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2 GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1967
Abortion
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found dangerous in the 1965 bill
on sterilization.*’
Gettinger said although the
word sterilization is not used
in the bill, the reference to
surgical or medical treatment
presumably refers to an act of
sterilization or abortion and its
attendant implications. He said
another section in effect sub
jects any individual to surgical
treatment against his wishes.
Another section states that con
sent is unnecessary "where
an emergency exists."
Glenn Hogan, executive sec
retary of the Georgia Hospital
Association, said the state
needs a consent bill because of
a mobile population. He said
the bill could be written to ex
clude sterilization and abortion.
An Atlanta attorney, Tram
mell Vickery, who advises hos
pitals on legal matters, said
the whole purpose of the bill
was to try and consolidate laws
on consent for minors and in
competents.
‘To see itlabeled in the press
as a sterilization or abortion
bill was a shock," he said.
Vickery said the bill is not in
tended for sterilization or abor
tion.
Rep. Elliot Levitas, a mem
ber of the judiciary committee,
said, "What concerns me about
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the bill is 1 think a man has a
right to decide whether he wants
to undergo surgery."
■ Rep. Willis Richardson who
introduced the bill said as far
as he knew the bill “hasn’t
got the first thing to do with
either sterilization or abor
tions."
Rep. Mike Egan said,' "It
says ‘surgical or medical treat
ment’ doesn't it? The way I
read the bill it legalizes ope
rations on people whether they
are willing or not—and doesn't
say what kind of operations.
Father Noel C. Burtenshaw,
chancellor, said opponents felt
the bill—whatever the intention
of its opponents—could be used
by some to perform steriliza
tion and abortion operations.
He said the legislation was too
broad.
Another opponent, Tony Ziva-
lich said, "Our executive board
of the Teamsters’ Union will
ask our rank and file member
ship to protest the bill vehem
ently, and we’re surprised that
there hasn’t been more public
ity on the bill."
The bill which passed the
House says that a licensed phys
ician, with the consent and ap
proval of two other physicians,
may perform an abortion if it is
apparent that prolongation of
pregnancy will result in serious
physical or mental damage to
the mother or the unborn child.
Rep. Richard Starnes of
Rome, sponsor of the bill, said
that recent discoveries that
German measles in an expec
tant mother can result in the
birth of a deformed child and
the "thalidomide tragedies'*
point to the need for a legal
method of terminating danger
ous pregnancies.
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To Statements
Give Approval
On Doctrine
MARYKNOLL Sister Maria Corona speaks with a girl as she carried her ministry to the inner
city streets of a Harlem neighborhood in New York. The nun was one of a team of Sisters pene
trating the Puerto Rican area with the Christian message. Sister Maria Corona was born in Stock-
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laborers, (RNS Photo)
PHILADELPHIA (RNS)--Ap
proval of the United Presbyter
ian Church’s Confession of 1967
has come from the required
two-thirds of the denomina
tion’s presbyteries, scaling the
next-to-the-last hurdle before
the Confession becomes official
doctrine of the Church.
William P. Thompson, stated
clerk, said that as of March 1
the required 126 of the denom
ination’s 188 presbyteries had
voted in favor of the Confession,
reflecting to-date about a 90 per
cent approval of.the document.
Although some 40 presbyter
ies have not yet voted on the
statement, - the two-thirds vote
approving the Confession sends
the document on to the 1967
General Assembly, where a
simple majority vote will make
it part of the denomination’s
constitution. The Assembly is
scheduled for May 16-24 in
Portland, Oregon.
In commenting on the over
whelmingly favorable response,
Academic Freedom Not Under Bishops
DAYTON, Ohip (RNS)—Academic freedom is a supreme right
of the theologian and the local bishop has no justification to
interfere with the academic activities of a Roman Catholic univer
sity’s theology department, a Jesuit educator told an audience at
the University of Dayton.
Father Neil G. McCluskey,
a visiting professor of educa
tion at the University of Notre
Dame, said;
"The Catholic university
must arm its professors of
theology with the same acade
mic freedom that is accorded
its historians, physicists and
sociologists.
"There is no more academic
justification for the entry by a
local bishop or provincial into
the university discipline of
theology than there is for the
local mayor or governor to in
trude into the field of political
science.”
Speaking on "Vatican II and
Catholic Highe? Education,”
Bathe?- <«McG4usfcey basiedjh^s-
comment on the Decree on the
Apostolate of the Laity. A for
mer associate editor of Ameri
ca magazine, he served as aca
demic vice-president of Gonza-
ga University in Spokane,
Wash., before joining the Notre
Dame faculty.
"New concepts and different
interpretations by scholars,"
Father McCluskey explained,
"are put forth in the academic
world to be examined, tested;
proved, rejected or modified by
a peer group which can chal
lenge or approve because it has
earned authority and compe
tence through scholarship and
learning.”
"The Church no less than so
ciety itself needs a sanctuary
for thought away from out
side pressures. Advance and
development of theological
thought can never take place
unless theologians are free to
“m ov’e forward without external
jraeCKtih% t
"What ever the need that the
bishop or provincial may have:
to exercise vigilance over the
purity of Christian doctrine
taught in secondary schools and
Professor Says
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“If the magisterium is hot
responsive to new problems, it
loses its role as a guide," he
added. Father Roesch indicat
ed that reputable opinions of
theologians, including those of
members of the archbishop's
committee, and those of others
possessing competence may
vary on doctrinal points.
A university spokesman said
a prepared statement incorpor
ating Father Roesch’s talk will
be released soon clarifying the
university’s officialpositionfor
the benefit of the public.
Prof. Casaletto said he had
agreed to a moratorium on pu
blic statements of his views
several months ago "to allow
U.D. to get its house in or
der.” That moratorium is now
at an end, he added.
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parochial schools, the autonomy
of the Catholic university pre
cludes such treatment. Theo
logy is not Christian doctrine.
Or if it is, then theology must
drop its claim to be a science
and its justifications as an aca
demic discipline.”
“In fact, theology then ceases
to have a legitimate claim to be
in the curriculum of the Catho
lic university or college," Fa
ther McCluskey said. "On the
level of higher learning, the
Church's official magisterium
has only an indirect influence,
that is, she speaks authorita
tively to the consciences of her
members in the academic com
munity, just as she does to
the consciences of her mem
bers holding elective office in
political society.
"Her influence in both
spheres is indirect, not direct.
And what of the risk to the pu
rity of theological doctrine? The
risk here is no greater than that
taken by God Himself in create
ing thinking beings. ‘
In his talk Father McCluskey
discussed the changes being
made in Catholic higher educa
tion, including increasingly se
lective admissions practices,
new curricula and degree pro
grams, shifts in ownership away
from religious orders, increas
ed responsibility for lay fa
culty and staff members, and the
challenges of finances.
He stressed the nature of Ca
tholic institutions as civil cor
porations, and said the recogni
tion of this fact was behind many
of the recent steps to enlarge the
role of laymen In governing
them.
"This sense of public trust
does not detract from our con
comitant service to the Church,
but it does broaden it and re
move it completely from any
narrowly parochial or sectarian
understanding," he said.
Father McCluskeytermedthe
future of private higher educa
tion "clouded," and expected
-the prestigious it riohly-er|-
dowed 'institutions-to survive.
Mr. Thompson expressed grati
tude for the "lengthy and care
ful study that has gone into the
presbyteries’ consideration"
and for the "fine spirit that
has been demonstrated by'those
who have taken part in the de
liberations of the past two
years."
He said "the whole Church is
the stronger for the deep think
ing that the Confession of 1967
has inspired.”
Confession '67, so-named be
cause of the hoped-for year of
its adoption, supplements, rath
er than replaces, the great tra
ditional doctrinal statements. If
approved by the General As
sembly — and Church officials
are confident that it will be — it
is to be published in a Book of
Confessions. The book will con
tain nine credal statements,
ranging from the Apostles'
Creed to the Theological Dec
laration of Barmen, in which a
segment of German Protestan
tism in 1936 rejected Nazi con
trol of the church.
The Confession attempts to
state Christian doctrine in con
temporary language and con
cepts. Its overriding theme is
the Christian’s responsibility
for reconciliation -- in per
sonal relations — as well as
racial conflicts and interna
tional affairs. It is the first
credal statement to recognize
the obligations of Christians to
work for social justice and re
conciliation within society.
Work on the Confession of
1967 has been underway for
eight years. It has twice under
gone intensive scrutiny by the
General Assembly, plus a year
of hearings and revisions be
tween the 1965 and 1966 As
semblies.
Other documents to be in-\
eluded in the Book of Confes
sions are the Nicene and Apos
tles’ Creeds from the early
church; the Heidelberg Catech
ism, Scots Confession and the
Second Helvetic Confession
from the Reformation; the 17th
Century Westminster Confes
sion and the Shorter Catechism;
and the Theological Declara
tion of Barmen.
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”1 am not satisfied with Fa
ther Roesch’s stress on the ex
treme difficulty involved in de
termining what the magiste
rium is and what it requires.”
The magisterium cannot be
reduced to something "that
offers little if any reliable gui
dance, serving no practical pur
pose," he said.
The philosophy professor no
ted that the U.D. president paid'
tribute to the "intelligence, sin
cerity and qualifications” of the
members of the archbishop's
committee and that Father
Roesch confirmed that "they
have a right to their opinion."
"Nonetheless,” continued
Prof. Casaletto, "Father
Roesch made it plain that there
was another opinion he prefer
red, which is that of the as yet
anonymous and invisible cano
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