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...apology to a ranking member of the Papal Curia, Archbishop Giovanni Benelli. Arrupe's letter expressed regret for an article in the London Observer by Father Peter Hebblethwaite, S.J., editor of the English Jesuit magazine, The Month. Hebblethwaite had attacked Benelli, who is considered one of Pope Paul VI's closest confidants and advisers, as being "concerned with prestige and pomposity at a time when many Christians are trying to make the church a simpler, more fraternal and welcoming place...
Mead subsequently modified her views, and other anthropologists and linguists came along with different notions. Noam Chomsky contends that the way people learn languages and the structure of those languages are basically the same the world over. Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French structuralist, gathered thousands of myths from different cultures and demonstrated that beyond their great diversity were even greater similarities. At the deepest level, believes Lévi-Strauss, there is an implacable pattern ingrained in the human intellect and this pattern has not changed since primitive times...
...humanists and others who believe that both man and society are perfectible, Lévi-Strauss extends small comfort. "Humanism has failed," he believes. "It has lent itself to excusing and justifying all kinds of horrors. It has misunderstood man. It has tried to cut him off from all other manifestations of nature." He is gloomy about the population explosion, the pollution of air and water and "the destruction of living species, one after another." Like many another student of past societies, he admires those primitive cultures that struck a balance between man and his natural environment...
...sudden but not unexpected move last week, Pope Paul VI named 30 new cardinals whom he will elevate to the office in a special consistory March 5. The new Roman Catholic princes will bring the number in the College of Cardinals to a record high of 145. Three of the new cardinals are Americans: Archbishop Luis Aponte Martinez, 50, of San Juan-the first Puerto Rican cardinal ever; Archbishop Humberto S. Medeiros, 57, of Boston; and Archbishop Timothy Manning, 63, of Los Angeles. The new appointments take up the electoral slack left in the college when Pope Paul decreed that...
...Catholic sacrament of extreme unction has long had an ominous meaning: the patient was virtually given up for dead. Those whose condition was not in fact so grave could be given a nasty turn by the sight of the priest with his vial of holy oil. Now Pope Paul VI has changed all that. The sacrament, called "the anointing of the sick" since Vatican II, will hereafter be used not only for those who are in imminent danger of death, but also for those who are seriously but not mortally...