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2 GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY MARCH 30, 1967
Truth Requires Risk
Of Mistakes: Dewart
PITTSBURGH (RNS) A
Canadian lay theologian sug
gested here that ‘ the whole
post-conciliar unhappiness of
the (Catholic) Church may not
be an excessive price to pay
for a realization that the Chris
tian church is not a society for
the Perservation of past truth
and the avoidance of future er
ror.”
He declared that, on the con
trary, the, unhappiness may be a
blessing if the resultant rea
lization is that the church is "a
collective Christian community
endeavor freely dedicated to the
cultivation of truth — and end
to which it converts all it pos
sesses, including, upon oc
casion, error itself,”
The theologian was Leslie
Dewart, associate professor of
philosophy at St. Michael's Col
lege, Toronto. He made his re
marks in keynoting the 13th
annual convention of the Socie
ty of Catholic College Tea
chers of Sacred Doctrine.
Dr. Dewart stressed that er
ror “is not an abortive is-
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here.
Recently, a group of youths
attacked a religious center ope-
rater by members of the Spiri
tual League of the Mother of
God of Montserrat. The attack
resulted in the injury of two
girls and damages amounting
to nearly $2,000» The league
has fieen described as “spi
ritually linked” to the Benedic
tine abbey of Montserrat.
sue of knowledge, but a factor
in its development.” He de
scribed error, simply, as “the
ordinary way in which we learn
and process in truth,*’ and he
warned against “unwarranted
pessimism” in the facing of
error.
“Error has a most important
and valuable role in the develop
ment of truth,” Dr. Dewart
commented. He said that know
ledge cannot progress without
making mistakes, and added that
“'if we continue making mis
takes we will proceed in know
ledge.”
Dr. Dewart stressed these
points:
—That the life of the in
tellect requires freedom not
only for its intellectual pei>-
fection, but also for the per
fection of a believeing intel
lect;
—That growth in truth re
quires free creativity of the
mind;
—That the errant person has
rights and therefore must be
accorded freedom of thought.
Dr. Dewart rejected old,
hard-line interpretations of the
principle that error has no
rights, and said that restriction
of intellectual freedom on these
grounds is deplorable, whether
it occurs in the Church or on
the campus.
He scored “the impru
dent casting out of dissidents,”
saying that an "enforced con
formity is disastrous.” He saw
many of the problems "surfac
ing today” in the Church to be
the result of many of the con
formities of the last hundred
years.
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NEWMAN Club boys from the University of Georgia have joined hands with the Verona Fathers of
Washington, Georgia, to work at restoring the historical graves in the Locust Grove Cemefery.
Top, broken headstones in the cemetery, center, the work begins, and bottom, workers take a break
for food and refreshment. In 1790 several Catholic families of English descent from Maryland
settled near Locust Grove. They established the first Catholic church in Georgia and built a log
church building in 1792® Father John LeMoin was sent from Baltimore as the first pastor. After
1860, a church was constructed in Sharon, Georgia, as the Locust Grove location had become too
remote. Today, only a few headstones remain as a reminder of the beginning of Catholicism in
the state. This is what the Newman Club and the Verona Fathers hope to restore.
Bishop Primeau:
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“Clergy, religious and lay
men alike, we are all so new at
this business of working with
one another as essential equals
— as members of the People of
God — that we tend at times to
withdraw nervously into old
patterns of-behavior — author
itarian on the one hand, sub
missive on the other — which
are no longer adequate to' the
new insights and needs of our
day,” he said.
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Bishop Primeau touched on
the subject of secularization of
Catholic educational institu
tions and challenged the notion
that academic freedom and pur
suit of truth are impossible in a
church-related school.
“There is no reason for the
Catholic educator to Offer apol
ogies for his commitments or
to accept the hoary old notion
that a Catholic cannot be a true
intellectual,” he said. “We
have our commitments, others
have theirs.
“And those who demand ab
solute non-commitment as a
prerequisite for the intellectual
life are, it seems to me, de
manding an impossibility whicji
never has existed and never
, will, and which, were it by some
miracle to be realized, would
produce only intellectual steril
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ingly • serving a middle class
and upper middle class school
population,” he said.
“In the realm of integration,
a great unfinished task lies
before us,*’ he added.
Job On
Among the educational ex
periments which Msgr. Donohue
asked Catholic educators to
undertake were:
-city-suburban exchanges,
with cooperative ventures
between rich and poor parishes.
Schools
flows automatically in middle
class homes,” Msgr. Donohue
said.
To meet these challenges,
Msgr. Donohue urged the edu
cators to be “more vigorous”
in seeking foundation grants.
Msgr. Donohue revealed that
a school - racial survey under
taken by the U.S. Catholic Con
ference last fall found that in
some neighborhoods well-inte
grated Catholic schools have
been a “significant force” in
keeping whites in the city. He
nqted that in Chicago, where
only 6% of the Negro population
is Catholic, 7.6% of the Negroes
attend archdiocesan schools.
“But more commonly we find
that our schools—like the public
schools—reflect segregated
housing patterns. We have been
accused by some of promoting
segregation. This charge is
false,’’ Msgr. Donohue said,
‘‘But we must not let our schools
become refuges for whites be
cause of inaction on the racial
front,” he stated.
The priest said he planned
to ask each Catholic school
superintendent to set up an ad
hoc diocese-wide committee to
consider what role the parochial
school system might play in
reducing racial isolation in the
schools. Each committee will
include representatives of the
diocesan school board, public
school officials, civil rights
leaders and “members of other
faiths with an interest in the
problem.”
Their reports and rec
ommendations, Msgr. Donohue
said, will serve as a prelude
to the 1968 conference.
On the subject of educational
innovations, Msgr. Donohue
urged Catholic schools to take
the lead since “we have a
freedom from political pres
sures that our public school
counterparts often do not enjoy.
“We are not as bound by red
tape. We have the freedom to
reach into the home without
fear of criticism, whereas the
public school official in the
same posture is often looked
upoif 1 ' as dn<:roacIiitig‘'" Upon
privacy, he stated; 51 t'W'tda-
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—giving a major policy
making voice to parents in
neighborhood schools located in
ghettos.
—giving bright youngsters a
“free rein” in achieving edu
cational goals, with as much
tutoring and counseling as they
need from teachers.
— “meaningful” programs of
sex education. Msgr. Donahue
noted that some Catholic
schools have already taken a
lead in this area.
—a type of nursery school
program which would reach de
prived youngsters at the
earliest possible age:
Citing the “formidable” size
of the Catholic school enter
prise, Msgr, Donohue noted that
the Church has schools from
Watts to Westchester, from
Harlem to Grosse Point. He
.said that one in every seven
pupils in the nation is now edu
cated in Catholic schools,
despite a recent leveling off in
the growth rate. He also noted
that laymen are playing an in
creasingly dominant role at all
levels of Catholic education.
TEACHER SWAP
GREENBURG, Pa. (RNS)—
Two communities of Roman
Catholic nuns will launch a
teacher-exchange program in
September.
“How natural it should be
for us to initiate programs
that extend the influence of
the school and the parish into
the home in new forms to reach
even infants, and to help parents
provide the intellectual stimu
lation for their children that
Designed to bring about rac
ial integration at the faculty
level in elementary schools,
the program includes the Sis
ters of Charity Seton Hill from
Greensburg, and the Sisters of
the Holy Family, a Negro com-'
munity of New Orleans.
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