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...recent article entitled "Catholic Ministry at Harvard: the Rise and Fall of Vatican II" grossly misrepresented the present campus ministry. Although an admirable attempt was made to evaluate objectively the very complex Catholic situation at Harvard, the author has fallen prey to judging a situation without sufficient knowledge. To equate the present ministry with the fall of Vatican II is an injustice which deeply hurts those of us who have tried to create a Catholic community at Harvard--students and chaplains alike...
Perhaps the most serious error by the author was to separate the analysis of the campus ministry from the analysis of the student body's concerns. No reference was made to the opinions of the students concerning the ministry. As Vatican II so strongly emphasized, the role of the laity is vital to the life of the Church. We, as students, have seen our role as committed Christians to consist of active participation in the campus ministry. In fact, it is because our ministerial activities in the undergraduate organization have been so closely intermeshed with the activities of the chaplains...
...affirmation of God's pledge to us and our pledge to the task of bringing this Kingdom to fulfillment. As in the examples of Mother Theresa of Calcutta and Dorothy Day, prayer inspires our social concern and fills us with the vision of a Promise. If the Documents of Vatican II in some way de-emphasize the inter-relation of piety and social concern, we would like to be so informed...
...Kelley adds, "The three of us and people we served were Vatican II inspired Catholics and I guess we were a bit naive in the way we thought we could effect change...
...past, Berrigan has several times been reprimanded by the Roman Catholic church for his use of illegal means of social protest, and has even been threatened with expulsion from the priesthood. Berrigan characterizes his current relationship with the Vatican as "an uneasy truce." He maintains, however, that his relations with the Jesuit hierarchy to which he is much more immediately responsible are excellent...