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...teaching against all three. Others went so far as to question whether some of these sexual activities were morally wrong at all. Last week the Vatican called for a halt to this "new morality,"if not to pastoral compassion. In the most ringing naysaying pronouncement since Pope Paul VI's 1968 anti-birth control encyclical, Humanae Vitae, it condemned "the unbridled exaltation of sex" and called for a return to traditional Catholic doctrine on sexual morals...
Although cast in the genre's typically repetitive structure, "Format VI," one of Brenda Way's two works, ironically undercuts the idea of mathematical/conceptual/schematized dance. Six dancers begin standing in formation upstage. Walking forward as a line, they crouch nearer and nearer to the floor until lying belly-down. Pusing themselves backwards to standing, the group returns to its first formation. After several rounds slight irregularities in the pattern crop up: one dancer fixes her hair, another brushes something off her leg, yet another glances quickly at the ceiling. Several rounds later members of the collective blurt out word associations...
...Class Day Committee, saying it wants an orator with "mass appeal," invites Pope Paul VI to speak at Commencement. The Pontiff wires back: WOULD LOVE TO ADDRESS CLASS OF MCMLXXVI BUT IF GOD HAD INTENDED ME TO SPEAK AT HARVARD HE WOULD HAVE ARRANGED AN HONORARY DEGREE STOP DOMINE DOMINE DOMINE STOP PAUL...
...ecumenism staff, Johannes Gerardus Maria Willebrands has been a skilled, tireless builder of bridges between Roman Catholics and other Christians. Now he faces the equally delicate task of building bridges within his own church. Even while Willebrands retains the presidency of the Secretariat for Christian Unity, Pope Paul VI has appointed the clear-eyed cardinal as the new archbishop of Utrecht and thus the primate of the troubled Dutch Catholic church...
...ever. In Holland some married priests continue to wink at Vatican rules and act as ministers in liberal parishes. Attendance at Mass has plummeted 50% in a decade, and in 1973 only seven diocesan priests were ordained. Willebrands has ranked high in speculation on candidates to succeed Paul VI. If he can unify the Dutch church, he might well deserve a promotion...