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GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, MAY 9.
REACTION
MIXED
deliberation toward religious
renewal and closer Christian
unity. So far, both the
underground and the church
authorities, though mutually
critical, have hesitated to break
the formal links uniting them.
DR. WILLIAM Osborne, a
sociologist from St. John’s
University, Jamaica, N.Y., spoke
of “the integrative functions of
social conflict” at the Boston
College sessions. If the conflict
between underground and
authority continues, he
predicted, it “theoretically will
move the organized church into
the development of new forms of
Christian life.”
A danger, he said, is a degree
of alienation which would make
the underground “indifferent” to
what happens in the institutional
church. The development of such
indifference “is a real
possibility,” he added, because of
“the ingrained bureaucratic
mind-set of officialdom.”
SISTER TINA Bemal, 23, performed three interpretive solo dances at the opening, Offertory and dose of a Mass concelebrated in St.
Francis Hotel during the national convention of the College Theology Society in San Francisco. Photo shows the nun dancing before the
altar where the Mass was said. Concelebrants were, from left: Father Arthur Latham of the University of San Francisco; Father William
Kelly of Milwaukee; Father Arthur Zabala of the USF; Father Joseph Conwell of Gonzaga University, and Father Joseph Diebels, also of the
USF. All the priests are Jesuits. Sister Tina describes her liturgical dancing as “total prayer - involving body and soul.” The nun joined the
San Francisco Ballet at 15, but left at 18 to become a Religious of the Sacred Heart. She is now attending San Francisco College for Women.
Dialogue-Action Or Words?
Affairs, the New Jersey Council
of Churches, two New Jersey
associations of rabbis and the
New Jersey Region of the
American Jewish Committee. The
third main speaker was Dr.
Franklin Young, director of the
department of religion at
In several areas, however, he
said, generalized changes are
apparently taking place beyond
the control of the authorities. As
examples, he cited the acceptance SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (NC) — The question of whether
of birth control widespread Jewish-Christian dialogue should be by speech or by action was the
among Catholics and the growing theme that ran through the talks and discussions at a Conference on
tendency of the younger Interfaith Dialogue sponsored by Catholic, Protestant and Jewish
generation to consider Sunday organizations at Seton Hall University here.
Mass attendance non-compulsory.
Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum,
AN EXAMPLE of the director of interreligious affairs
influence which can be exerted f° r ihe American Jewish
by the underground was Committee, was generally in
contained in the criticism of the f avor of the action approach,
movement by i Bishopi Shannon, saying that the dialogue must
Even as he found fault witMhe avoid becoming a convenient
liturgical experiments of the conspiracy on the part of
movement, Bishop Shannon did middle-class whites to buffer Princeton University,
not explicitly call for them to be themselves against the realities of
ended but rather to be made the inner city.
public and integrated into the In his talk, Father Flannery
overall church community And Father Edward H. Flannery, referred to statements that the
in a passage which seemed executive secretary of the U.S. Ghristian-Jewish dialogue had
directed at higher Catholic Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat for died in the wake of last June’s
authorities, he called for greater Catholic-Jewish Relations, said six-day war between Israel and
freedom ' for open liturgical l h at while he would be the last to the Arab nations. He said that it
experiment. cut off action in the realm of was not so much a matter of its
social justice and charity, he also dying, but of its not having been
William Birmingham, editor of that Jews and Christians tried yet.
Cross Currents magazine, voiced could not effectively present a
the feeling of many in the common front to society until The author of “The Anguish
underground when he predicted the y have straightened out their of the Jews,” a study of 2,000
that eventually the movement °wn affairs. years of anti-Semitism, Father
Flannery said that the
The conference, held at Seton misunderstandings of both Jewish
Hall’s Student Center, was and Christian positions during
co-sponsored by the Newark last June’s war indicated that the
Archdiocesan Commission for dialogue must be reborn on a
Ecumenical and Interreligious more intellectual level. “The
trouble in the past was that it was mentioning specifically the
conducted only on a sociological massacres in Biafra, African state
level,” he said. “Now we must that broke away from Nigeria. He
consider the question of the said people were becoming
Jewish-Christian relations de-sensitized to what was
theologically, rethink positions happening in the inner city, that
that Christians have for too long both Christian and Jewish leaders
have lost their sense of prophetic
witness.
Dr. Young said that the
dialogue demands some measure
will be integrated into the
structure. This integration, he
said, will give people “the option
of going either to a traditional
parish church or joining a smaller,
more intimate free church.
taken for granted.”
Father Flannery said
Christians must ask themselves
what they have to learn from
Judaism. He pointed out several 0 f self- understanding on the part
areas: Judaic emphasis on Q f all three groups. He denied
monotheism, the healthy that the movement toward
naturalism of the Jews, the dialogue comes as a defensive
essential social nature of both gesture against the spread of
Judaism and Christianity. secularism, saying rather that it
results from a radical
Rabbi Tanenbaum said that self-criticism “which has been
the last nine months have thrust upon us as a result of a
transformed Jews here and consciousness of failure of
throughout the world into a new mission, not mission in the sense
realization of what the state of of conversion, but rather in
Israel means to them. He noted bearing witness.”
that three wealthy members of
the American Council on
Judaism, an anti-Zionist group,
had resigned last June and, for
the first time, given substantial
donations to Israeli relief.
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The rabbi also denied the
report that there had been
insufficient response from U.S.
Christians to Israel’s ordeal. He
pointed to polls which showed
that a heavy majority of
Americans favored specific
positions such as Israel’s right to
send its ships through the Suez
Canal, as well as to statements,
such as that issued by Father
Flannery and Msgr. John M.
Osterreicher, director of Seton
Hall’s Institute of
Judaic-Christian Studies, backing
Israel’s rights.
But Rabbi Tanenbaum also
decried the insensitivity of all
U.S. religious groups to the
terrors taking place today
throughout the world,
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