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Livesay to a Conference on Her Work Held in the Offing at the College March 4-5 Vol. 2, No. 4 March 1983 University of St. Jerome's College interpersonal relations, marriage and the family. It is an excellent preparation for those Mark your who have a crucial role in Family Life pro­ grams in the school and in the community," calendars ­ says John Theis, director of the program which is now in its twelfth year. Theis Alumni Picnic! expects about 200 people to be enrolled this The date has been set for an alumni reunion summer. picnic on Sunday, June 26, 1:00 p.m. at The Institute for Studies in Learning Waterloo Park.It has been two years since the Disabilities will be offered from July 4 to 22, College's last alumni gathering, and a picnic This Summer at providing courses at the introductory, in­ is a great reason to come together with old termediate and advanced levels, says pro­ friends and classmates. gram director John Orlando. A number of The College decided on a single-day event St. Jerome's visiting experts will participate in this rather than a weekend of activities as has The majority of summer courses to be offered summer's program. been done in the past. "We hope that this will at the University of Waterloo this year will be The Just Society, a credit course to be encourage more people to attend and that taught at St. Jerome's. A variety of full and offered July 4-22 by the Institute for Studies they will feel free to bring their families," half-credit courses in English, history, in Theological Renewal, will examine the says Rob Donelson, assistant to the registrar religious studies, psychology and philosophy involvement of the Roman Catholic and and one of the organizers. will be available, as will the College's special Protestant churches in issues of poverty, Waterloo Park is adjacent to Seagram summer programs and institutes. unemployment and prejudice; their reaction Stadium and is an ideal location for the picnic Courses in religion and politics, women to socialism and capitalism; their social - a large adult and children's swimming in literature, commonwealth literature, me­ activities in Latin America and their attitudes pool, baseball diamonds, playing fields, shad­ dieval church history, adolescent psychology towards women. Last year's course, The ed areas, free parking and more. and western philosophical tradition among Religious Experience of the Young, was im­ Don't miss the fun! There will be games others will provide a wide variety ofofferings mensely successful, and Institute director and prizes for everyone and free refresh­ for summer students. Doug Letson expects an equally enthusiastic ments. Bring your own table, barbeque and The Studies in Family Life and Sex Edu­ response to this year's offering. chairs. But above all, bring yourself, your cation program will run from July 4 to For more information about summer family and friends. Let us know if you can Augus t 12. "This program is aimed at courses and programs, tuition fees, course attend by completing theenclosed coupon or providing participants with a sound under­ requirements and residence, etc., fill out the by calling the College at (519) 884-8110, ext. 81. standing of basic issues in human sexuality, enclosed coupon. <l Chivalry lives! Writer-in-Residence Graeme Chapter gatherings Gibson welcomes with style Canadian poet Dorothy Livesay to a conference on her work held in the offing at the college March 4-5. The 73-year-old poet's The College is making tentative plans to career has both spanned and is linked to th e major sponsor alumni chapter gatherings in cultural and political developments of the Dorothy Hamilton and Toronto this fall, says Rob twentieth century. A report on Livesay and the Evolution of Donelson. "We have a large body of alumni in Canadian Poetry can be both of these cities, and we feel this is a good found inside. starting point for the development of an alumni association," he says. The chapter gatherings will be an effort to bring the College to the alumni and to reacquaint classmates and old friends. Each chapter gathering will likely consist of a dinner and guest speaker. We hope to have some faculty on hand, and possibly a photo display of college life and information table as well. "These chapter events may also prove to be a catalyst for other alumni sponsored activities," adds Donelson. More information will be available in the June Update! If you would like to suggest ideas for these events or possibly lend a hand in their organization, contact Rob Donelson - (519) 884-8110, ext. 81. Feature Article The Bishops, The Economy, and the University by Kenneth Westhues ment. The Polish government, after all, is There is a lesson in this for a Catholic communist. Even last year, when the U.S. university. So long as the church ignored bishops criticized the Reagan administra­ history and portrayed the Cities of God and tion's preparation for nuclear war, Catholics Man as worlds apart, one of the hallmarks of in the Great North were not perturbed. With a Catholic school was reluctance to find fault our meager weaponry we couldn't even get with existing political and economic realities. into such a war, much less win it. These were but a vale of tears to be under­ But then came the first week of 1983, and stood and patiently endured until entry at a 10-page statement from the Canadian death into the divine kingdom. Criticism of bishops entitled "Ethical Reflections on the public policy and attempts at social change Economic Crisis." It was not the work of the were in fact thought dangerous, since a entire national episcopate, but only of its preoccupation with reforming this basically 8-member Social Affairs Commission. Some unreformable world might distract a good bishops, moreover, publicly disagreed with Catholic's attention fr~m the eternal verities. it. Besides, that short document said little that Today's Catholic university has a differ­ ordinary Canadians had not already thought: ent character. Its mission is to encourage a that the unemployment rate is a moral out­ critical awareness of the status quo, indeed to rage, that Ottawa's austerity program is facilitate and hasten the process of becoming unjust, and that to place profits before human called for in church documents. And true to rights is wrong. Against the background of its tradition, to serve these ends in light of a cries in Quebec and the West to put an end to gospel of peace and justice. This means an Canada itself, the bishops' statement indeed end to rote learning and an insistence on the sounds tame. harder discipline of reasoned, creative Then why all the fuss? Why the headlines thought. It means new courses and programs from St. John's to Victoria, the page in like those at St. Jerome's in the Institutes of Dr. Kenneth Westhues, former chairman of the Newsweek, the cover-story in Maclean's, the Family Life and Sex Education and for Studies Department of Sociology at the University of annoyance of Trudeau, and heated debates in in Theological Renewal, and in the Centre for Waterloo, is a lecturer in the Institute for Studies parishes across the land? Clearly not because Catholic Experience. The new mission gives in Theological Renewal at St. Jerome's. In recent of the specific ideas proposed. These are no a new and critical slant to the classic courses years he has given a course here in Catholic more or less debateable than any other plans in history, philosophy and literature. Above Sociological Thought. For 1982-83 he is Visiting for escape from the economic doldrums we all, it makes the Catholic university come Professor of Sociology at Memorial University of are in. The reason for the uproar is simply alive as more truly Christian, and more truly Newfoundland. that the church has entangled itself in the a university. complexities of everyday Canadian life, has Canadian Catholics barely stirred in 1968, come down to earth and pointed out a need Do you have a comment or question about this when a conference of bishops in Medellin, for social change. This one little document article? Why not offer your own views on this Colombia, condemned the status quo in Latin brought home to Canadians what people in topic or submit an article on a topic that interests America and called for radical change. That Poland and Latin America already know: that you? Responses from readers will be published in southern continent, after all, is a long way the Catholic Church has at last accepted the June Update! Submissions should be no more from here. Nor were Canadian Catholics history, plunged itself into history, that it than 500 words in length and are subject to now pointedly asserts that the City of Man upset when the Polish bishops made editing. common cause with the Solidarity move­ could become through responsible human effort the City of God. Faith and justice linked, says Baum Gregory Baum, the internationally-known society from the perspective of the poor and Baum. "It is through the grass roots networks Canadian theologian and professor of Re­ marginalized. God is seen as just in the that people begin to think and act differently. ligious Studies and sociology at the Univer­ scriptures when he is merciful to the poor They eventually move to the top." sity ofToronto, gave a talk on "Justice and the and oppressed." Modern Encyclicals" at the St. Jerome's Baum acknowledged, though, that our Centre for Catholic Experience on February instincts cause us to look at society from the 25.
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