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‘Contempt* Writing
Is Warned Against
LONDON (RNS) — A warning
against the “disastrous* re
sults that will occur if the “con
tempt** for Catholic authority
in "new*' writing does not end
was given by Roman Catholic
Archbishop George Patrick
Dwyer of Birmingham in the
Dominican monthly journal,
New Blackfriars,
New Blackfriars is the journ
al whose editor, Father Herbert
McCabe, was recently dismis
sed because he wrote an edi
torial in which he said the Cath
olic Church was “quite plainly
corrupt.” Before he lost his
post, Father McCabe invited
Archbishop Dwyer to comment
on the controversial editorial,
and in the latest issue the arch
bishop does so in the form of a
letter.
"You wrote your piece in an
ger and grief,” said the pre
late. "That was understandable
in the ' circumstances which
prompted it.” • (Father Mc
Cabe’s editorial followed the
renunciation by theologian
Charles Davis of his priesthood
and his Church in protest
against current Catholic teach
ing and dogma.) “But grief
and anger are bad counsellors.
"Unfortunately, it must. be
said that what should have been
an open discussion turned out
an acrimonious and in the liter
al sense of the word, unholy
row.
“You mentioned yourself in
■your editorial, "a rather brutal
. and triumphalist radicalism
which could be just as indif
ferent to persons and to truth as
could episcopal authority.’
"Yes, indeed — except that
episcopal authority has inter
vened hardly at all, whereas
too much of the *new* writ
ing has been in terms of Vio
lence, abuse and contempt for
persons, for the imagined opin
ions of authority and, often
enough, for all the old ways of
thinking, praying and teaching
the faith. Unless this ceases
the results will be disastrous.”
Archbishop Dwyer agreed that
there must be more open dis
cussion within the Church, but
warned Of the dangers involved.
The Vatican Council, he said,
made clear that there must be
more open discussion and much
narrower grounds for authori
tative statements than there had
been in the past.
‘The English bishops,” he
said, "therefore, consciously
and of set purpose, did not at
tempt to inhibit discussion. So,
far from intervening with autho
ritative and disciplinary direc
tions, they left a free field.
Men who died 20 years ago
would hardly believe their ears
if they were alive today.”
But, added the archbishop,
the mind of the Church as ex
pressed in the Council is that
its people should learn to be
responsible Christians. He
pointed out that the hierarchy
has set up a doctrinal and theo
logical commission with these
principles in mind — ‘That
the present ferment in the
Church is the work of the Holy
Spirit; that the ‘new thinking’
in the Church can be both fruit
ful and exhilarating; that the
task of the bishops, is to en
courage new exploration of the
faith whilst preserving the es
sential continuity with the
past.”
GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, MARCH 30,1967 5
SISTER Marie Celine discusses a future meeting with Anne
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"The Changing Shape of Eng
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Guest speaker Dr. Robert F.
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suggested that a liberal, op
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mandatory book list.
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Drexel’s Death Shows You
Still Just Can’t See Us
(ED. NOTE: Every white Catholic should read George Cole-
rrian’s column in the Atlanta Daily World March 26, 1967. It
was written about the dilemma that has arisen over the closing
of Drexel High School. But it speaks to the white doctor, the
white realtor, the white employer, the white man and especially
to white Catholics. Mr. Coleman is a member of St. Paul of the
Cross parish.)
The uncompromising hand of unwritten racism "allows’’ the
wounded Messiah to arise from His tomb for the two thousandth
time today, and in the most uncomfortable area of life’s arena
we cry but yet again, “Look at us ... hear us ... see us ...
understand us ... we too are alive...we too are God’s children."
The straining eyes of humanity ... too tired to glance at the
black faces of twentieth century Negroes? ... refuses to stare
at the Mirror of life, which has beckoned since the first lynching
... since the first racial unfairness forced the Christian faith to
rationalize that God could be loved while the Negro was kept in
his place.
"This is why so many have joined the Muslims ... A white man
is a B—d.l don’t care what God he’s supposed to worship, he
loves his white skin better.”
But this is Easter morning.
Send them a message ... Say to all ... Drexel must live ...
Whites must do as much of this integrating as Negroes ... The
Negro does not want him anymore or less than he is wanted.
But he
justice ...
is rapidly getting into position to demand truth and
And from this most uncomfortable corner where you have cast
us, we cry to you on Easter morning in God’s name ... “Look at
us ... hear us ... see us ... understand us ... We too are alive
... We too are God’s children.”
DELICIOUS AND CHARCOAL STEAK DINNERS
An Infant Victim
school level of
Georgia colleges that sent
representatives to the GCTE
convention were Georgia Tech.,
the University of Georgia, and
Emory University. Georgia
State College, DeKalb Col
lege, and Morehouse College
also participated.
Attention
Given Nuns
By Dutch
HAARLEM, The Netherlands
(NC) — Communities of Sis
ters, the “forgotten groups”
when plans were laid for a na
tional pastoral council to renew
the Church in the Netherlands,
have now been invited to enter
the discussions.
The women Religious of the
Haarlem diocese are now form
ing discussion groups of 10 to
15 members. Their observa
tions about the problems of
Christian living will be placed
alongside those of 13,000 other
discussion groups of priests and
laymen and women, to lay the
groundwork for the coming na
tional council.
Among the questions being put
before them are the possible
need of women priests, celi
bacy for priests, sexual guide
lines, ecumenical activities,
religious education, and the lit
urgical changes that affect their
own lives.
Drexel High began to die early last week, and the mourning
for this splendid six year, old infant victim of reversed racism
was showing a surprising depth that could spell unforeseen prob
lems for all concerned with raising the standards of American
education.
It was Holy Week, and the Roman Catholic Church, like all
other religious faiths, was busy preparing the mixture of sad
ness and joy that we feel at this time of year.
Drexel, organized just as the death knell to school segrega
tion was sounded, had failed to live up to the ideals of deseg
regation in a reverse sense that calls forth feelings of comic —
tragedy that once again shows a keen reason for the advent of
the Messiah, in the first place. Drexel was segregated, and
though 156 children had developed one of the best school spir
its ... had won more thantheir share of prizes and awards ...
.had won basketball games, despite not having a gym, racists
edifices must go ...
Why then the anger? ... Why then the resistance to closing the
doors of an educational structure that could not lend itself to
the bright future when all races of Christ’s children would
worship together ... would study together ... would laugh and run
and play together in the sunshine of Christianity? Why?
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It Was Holy Week
CLEVELAND (NC)—The 39-
member priests’ senate of the
Cleveland diocese proposed a
retirement plan that will
provide pensions ranging from
$350 a month for priests living
in a parish rectory or institution
to $550 a month if they live
elsewhere.
It was Holy Week ... We should have thoughts on our own sins
... Our promises to love our fellowman ... Our hope for a future
life with our beloved God. ...
But Drexel was dying what so many believed to be an unde
served death ... Drexel was dying, not because of her own fault,
but because of the failure of white ,Christians to live up to the
ideals of their religion ... because of the defacto - refusal to
'accept blackmeh’as brothers,"evaS iii thOSworn name of God ...
We talked it out among ourselves ... Something is wrong, we
said ... White people go to church each Sunday morning ... They
pray to God .., They talk about the ideals of Christ, the pleas
of St. Paul ... the love of the Virgin Mary.
They pump millions of dollars into the coffers for religious
education ... They provide the financial backbone for numerous
faiths, and claim they, like Christ, love all people, regardless
of race or religion. But Drexel is still segregated ...
Doors Were
... Numerous white people, living beyond this school's boun
daries, bypassed her and crowded their children into St. Joseph’s
and Pius X ... They were not segregationists, they would tell
you ... Their religion, their archbishop, their Pope forbids this
sort of thing. . .
But Drexel, for the want of a single white student, could not
claim it was an integrated school.
Look around you, people say ... Look at the other churches,
when Bankhead Highway "went colored” ... Look all over the
city, and "see them run.” ... selling a “white church” to
Negroes, and not wondering if the first rains are not tears of
the Christ they were supposed to be praying for ...
Not justDrexel...Not justtheCatholicChurch .,
The Methodists, The Episcopalians .. all of them
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