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1 o the GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12,1968
Chaplain’s Association
Sees Military Chaplaincy
Under Serious Attack Today
SAlGON-Military chaplains in
Vietnam were told here by a
leader of their professional
association that the basic idea of
a paid chaplaincy for the U.S.
armed services is under powerful
attack.
Dr. Karl B. Justus, executive
director of the Military Chaplains
Association, said the most serious
threat is coming from Protestant
groups. He mentioned a challenge
that came recently from his own
colleagues in the Methodist
ministry.
He said;. “The whole idea of
the military chaplain is under
attack and the greatest threat is
coming from the Protestant
denominations themselves. Four
years ago the American Civil
Liberties Union started to
question the constitutionality of
the military chaplaincy. The last
Methodist General Chapter voted
on the question and the proposal
to abolish the military chaplaincy
was just beaten. It is disturbing
that the question should have
reached the floor for a vote at
all.”
Dr. Justus continued:
“Nowadays there are people who
say there is no need for the
military chaplain, that the civilian
clergy can take care of the
military. That’s not true. You
can’t send civilian clergy in to
battle, they’re not prepared for
the military system and they
can’t identify with the military.
It was tried in the First World
War when some YMCA people
were sent but it did not work.”
Dr. Justus expects the attacks
on the military chaplaincy to be
increased. “So we have formed,”
he said, “a committee on
church-state relations to examine
the question if military chaplains
are legal and constitutional. We
have contacted ten eminent
constitutional lawyers who are
prepared to come to the defense
of the chaplaincy when the
attacks come.”
He added about the foes to
the chaplaincy, “if they were able
to get prayer prohibited in public
schools they will certainly try to
get the military chaplaincy
abolished.”
Dr. Justus sees a further threat
to the military chaplaincy in
present attitudes in the United
States reflected in anti-war,
anti-draft and peace-at-any-price
movements.
Dr. Justus, a former Navy
chaplain, came to Vietnam to
present Military Chaplains
Association charters to two units,
the first overseas charters granted
by the association. One was
granted to the Long Binh post
near Here, the other to Quang
Tri-Thua .Thin near the
Demilitarized Zone.
Notre Dame President
Cites Causes For
Disillusionment Of Young
EAST LANSING, Mich. (NC) — The American dream has turned
into a nightmare for many of the nation’s young persons, Father
Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre
Dame, told a Michigan State University fall term commencement
audience here.
Father Hesburgh, a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission
since its inception in 1957, said the frustration felt by disillusioned
students had legitimate causes, one of them racism.
“Black Americans, they
found, generally live in the worst
houses, in the worst sections of
our cities, and so were fated to
continue to attend the worst
schools which are located there,
so that their frustration and lack
of social mobility upward seems
ever circular and inevitable,” he
said (Dec. 7).
Vietnam is another issue
raised by the young which
demands attention, Father
Hesburgh said. “Too few of the
elders really debated the issues or
drew back from the mounting
cost in lives and dollars,” he
charged.
Few really asked about the
morality of our national course in
spending $30 billion a year
tearing up a plot of land and
people, nowhere near the size of
California, while the whole wide
world of dire human need and
misery merited only $2 billion
annually in critical assistance.”
Vietnam has triggered the U.S.
campus revolt, the
priest-educator stated. Some
students found in the university
“the root cause of their
alienation from an establishment
or a society that they judged to
JESUITS EXPELLED FROM IRAQ The first group of Jesuit priest-educators expelled last
month from Iraq were greeted on their arrival (Nov. 25) in Boston by the New England
Jesuit Provincial, the Very Rev. William Guindon (second from right). From left, they
are Father Frederick W. Kelly, S.J., Roslindale, Mass.; Father Frederick G. McLeod,
S.J., Dorchester, Mass.; Father Leo J. Guay, S.J., Laconia, N.H.; and Father John P.
B. Banks, S.J., Milton, Mass. They had taught until their expulsion at Al-Hikma Uni
versity, Baghdad. (NC Photos)
Symposium
Planned
WORCESTER, Mass. (NC)
A theological symposium on
“The Future of Christianity” will
be held at Holy Cross College
here Dec. 14 in conjunction with
the school’s 125 th anniversary
celebrations.
Speakers will include Dr.
Martin E. Marty, professor of
church history at the University
of Chicago divinity school; Dr.
Frederick Ferre, chairman of the
philosophy department at
Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa.,
and Father Bernard J. F.
Lonergan, S. J., philosopher and
theologian at Regis College,
Willowdale, Ont. The moderator
will be Father Robert O. Johann,
S.J., philosophy professor at
Fordham University.
be impersonal, often irrelevant,
sometimes immoral, and
generally more difficult to move
than a cemetery,” he said.
But the campus revolt holds
out an opportunity, Father
Hesburgh declared. “The world
needs energy, imagination,
concern, idealism, dedication,
commitment, service and, with all
its problems, gets all too little of
these great human qualities from
the older generation.
The world also needs
reasonable criticism and peaceful
protest as a constant spur to
progress and for the redress of
many horrible inequities and
injustices...The world needs to
change its structures, too,
because, obviously, many of
them are not producing the
climate in which justice is
available to all, not to mention
opportunity, which is even more
important to the young.”
While much of his address was
a pointed defense of young
persons, he criticized activists
who, he said, hamper their future
effectiveness by choosing
“involvement” over intellectual
development.
APPOINTED director of the
new Department of Christian
Formation of the U.S. Cath
olic Conference, Washington,
D.C., is Father Raymond A.
Lucker, superintendent of
schools and director of the
Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine in the archdiocese
of St. Paul-Minneapolis. (NC
Photos)
“Students who like to learn
by doing should give their elders
credit for having learned
something by what they have
done, and it is not all bad,” he
commented. “The Peace Corps,
the Poverty Program, the Teacher
Corps, VISTA, new civil rights
legislation, the disarmament
treaty, tutoring programs in the
inner city, the . conquest of
hunger — all these were devised
and launched by the elders, even
though most of these programs
were given new life and brighter
spirit by the young.”
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