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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, May 13,1982
IVAN ILLICH
Modern
BY TRACY EARLY
NEW YORK (NC) -
Modern society has turned
men and women into
genderless economic units
and so created an obstacle
to acceptance of the
Gospel, said social critic
Ivan Illich in the annual
John Courtney Murray
lecture.
Building on his earlier
institutional critiques,
particularly his books
“Deschooling Society”
and “Medical Nemesis,” he
said the turning of love
into professional care
could occur only after
community life had
broken down.
At this point, he said,
the earlier pattern of
sharing whatever food was
available gave way to the
idea of “scarcity” and the
idea that individuals must
compete at the expense of
other individuals.
‘ ‘ That particular
individual dependence that
constitutes sexism is
Society
possible only where,
genderless women are
forced to compete with
genderless males on almost
every activity or task,” he
said. “And everywhere
these theoretical female
equals are handicapped.”
Illich delivered the
Murray lecture, which
commemorates Jesuit
Father Murray, a noted
theologian who died in
1967. It is funded by the
Henry Luce Foundation
and Luce’s widow, Clare
Boothe Luce.
The appearance of Illich
constituted a re-emergence
of sorts into an
ecclesiastical context after
his absence from such
settings for several years.
Bom in Vienna in 1926,
he came to the United
States in 1951 and became
a priest of the New York
Archdiocese. He later
served in Puerto Rico and
then at CIDOC, a research
center in Cuernavaca,
Mexico.
Loses Gender Distinction
He said the Murray
lecture was the first
speaking invitation he had
accepted from a
church-related
organization in 14 years,
though he has occasionally
participated in seminars at
Fordham University.
Illich’s lecture drew an
audience of several
hundred people, packing
the rooms at the Harvard
Club where it was held.
From 1979 to 1981,
Illich taught medieval
history at the university of
Kassel in West Germany.
He has now joined a newly
formed Institute of
Advanced Studies, located
in West Berlin and
modeled on the similarly
named institute at
Princeton University.
In his lecture, Illich said
it was while examining a
text on a medieval famine
that a student called his
attention to a sentence
which stimulated his
insight into genderless
society.
He said he perceived
then that “the bonds of
humanity were broken
because three things
happened: people began to
eat roots and human flesh,
women did men’s work
and man became wolf to
man.”
“To me,” Illich
continued, “it clearly says
that the emergence of
modern individuals acting
under the assumption of
scarcity was an event
parallel to the breaking of
society’s most
fundamental taboos and to
the loss of gender.”
“Only when the
community and its culture
had broken down could
the individual come into
being,” he said, “the
individual which since
Hobbes, Locke, Smith and
Marx we assume to be
human: possessive like a
wolf, without taboos and
without gender. This triple
loss is constitutive of the
person around whom the
modern institutions of
care are built.”
Though gender
distinctions in
pre-industrial society were
expressed differently in
various geographical areas,
Illich said, a fundamental
difference always existed.
“From earliest youth,
boys and girls grow into
their gender,” he said. “By
the time they are weaned,
they use unmistakably gr
different gestures.”
“Where men and
women, from infancy,
grasp the world from
different sides and shape it
by different tools, they
grow into two different
models of conceptualiza
tion of their reality,” Illich
went on. “They speak in
different voices and
rhythms with different
words and often differing
syntax about two
different, though
complementary, sets of
reality.”
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Ecumenical Exhibit Opens
Charismatic Renewal Conference May 28-30
“Renew The Face Of
The Earth” - a prayer
taken from the Mass of
Pentecost - will be the
theme this year for the
annual National
Conference on the
Charismatic Renewal in
the Catholic Church.
The 1982 conference at
Notre Dame University in
South Bend, Indiana, is
expected to draw larger
than normal crowds as the
conference, celebrated
Pentecost weekend May
28-30, marks the 15th
anniversary of the Catholic
charismatic renewal. It is
also the 20th anniversary
of the Second Vatican
Council, which Pope John
XXIII convoked in 1962
with a prayer to the Holy
Spirit asking the Lord to
renew the Church as in a
new Pentecost.
Bishop Joseph
McKinney, auxiliary
bishop of Grand Rapids,
Michigan, Father John
Bertolucci from the
faculty of the University
of Steubenville in Ohio,
Sister Ann Shields, R.S.M.,
Kevin and Dorothy
Ranaghan, Father George
Montague, S.M. and other
leaders in the renewal
nationally and worldwide
will be speakers at the
conference.
The conference opens
on Friday, May 28 and
closes Sunday afternoon,
May 30. Last year some
10,000 people gathered
for the weekend, which
includes talks organized
around the conference
theme, prayer and worship
sessions and celebrations
of the liturgy.
A bus to Notre Dame is
being arranged through the
Archdiocesan Servants
Committee so those
attending the conference
can travel with others
from the Atlanta area.
Further information about
the bus can be obtained by
calling John Gaynoe of St.
Patrick’s parish in
Norcross at 262-3500 or
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn.
(NC) -- The ecumenical
exhibit presenting
Christianity as “The
Power” at the 1982
World’s Fair opened on
May 2, a day after
President Ronald Reagan
gave the address at the
grand opening ceremonies
for the fair.
The Rev. Harold Bales,
a United Methodist
minister who is executive
director of the ecumenical
exhibit, said a faulty air
conditioner, a defective
film projector and the
presence of Secret Service
agents clearing the area
before the president’s visit
prevented the exhibit from
opening on schedule.
Father Hoffman—
(Continued from page 1)
And they are getting
vocations. The Cuban
government seems most
happy to have the sisters.”
However, teaching the
faith to the younger
generation must be done
at church and in the home.
It is a big challenge for the
Cuban people. Will they
keep their faith and pass it
along to their children?
Father Hoffman only says,
“It is too soon to know.”
What about opposition
to Castro? “Some people I
spoke with,” says the
returned missionary, “say
it is there. Dynamite was
found recently under some
platform where Fidel was
to speak. So there is an
underground. How strong,
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no one knows.”
Father Hoffman has
some comments on the
famous Cuban dictator.
“They say Fidel was more
than willing to say he was
a Marxist during the
revolution but that, in
fact, he is simply an
opportunist. And after he
is gone, who knows what
will result. No one is
sure.”
Looking around the
famous city of Havana,
once the playground of
the Caribbean, Father Bill
Hoffman could see the
economic shortages and
sufferings endured by the
people. “They seem to
have concentrated on
having good medical
attention for their people.
And they export doctors
and medics of all kinds to
the Third World countries.
Of course, the message of
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taken also. But that is the
contribution the Cuban
government wants to
make.”
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become director of the
Spanish Apostolate for the
Archdiocese of Atlanta.
Would he ever like to
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“Cuba would be an
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And has he any plans to
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“After we make a few
adjustments with the
programming, it’s going to
work,” Mr. Bales said.
Bishop Jeames D.
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Tenn., is a member of the
governing committee for
the Christian exhibit,
which is sponsored by 13
Christian denominations.
There was no special
ceremony for the opening
of the ecumenical exhibit,
which is contained in a
building within the fair’s
Hall of Lifestyle and
Technology, the large
central exhibition hall.
A vivid display of
sounds, lights and images
put on by special
audio-visual devices and
theatrical techniques, the
ecumenical exhibit
presents Christianity as
“The Power” bringing
order and hope to life.
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L-shaped building
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fewer. A volunteer worker
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visitors will visit the
ecumenical exhibit.
As they leave the
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receive literature from the
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School Prayer—
(Continued from page 1)
of school prayer mean well
in their emphasis on
religious tolerance, school
prayer can help “reawaken
America’s religious and
moral heart.”
“How can we hope to
retain our freedom
through the generations if
we fail to teach our young
that our liberty springs
from an abiding faith in
our Creator?” Reagan
asked.
“I have never believed,”
he added in his
seven-minute address,
“that (separation of
church and state) was
supposed to protect us
from religion. It was to
protect religion from
government tyranny.”
The White House fact
sheet issued at the
ceremony contended that
the authors of the
Constitution never meant
to preclude public school
prayer services.
The Supreme Court, in
a pair of decisions in 1962
and 1963, struck down
such officially sanctioned
services. In the first case
(Engle vs. Vitale) the court
invalidated the use of a
state-composed “Regents’
Prayer,” while in the
second (Abington
Township Schools vs.
Scempp) the court said
recitation of the Lord’s
Prayer or Bible verses
during official school
exercises violated the
separation of church and
state.
The White House said it
believes the Lord’s Prayer
and the Ten Command
ments “are reflections of
our J u d e o - C h ristian
heritage that could not
fairly be described as
instruments for the
imposition of narrow
sectarian dogmas on school
children.”
At a news conference
on Capitol Hill following
the White House
ceremony, representatives
of the national offices of
Lutheran, Baptist,
Methodist, Jewish and
Seventh-day Adventist
denominations uniformly
denounced the Reagan
proposal.
“We believe that the
purpose of prayer is to
praise and petition God,
not to serve the secular
purpose of creating a
moral or ethical
atmosphere for public
school children,” said the
Rev. Charles V. Bergstrom,
executive director of the
office for government
affairs at the Lutheran
Council in the USA.
The group also
emphasized that public
school students still can
participate in “voluntary”
prayer on their own - such
as in personal meditation -
as long as government does
not sanction or encourage
it.
G.M. Ross, congression-
al liaison for the
Seventh-day Adventists,
said his denomination is
willing to support
officially sanctioned
“moments of silence” in
public schools as a
“compromise position.”
David Landau,
legislative counsel for the
American Civil Liberties
Union, added that such
moments of silence, as
long as they do not
encourage prayer or other
forms of religious worship,
have been upheld by the
courts as constitutional.
Also participating in the
news conference was
Americans United for
Separation of Church and
State, which said it feared
that under the amendment
Mormon prayers would
predominate in the public
schools of Utah, Catholic
prayers in Rhode Island
and Jewish prayers in parts
of New York.
“ E a ch school district
in the country will become
a battleground with
religious groups vying for
control of the machinery
of education,” said the
Rev. R.G. Puckett, a
Southern Baptist and the
group’s executive director.
While the White House
did not issue an official
guest list for the Rose
Garden ceremony, a list of
those invited released by
the public liaison office
showed that many of the
participants came from
New Right and evangelical
Protestant organizations.
Among the Catholics
invited to the ceremony,
which Reagan said has
been celebrated on the
first Thursday of May
since the time of the
Continental Congress,
were Winifred Coleman,
executive director of the
National Council of
Catholic Women; William
B. Ball, a nationally
known attorney
specializing in church-state
cases; Leonard De Fiore,
superintendent of schools
for the Archdiocese of
Washington, and Father
Enrique Rueda, who
represents a Washington-
based office opposed to
the growth of Marxism in
Central America.
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