Christ Is 'Soul' and 'Challenge' “What Is the Soul of the Church?” Could Be Yet It Is Difficult to Put Christ in Any by Art Ferranti Answ Ered
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vol. vi, No. 43 Serving the Notre Dame - St. Mary’s Community Wednesday, November 10, 1071 Dr. Hans Kung: Christ is 'soul' and 'challenge' “What is the soul of the Church?” could be Yet it is difficult to put Christ in any by Art Ferranti answ ered. class of a revolutionary nature since He Noted theologian and author Dr. Hans Kung’s answer to that latter question was definitely not violent,” Kung said. Kung, last night asserted that Christ is was, “Jesus himself.” But Dr. Kung Christ’s message, said Kung, was that both “soul of the church” and “a challenge argued that “we must get the proper view God was the end of history, and in the to the church” in a two hour lecture to a of Christ - is He the Christ of our dreams meantime man must “follow the norm.” near-capacity crowd at St. Mary’s or the Christ of History?” So, he said, This norm is the “Will of God,” said the O’Laughlin Auditorium. “Who and What is Christ?” To answer the theologian. According to Kung, when Dr. Kung, a citizen of Switzerland, drew above two questions on Jesus, Dr. Kung asked what the “Will of God” was by the his conclusion after a lengthly evaluation said that He “is the decisive factor bet people of the time, Christ said that it is the of church thought, beginning with a ween God and Man” and that a Christian is “good of man.” This statement “in discussion of social changes in the world a person who believes this. terconnected both man and God,” he said, since he last spoke here in 1963. He con “making it impossible to be against either tended not all problems visable today were statement.” That is where “the real visible eight years ago. Hence, according revolution” took place, said the Swiss to Kung, the Church has had to change. He lectu rer. cited what he termed the “change in the Christ also “denied the absolute Catholic Church” as a move to understand measures of the law and the Temple,” others and to unite in doctrine with other Kung said, seeking not to overthrow the beliefs. law or Temple but to “become freer and He said that the Church is now con liberated within it sidering the problems of ,am “seriously” Christ also “denied the absolute and he sees “growth in freedom” to seek measures of the law and Temple,” Kung the truth in the Church. But the theologian said, seeking not to overthrow the law or said that the most significant problem in Temple but to “become freer and liberated the Church is a “definite lack of spiritual within it.” According to Kung, Christ leadership.” According to Kung, this lack announced that He was on “the side of the is seen in the (parochial) “school crisis” weak” since He defined one’s neighbor as and in the fact that five priests are now “the person who needs you.” Jesus ad leaving the priesthood for every two vocated “forgiveness over punishment,” seminarians ordained. He also held that Dr. Hans Kung , Kung said again denying but not over “the priests and the bishops differ on throwing the law. practically every major issue.” In Kung’s words, it is “important to Kung asserted that the “people of the According to Kung, the Church’s major realize that Christ was real as a person law realized that if His teachings were problem is to determine “What is who lived approximately 2,000 years ago. believed,” Christ would become a primary.” “If we (the Catholic Church) Dr. Kung said that He was “provocative to “challenge to the whole religious-social recognize other religions, he asked, “Why both conservatives and liberals, nearer to system,” that so Jesus “had to be do we have missions?” God than priests,” and yet was not a liquidated.’’According to the theologian, it If all mankind is concerned with peace priest, “freer than the aschetics in that He was the law that was behind Christ’s and love and so on,” is not Christianity as a accepted invitations by any class of death. “It is a fact,” Dr. Kung said, “that faith “superfluous?” He asserted that this people,” and “more revolutionary than the real movement in the following of question could be answered if the question revolutionaries.” (Continued on page 9) ^ Minority recruitment at ND Numbers are not important recruitment of minority students, Saraceno said that he was Jerry Lutkus minds on these trips are those Dan Saraceno. Saraceno says, looking for students who were schools which always give us . (This is the second part of a"I’m no huckster, I’m just in interested in Notre Dame. “I’m good students and secondly, four part series concentrating vitingon kids to come here. Of representing Notre Dame, not chicanos and blacks.” the minority recruitment policies course, I’m prejudiced toward Whites or Blacks or Chicanos. I Goldrick and Wycliff both of Notre Dame. Today's inNotre Dame, but I also realize guess in this way Blacks and emphasized that in the past year, stallment covers the Office ofthat this place is not what Chicanos are not lulled into a a great deal of attention has been Admissions and their part in everyonethe wants.” false sense of security-the payed to schools in the intercity. recruitment of students.) During the past month, security that there will always be Goldrick recapped the short Saraceno took a two week tour, someone here to turn to—the history of the minority recruit-— John Goldrick is the young man talking to high school students security that comes to a Black ment at Notre Dame. “The issue who runs the Office of Ad about Notre Dame. He visited assuming he will be surrounded came to a head,” according to missions and the question of the Southwest (El Paso, Tuscon, by Blacks for four years.” Goldrick, “in 1968 when the Afro- Phoenix, etc.) where he spoke to minority recruitment is one that American students presented is very important to him. “The many Chicano-populated in their demands to Hesburgh. At stitutions, including a school in Don Saraceno impetus for minority recruitment got started in '68 that time we really got started is there,” he said when I in Santa Fc which was 100 per cent into it.” The office, however, has no terviewed him yesterday,“but we Chicano. Included in his trip part in the recruiting of the were stops at Indian reservations Last year, Goldrick and must remember that the im The Admissions Office is Athletic Department. Wycliff in Arizona and the Dakotas. Student Body President Dave portance is not in numbers, but in comprised of six members, all of calls the Athletic Department “a Drashna set up the what happens when the students whom take these recruiting trips. kingdom unto itself”. Goldrick organizational structure for the get h e re .” Goldrick estimates that the re-emphasized that there is program which came to be called “I see our job as one of members are all on the road for “absolutely no’’ connection RAP (Recruitment Aid presenting the university as it is, at least 4 weeks a year. The between these departments. Program). The organization was as a primarily academic com recruiting trips are broken up In fact, late last year, the created to recruit all minorities. munity,” Goldrick said. “The into geographical areas. Each Athletic Department approached This year, RAP is headed by Carl university is a place for in member has a particualr area. the Admissions Office with a Ellison and Vansetta Childs. tellectual and personal growth.” This way each high school can request to give aid to a student Dan Wycliff, a young, in write to one person in the Ad “who they did not want to waste a tellectual, affable black man, is missions Office. observer insight grant on,” according to Goldrick. one of the members of Goldrick’s Goldrick mentioned that “we The director of admissions was office. He commented that have requested the alumni if we On campus, the Admissions forced to refuse. “when we accept a student, as might visit schools, but the op Office aids students who come Wycliff, however, perhaps far as we can tell, he is capable of posite is never true. We here in search of information. summed up the view of the performing well in the academic generally write ahead, but the The recruiting session that department best. “When people situation here. When we reject a alumni has never plotted which MECHA held on Saturday was have a casse such as minority student we feel he would not be schools we should recruit.” aided by the Admissions Office, recruitment, they look at num capable. It is a judgement in his On these trips, the rule of which picked up the food bill for bers-gross statistics. We’ve sake as well as our own.” thumb is to keep an eye out for the students. Theoffice also gotta look at the individual The office has a member who good students, according to helped arrange speakers for the standing. We’ve gotta look at the specifically concentrates on the John Goldrick Saraceno. “In the back of our m eeting. p erso n .” Page 2 THE OBSERVER Wednesday, November 10, 1071 Critic Roger Ebert to speak tonight reviews a week, which are In June, 1970, Ebert’s first Roger Ebert, movie critic for 1963 Overseas Press Club award studied at the University of Cape distributed to more than 100 other screenplay, “Beyond the Valley the Chicago Sun Times, will for best reporting on world af Town in South Africa on a Rotary newspapers, and a Sunday “think of the Dolls,” opened in theaters speak in the Planner Hall Lounge fairs in a college daily.