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Attacked on New Front
Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, left, passes a Capitol Hill guard as he
arrives for a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee. President Nixon’s
nominee for a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, undergoing investiga-
tion on conflict of interest charges, has come under new fire from a group
of Negro Congressmen. Attacking the South Carolina judge’s civil rights
record, the black spokesmen, all members of the House of Representatives,
said his appointment to the high court would mean that the government
intends to "block off a few avenues” now available for legal attack on rac-
ism. (Wide World Photo)
An Approach to Change:
RESPONSE IN CHRIST (A Study of
the Christian Life) by Edward Carter,
S.J. 274 pp. Dayton, Ohio. Pflaum Press.
$6.95
The purpose of this book is the inte-
gration of some contemporary trends and
• insights in theology and psychology with
traditional Western Christian spirituality.
Karl Rahner has said that the believer of
the future will be more experience-orient-
ed, that he will have to start with some
depth experience which is the touchstone
for his conceptualized faith.
OUR AUTHOR seems to be aware of
this modern emphasis on experience and
explicitly treats of ordinary and classical
mysticism in his final chapter. Even if
one does not agree with everything he
says about the subject (and I do not), it
is a sign of being "with it” today to real-
ize that many persons v/ant to hear more
about experiencing God.
Most of what is written in this book is
not very new or original for those who
have read an average amount of pious
literature about the Christian life
("pious” is used here in its first and best
sense). What may be new is the mention
of civil rights, war, a new approach to
obedience and a few other subjects which
have risen to the forefront of modern reli-
gious consciousness.
In view of his purpose, this is what we
should expect, it seems, from an author
whose declared purpose is to blend the
old and the new. Perhaps it is fair to say
that this book speaks best to those raised
in the traditional spirituality and afraid
of the new trends. Our author will prob-
ably calm their fears and assist them
toward understanding and even integrat-
ing a more Christian appreciation of all
RIGHT REVEREND EDWARD T. O'MEARA
NATIONAL DIRECTOR
A 7SION SUNDAY-MONEY OR MORE?
Mission Sunday may be for many just an appeal day for money. And it is —
money is desperately vital for the missions.
Missionari^: cannot be trained and sent to Africa, Asia, or Latin America on
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and clothes cost money. People with diseases need medicine, clinics, hospitals,
and trained medical people. Illiteracy can only be reduced when schools, sup-
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ute ... We have been baptized, confirmed, and partakers together at Christ’s
table ... we profess the communion of saints, and membership in God’s People
— the catholic-apostolic Church. We all share in Christ’s mission, not as outside
benefactors or isolated humanitarians.
A frightful meditation — the spirit of Christ is alive n us only to the degree
we hive His missionary sense.
It is a sense of belonging to others: those we live with and those we don’t. It
is a sense of serving others: the immediate family and the world family. It is a
sense that responds out of love for others and doesn’t count the cost. And it is
the sense of our togetherness with each other in God.
Over 800 mission territories receive direct aid from the Society; many are
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giving be more than just a donation to a worthy cause. For in liturgy and in life
we celebrate the mystery of our faith — Christ lives among us . . . HELP US
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Women Superiors Hear
‘Approval Stamp’ Repeated
(National Register Special)
St. Louis
Half a dozen rules - including "Reli-
gious dress” - are "minimum” require-
ments for approval of a Religious insti-
tute in the Church, a Curia official told
the Conference of Major Superiors of
Women’s Religious Institutes in the Unit-
ed States.
Father Edward Heston, C.S.C., secre-
tary of the Sacred Congregation for Reli-
gious, was the keynote speaker at the
CMSW’s annual meeting. His talk was
closed to all but delegates, but he sum-
marized it later in an interview for St.
Louis Review reporter Margaret Carlan.
The minimum requirements he listed
were quite similar to those contained in
the four points of the Congregation for
Religious’ directives ordering a drastic
revision 01 the experimental renewal pro-
gram adopted by the Immaculate Heart
of Mary Sisters (IHM) of Los Angeles.
The six points Father Heston listed
are: Corporate witness, sharing communi-
ty life, community prayer, Religious
dress, primacy of the spiritual in their
purpose and collaboration with local Ordi-
naries.
SISTER ANITA Caspary, IHM superi-
or, said many CMSW delegates were "dis-
couraged” by the speech’s implications for
programs of renewal undertaken by
American Sisters. Another participant,
however, Sister Mary Luke Tobin, superi-
or of the Sisters of LoreUr said a better
description of the general reaction would
be "concerned.” "I would say that they
(superiors* are concerned.. .” Sister Mary
Luke said. "But 1 also think most of
them feel there are ways of working with
the sacred congregation. You couldn’t say
they were discouraged by the speech, but
1 don’t think they regarded it as discour-
aging.”
She added that the IHMs were assured
of "great support” at the Conference of
Major Superiors, although there was no
formal statement on that controversy is-
sued by the CMSW meeting.
"THERE’S NOTHING new in setting
up those points,” Father Heston told Miss
Carlan, "and in their presentation there
was no great innovation or anything like
that.”
The Ohio-born Vatican official made it
clear the key provision was cooperation
with the local biohoj.. The IHM controver-
sy began with Cardi.ial James Francis
McIntyre’s objections to their renewal
program.
"They’ll (Sisters) have a freer hand in
one.place than they’ll have in another
place,” Father Heston said. "In one place,
they can go very far ahead with the litur-
gy. In other places, unfortunately, they
may be almost held down to pre-council
or very shortly post-Council liturgical
aspects of things.
"But that’s the human element that
Blending of Old and New
creation (including themselves) into their
outlook.
THE BOOK is an attempt to cover
the whole Christian life. Reflections on
the Church, grace, sacramental theology,
sin and the virtues are interspersed with
chapters on the cross, prayer and a few
other subjects. I think that the title ade-
quately prepares one for the centrality of
Christ in this approach, and the author
does well in moving away from a tradi-
tional, static approach in his treatment of
the sacraments and the virtues.
One rather serious flaw in his ap-
proach is the methodology he uses to dis-
cuss the Lord’s Supper in chapter four. It
has long been admitted that the tradi-
tional (i.e., last four centuries) way of
discussing sacrifice in general, and then
moving on to apply one’s conclusions to
the self-oblation of Christ to sh^w how
that fits into the category of s. * ce, is
deficient, because it does not bring out
the uniqueness of God s action in Christ.
It is almost as if Christ had to fit into
our definition of sacrifice, rather than
that we start from his deed and move on
from there. Our author does not seem to
be aware of this new approach, and his
own reminds one of post-Tridentine ap-
proaches. This is doubly remarkable be-
cause the rest of the book is very much
Christocentric as mentioned above.
THERE ARE other points I would
want to take exception to — for example,
his identification of the Church with
Christ without enough qualifications
being made to prevent ecclesiolatry. Much
is being written today on the dangers of
defining the Church as "the extension of
the Incarnation.” But let it suffice simply
to correct a name which is wrongly used
more than once in this book, because he
was a former teacher of mine, now de-
ceased: Secularization Theology was writ-
ten by Robert Richard, not "R. Roberts”
(cf. p. 104, footnote 6, and p. 265).
The final chapter on mysticism will be
of interest to many who think that only
supermen are called to this fullness of
Christian spirituality. The author is at
pains to assist the ordinary believer in
recognizing his own value and the fact
that we are all called to some kind of
mystical life in Christ.
Edward J. Walsh
Champions of Language Purity
Do Battle With Verbal Varlets
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Yet these are picayune faults in view
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we can’t do anything about. We have to
take people as they are and that includes
Ordinaries too.”
THE ISSUE of Religious dress con-
cerns many Sisters’ renewal programs;
wide latitude has been granted in most
experiments — including those of the
IHMs.
Father Heston said he "tried to make”
his presentation of this minimum require-
ment "as general as possible.”
"What I said was that you were ex-
pected to accept the principle while allow-
ing for circumstances which could justifia-
bly warrant laying aside the habit,” he
said.
Father Heston said the requirement
did not mean "you had to have the habit
on from morning till night no matter
what you are doing,” but that "situations
which can justifiably warrant laying
aside the habit” can be "judged according
to the particular circumstances.”
FATHER HESTON said he felt most
conflicts that might arise between bishops
and Sisters in their dioceses can be set-
tled by honest dialogue, even when the
case appears to be one of "inalienable
rights clashing one against the other.”
In response to a question, he said he
saw no obstacle to the possibility of fu-
ture investigations of IHM-type conflicts
involving Sisters as well as bishops in
the investigative role. A pontifical com-
mission that investigated the IHM dis-
pute was made up of three bishops and a
priest from the staff of the Apostolic
Delegation in Washington.
"... I think it’s part of the picture of
things to come,” Father Heston said of
the likelihood of Sisters being named to
such arbitration units. "It’s just part of
the evolution we’re going through and,
as each different facet of the picture
comes up in different circumstances, well
something else comes out, something else
is added.”
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