theologian Joseph Fletcher, author of Situation Ethics: the New Morality: "It is a misinterpretation. Those involved in Watergate weren't conducting themselves according to situation ethics. They didn't weigh the moral options. Their one guiding principle was to win at any price. Graham knows or ought to know better...
Died. Jean Cardinal Daniélou, 69, eminent French Jesuit theologian; of a heart attack; in Paris. Son of a radical Socialist Cabinet minister, Daniélou entered the Society of Jesus in 1929 and became known as a dynamic liberal Catholic intellectual. As a peritus, or theological adviser, to Vatican Council II in the mid-1960s, he was considered a moderate voice in church affairs; by decade's end he was a cardinal and an outspoken champion of papal authority. He came to deplore the "false concept of liberty" that he said resulted from a misconception...