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Va., and St. Albans School and Episcopal Schools Association the National Cathedral School, both at the cathedral. Bishop Hears Corrigan on Trends Creighton of Washington cele- brated the service facing the publication. By E. John Mohr allowed to "live in their land— congregation from a plain altar and Witness Editorial Assistant which the Lord God has created placed in the crossing of the through you". church, the choirs being behind reuse -k Declaring that God will The disappearance of the him in the chancel. Bishop for raise up "new institutions to family as an integrated unit Stephen F. Bayne, Jr., director fulfill his will" if the old ones was cited by Bishop Corrigan of the overseas department of are "unresponsive to his chang- as a principal element of change the Executive Council was the required ing breath" Bishop Daniel Cor- in contemporary society. When preacher, assistants at the serv- rigan, director of the Executive children hear conventional de- ice being: Bishop Corrigan; Council's home department, scriptions of the family as cen- Suffragan Bishop Chilton of

Permission made an urgent plea for a rec- ters of communal life they look Virginia; the Rev. Rodman P. ognition of the need to change at the Church questioningly, Kypke, president, Texas Epis- in contemporary life in a series said Dr. Corrigan, "as we dish copal School Association; the DFMS.

/ of addresses at the triennial out this bunk." Although firmly Rev. W. G. Hensom Jacobs, meeting of the National Associ- committed to monogamy, he headmaster, St. Augustine's ation of Episcopal Schools in said, he could not look upon it School, New York City; the Rev. Church Washington, D. C, November as "the order of the world, as John D. Verdery, headmaster, 10-12. the law of the land", holding the Wooster School, Danbury, Representatives f r o m 170 that it is based essentially on Conn.; the Rev. John Crocker, Episcopal schools in 31 states participated grace rather than nature, and Sr., headmaster emeritus, Gro- the in the proceedings, in which that marriage must be a volun- ton School, Groton, Mass.; the of worship in the schools was the tary relationship, something it Rev. Canon Charles Martin, major theme. At two oucharis- has become increasingly in headmaster, St. Albans School; modern society. and the Rev. John P. Williams,

Archives tic celebrations for the confer- dean of schools in the diocese ence special musical settings for In the realm of education con- of Virginia.

2020. the communion service were tinuous change is demanded, presented. Bishop Corrigan held, by the The compositions for the serv- The need for change in insti- rapid progression in industrial, ice were brilliant and well sung, tutions, in Dr. Corrigan's view, scientific, and economic life, re- but were partially ineffective be- Copyright grows out of the rapid accelera- quiring continuous education for cause the congregational cere- tion of history in current times the individual if he is to survive. monial was not coordinated with and the vastly greater availa- The musical setting for the it. In his arrangement Dirksen bility of information for all, opening communion service of provided for cheering of "Ho- including children. He deplored the conference in Washington sanna in the Highest" by the the tendency to put forth the Cathedral was written in con- congregation in response to the "same old cliches" and the temporary style by Richard choirs' singing of "Blessed is he "same old lines" in the face of Dirksen, music director of the that cometh in the name of the the present urgency, telling the National Cathedral School for Lord" at the end of the Sanctus educators that they cannot ex- Girls, and sung by glee clubs of and Benedictus setting. But at pect children "to live in your St. Agnes School and Episcopal this point the congregation was land". Rather, they must be High School, both in Alexandria, still kneeling, and, not being in

NOVEMBER 24, 1966 a good position to shout, ie- trustees; involvement of stu- Danbury, Conn., was elected mained silent. dents in community service; president of the Association, At the closing service, cele- leadership in social changes in succeeding Dr. Ruth Jenkins, brated by Bishop Corrigan, a this country; and innovations and the Rev. Thomas Shaw of jazz setting was used. The Rev. and new concepts in education. New Orleans took Verdery's John Gensel, a New York City The Rev. John D. Verdery of former place as vice-president. Lutheran pastor, read the 150th psalm as an introit, Dr. Ruth Jenkins, headmistress of the Charges of Racism in Church Bishop's School, La Jolla, Calif., and president of the association, Sparks N. Y. Demonstration read the epistle, Dr. Verdery being the gospeller. Others as- •k More than 200 singing and welcomed inside by Canon Char- sisting were: The Rev. Thomas praying Episcopalians demon- les M. Guilbert, secretary of the N. F. Shaw, headmaster, Trinity strated outside the Church's Executive Council, and Vaugn School, New Orleans, La.; the national headquarters against Moore, building administrator. publication. Rev. Burton A. McLean, head- racism in the Church. Both Bishop Myers and the master of Iolani School, Honolu- The protest outside the Cen- Rev. James P. Breeden, a Negro and lu, Hawaii; the Rev. Kenneth ter culiminated an all-night priest of Roxbury, Mass., who vigil in its Chapel of Christ the is assistant director of the com- reuse Cary, headmaster, St. Matthew's Lord by 17 members of the mission on religion and race of for Parish School, Pacific Palisades, California; the Rev. John Jen- Episcopal Society for Cultural the National Council of Chur- kins, headmaster, All Saints and Racial Unity. ches, cited instances of racism required School, Vicksburg, Miss.; the At the close of the mid-day in personnel policies and parish Rev. E. Allison Grant, head- protest, C. Kilmer Myers, suf- practices in their Church. master, Grace Church School, fragan bishop of Michigan and "The life of the Church as it New York, N. Y.; and the Rev. other ESCRU leaders placed a is lived today in this country," Permission James McDowell, headmaster, 350 -word indictment against Bishop Myers said, "shows that Sewanee Military Academy, "heretical and blasphemous" it is shot through with racism."

DFMS. Sewanee, Tenn. Episcopal race practices on the Breeden told of being turned / At the working sessions of desk of the 7th floor office of down by his home diocese of the meeting some participants Presiding Bishop John E.Hines, Minnesota because there were

Church resisted what one of them called who was in Geneva, Switzer- no vacancies in two existing a "bondage to the Prayer land. "Negro parishes." Book", urging freer liturgical "Dear John: love, Kim," Bishop Myers said the indict-

Episcopal forms for use in schools. Others Bishop Myers scribbled atop the ments drawn up by ESCRU

the advocated writing of prayers by list of charges. represented a "first step" in a of students in their own language, Earlier, the bishop and other "growing ground swell" of sup- to stimulate direct participation leaders of the national organiza- port in Church ranks for a "call in worship, while some felt that tion, which held its annual for renewal" issued by the Archives conventional language was pre- meeting for three days at the House of Bishops (Witness, ferable if it were explained. Cathedral of St. John the Divine 11/10). 2020. One commentator expressed the and two Harlem churches, joined The grievances, Bishop Myers view that where students did crossed arms and sang freedom said, supported "the kinds of the scripture reading, as in one songs on the sidewalk outside stands" taken in behalf of

Copyright of the demonstration services the building. interracial justice by Bishop in the cathedral, they should be Immediate cause of the out- Hines and ranking Church of- sure of knowing the meaning of burst was a purported lock-out ficials "in the face of intense the passages they read. of members and newsmen by pressures." In his report to the meeting officials of the building. It was Read aloud outside the Cen- the Rev. John Carter, executive a Saturday, and the building is ter by Malcolm E. Peabody Jr., secretary, presented some areas closed at that time. younger brother of recently de- in which developments might be However, since ESCRU had feated candidate for senator expected in Church schools. received permission the night from Massachusetts, Endicott These included broadening the before for an all-night pray-in Peabody, the Episcopal group's vision of education on the part in the chapel, those sympathi- statement began: of the lay controllers in the zers who the next day milled "We charge the Church to schools, such as patrons and around outside were at length which we belong and which we Four THB WITNESS love with heretical and blas- terial blessings toward the group said, if the Church is to phemous distortion of the Chris- establishment of full opportuni- heed the mandate of their tian doctrine of man." ty for all people. bishops for a Council "for the Episcopalians, it said, have "We continue to commit the renewal of the church in our distorted "almost beyond recog- ultimate sin, that of fostering day." nition much of the apostolic the separation of man from The group said it took the teaching" about mankind and man." words of the bishops favoring a "have permitted the erection of Segregation, the document council "most seriously" and heretical structures within our said, is acted out in the sacra- pledged "unstinting support" to midst." ments of baptism and the eu- "this holy effort" of renewal. The document assailed racism charist. Both of these central Co-authors with Bishop My- in "privileged sanctuaries" of actions in Church life, instead, ers and Father Breeden of the white suburbia and hiring prac- should express "reunion in the protest document were the Rev. tices which treat Negro priests life which is in Christ Jesus." John McG. Krumm, rector of "as though they were inferior As a result, the statement went the Church of the Ascension, human beings incapable of min- on: "Our need to repent is so New York, and chairman of the publication. istering at our altars and pulpits great that it scarcely may be Witness editorial board, and to the whole people of God." described." the Rev. Robert E. Hood, of and Christian education in the Yet "repent we must," the Gary, Indiana.

reuse Church "reflects the image of

for false dignity and human sepa- ration," the statement charged. Contributions to Protestant And, it continued: "We have required perpetuated economic and moral Churches Establish Record inequalities of discrimination by * Total Church giving by all purposes rose from $72.04 in our Church's financial invest- members of 44 U.S. and Canadi- 1964 to $77.75 in 1965.

Permission ments and its building and pur- an Protestant and Anglican NCC commission officers, in- chasing policies without creative denominations reached a record terpreting these financial statis- protest." $3,300,996,291 in the 1965 fiscal tics, cautioned against drawing DFMS. / Result of this racism "at the year, the National Council of hasty conclusions from compari- very heart of the Church's life," Churches reported. sons between totals for 1964 it said, "is an inability to ad-

Church The commission on steward- and 1965. They pointed out dress its mission to the crucial ship and benevolence said the that the figures "are not abso- issues in the life of our nation." 1965 total in its annual "Statis- lute, but indicative only." The sidewalk audience ap- tics of Church Finances" repre- It also was noted that only Episcopal plauded as Peabody continued: sented the highest figure ever 44 denominations were reported the reported in the 45 years since out of 250 listed in the 1966 of "The Church has retreated from the implications of the phrase the compilation has been made. Yearbook of American Chur- 'black power' in order to con- Last year the commission ches, published by the NCC.

Archives tinue the status quo of white reported that contributions to In denominational per capita power and white supremacy. 41 denominations totalled near- giving, as usual small evangeli-

2020. ly $3 billion in 1964. "We have permitted the vast cal Churches far outstripped the Of the 1965 grand total, majority of our members to live larger Churches. The Wesleyan 36 U.S. denomination received comfortably in segregated hous- Methodist Church, with a 39,114 $3,172,114,782 for all purposes, Copyright ing and to justify continued membership, led all the reported passing the $3 billion mark for buying and selling in a segre- American church bodies with the first time. Six Canadian gated housing market. $290.48. However, the Free church bodies received $128,- Methodist Church which has "We have acquiesced to dis- 881,509. been first in per member giving criminatory practices of em- The U.S. total was divided — in the last several years was ployment by unions and em- $569,589,195 for benevolences not reported in the 1965 statis- ployers, condoning them by our such as home and foreign mis- tics. In 1964 the Free Meth- silence. sions and overseas relief, a per odist per capita was $358.17. "We have done little to equal- capita figure of $14.03; and Per capita giving among some i z e educational opportunities. $2.6 billion for congregational of the largest denominations We have failed to address our- expenses, a per capita of $63.72. was: Protestant Episcopal, selves to the turning of our ma- Average per capita giving for $106.80; Lutheran Church- NOVEMBER 24, 1966 Missouri Synod, $106.66; Dis- Lambeth consultative body, Anglican brethren in seeking ciples of Christ, $95.91; United which was set up as a kind of avenues to be explored and Presbyterian, $95.75; American continuing committee by the ways and means to be found for Lutheran, $86.70; Methodist, Lambeth Conference of 1958. affecting a better common $61.42; and Southern Baptist, The announcement added: "The understanding among the Chur- $59.22. high cost of what has been ches of Christ." undertaken by the college makes He commented that this is FLEMMING EXPECTED AS it impossible for it to continue the goal of the supreme leader NEXT NCC PRESIDENT on the grants which the An- of Eastern Orthodoxy, Ecu- glican communion budget has * President Arthur S. Flem- menical Patriarch Athenagoras been able to provide. Decisions of Istanbul, and added that a ming of the University of Or- have still to be made, with the egon since 1961 and a former Bible acceptable to all Chris- aid of a new advisory council, tians "would be of prime im- U.S. secretary of health, educa- about the future use of the tion and welfare, is expected to portance for the word and college and its library in the teaching of Jesus Christ ..." be nominated as president of service of the Church at home publication. the National Council of Chur- and overseas." "We would want one Bible ches at its triennial General for all Christians," Archbishop and St. Augustine's was originally Assembly in Miami Beach, Fla., founded for the education of Iakovos said, "provided that Dec. 4-9. scholars of all the Churches reuse ordination candidates intending would cooperate in such a pro- for It was learned that the NCC's to serve in distant parts of nominating committee will pre- what was then the British ject and provided that the Holy sent only Flemming's name to Empire. In 1947, under a sup- Synod of the Ecumenical Pa- required the assembly. The nominating plemental charter, it was au- triarchate would authorize its committee in the past has pre- thorized to admit clergy from use." sented only one candidate for all parts of the world and the post and nomination has ordination candidates irrespec- Permission been tantamount to election. tive of their sphere of service. WE'RE SORRY Flemming, a Methodist long Its establishment as the "cen- • The wife of the managing DFMS. editor is a good speller; her / active in the NCC, would be the tral college" of the Anglican second layman to hold the Na- communion in 1952 was in ful- husband is not so there are tional Council's top elective post. fillment of a resolution of the weekly comments about errors. Church J. Irwin Miller of Columbus, Lambeth Conference of 1948. Thus in Dr. Grant's review of Ind., a member of the Christian It was then stated that it would the book by Xavier Rynne on Churches, served from 1960-63. provide a place where men the fourth session of the Vati- Episcopal could come for further study in can Council (11/10) we had the the Bishop of Edmonton saying ST. AUGUSTINE'S COLLEGE subjects relating to the evan- of gelization of the world and the about the Church that it seeks CHANGES STATUS "to approach the source of di- * St. Augustine's College at growth and welfare of the life of the Church, and be an Angli- vine and human knowledge and Archives Canterbury, England, will cease can center and place of scholar- spurning the aid of others." It to be the "central college" of should be "not spurning the aid

2020. ship and research. the Anglican communion next of others." June because of financial diffi- In the same review we had culties, the Church of England ORTHODOX WILL WORK ON COMMON BIBLE the Latin "reformata" which Copyright reported. should have been "reformanda". St. Augustine's was founded * Pope Paul's call for Roman Professor Grant who thinks in under Royal Charter in 1848; in Catholic cooperation in common Latin, and who took notes on 1952 it became the "central col- Bible translation work was wel- 633 Latin speeches while he was lege" of the worldwide com- comed by Archbishop Iakovos, an observer at the first session munion. primate of the Greek Orthodox of the Council, felt badly about News of the decision to termi- archdiocese of North and South the slip. The managing editor nate this role came from America, as a significant move did not feel so badly about this, Lambeth Palace, the official toward "better understanding since he has a hard enough time residence of the Archbishop of among all Christians." thinking in English, let alone Canterbury. "We, the Orthodox," the arch- any other language. The announcement said the bishop said, "will work with our We'll try to do better, with- decision had been made by the Roman Catholic, Protestant and out making any promises.

Six THB WITNESS EDITORIAL one compares him with any philosopher or theo- Why Blame the Leader? logian that pops into your head there is all the difference that there is between an artist who THE WORLD'S social order seems to be in a bad creates stained glass windows and a small boy way. There is an over production of food in half who smashes them. When one compares him the world and starvation in the other half. There with our political and financial leaders there is is a universal opportunity for education and a an antithesis which is final. maximum of crime. There is a tremendous amount Never mind about the next world. If Christ's of religion and very little charity. There are promises are worth anything they are based upon innumerable political panaceas and a minimum his prescription for this world in its power to of social content. produce love, joy and peace in spite of adversities. All of which seems to indicate that the world It doesn't make any difference whether it is one publication. has accumulated many things but in doing so is in a hundred or one in a million, the test of the and in danger of losing its soul. We have a lot of remedy is to be judged by those who use it. The things but are not very happy with them all. trouble is that the dose is impalatable to selfish reuse The public press, which is the barometer of the people and they refuse to take it. But the fact for public atmosphere, specializes in crime because that so many who pretend to believe in it do not that is what sells the papers. We Americans do really follow the treatment doesn't invalidate the love to hear the minute particulars of ghastly efficacy of it. required murders, or sordid family relations, of brutal Even at that if you divide mankind into two crime. Like juveniles we love to hear ghost parts, those who try to follow him and those who stories and are afraid of the dark. We would hate reject him, and put all of one group on one con- Permission to meet a real ghost in a graveyard at midnight tinent and all of the others on another, this latter but we want to read about him. We have more place would not be inhabited solely by intel-

DFMS. means of communication than any age and less lectuals but would include all the other behaviour- / that is worth while to communicate. ists from bandits to rapists. You can't judge one What society needs is a stabilizer and what we group by including everybody and the other group Church get from the pamphlet writers is abuse of the by selecting the cream only. All the thugs in Church. Well in a way that is a compliment to America are in the behaviourist group. If Christ the Church. When things go wrong politically hasn't made many saints who are entitled to Episcopal we blame the government because we have a con- future rewards, he has at least made society the decent to live in just in proportion as it has

of viction that if it is to be righted at all the govern- ment must do it. It is at least a recognition that accepted his leadership. the Church could be a potent force for bringing We are weary of having Christianity judged

Archives order out of chaos if those in the Church were by its failures and every other theory and system competent to administer it. The attack is there- judged by a little group of selected varieties. If 2020. fore upon those who represent the Church. They the Christian Church has to be sponsor for are not doing what could be done if the clergy everyone who pretends to be a Christian then and laity were equal to their task. Unfortunately why is the group that advocates self-indulgence Copyright they are composed of the same flesh and blood exempt from similar treatment? It is as though as their critics. The critics are doing nothing. you condemned one of Beethoven's symphonies Church people are not doing much. because most orchestras play it badly. Well, what can be done about it? It is evident Moreover it is easy to point out that very few to all men that if we were to love one another ever excel in anything that they attempt but that everybody would be happy. But there is no one does not mean that their critics are doing any who has ever attempted that Herculean task in better. They are a gallery of bleacher athletes a way that has inspired others but Jesus Christ. who are looking at the game merely because they When one compares him with political leaders have the price, but who if they tried to play it all over the world the comparison is odious. There would be carried out in an ambulance. Still they is a greater gulf between them than there is be- can tell you how it ought to be played because tween St. Francis and Alexander Borgia. When they are in no danger of being hurt.

NOVEMBER 24, 1966 It is a sick old world, too diseased to appreciate "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy virtue or to enjoy its possessions. It has a soul and thy neighbor as thyself." thousand theories of how it could be made well It is only so that society has found a joyous by processes of thought or by a multitude of expectancy which is essential to spiritual health. recommended readjustment, but it has always It is perfectly true that the Christ has never pursued a vicious circle of panaceas which are succeeded in raising society to the status of per- the same old stuff with different labels. And fect health. He never expected to. What he did do was to promise his grace to those who would when its amateurish treatment runs its usual follow him and to leaven society in general just course and the patient becomes desperately ill in proportion to the reality of effort in those who then it looks to the Good Physician to restore it followed him. to some degree of its former health. But the The Church has no more failed than reputable more it recovers the less use it has for the doctor, physicians have failed. The failure lies in the and it begins again the same old round of quack habits of the patients, whether he rejects the remedies. treatment in toto or does not use it as directed. publication. There is no question that the only solution of Why blame the Physician for the stupidity of his

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ONLY DAYS AGO it was announced that the which contradict many earlier conclusions as to Church Episcopal House of Bishops meeting in Wheel- the beginnings of the Church's life and faith. ing, West Virginia, had voted to form a council In the main, however, the contemporary of laymen and clergymen whose purpose, ac- Church has absorbed — or been given the op- Episcopal cording to the Witness for November 10th portunity to absorb — a surprisingly small the would be to "help rethink, restructure and renew

of amount of this new knowledge. For that mat- the Church for life in the world today." The ter, she seems not fully to recognize either its spelling out of details will take place in due potential, or the full weight of its challenge. It

Archives time. Bishop Stokes of Massachusetts, who is not that we are totally unknowledgeable. proposed this action, was reported in the same There are many individuals who are aware of 2020. issue to have "said that it would take up such what has been happening. As a Church, how- questions as the impact of modern science on ever, we seem not to know what to do about it. religious belief, new forms of the ministry, the One has but to listen to a few representative Copyright role of laymen, peace and other issues widely sermons, or hear the questions of laymen, or being discussed in the Church." note the shock of some new students when in One issue urgently needing the council's at- our seminaries they encounter the frankly his- tention is the impact of modern biblical studies torical methodology of biblical studies, to know upon the life of the Church. In recent decades that something, somewhere, has gone wrong. new discoveries, new techniques, and a new competence have revolutionized the study of Questions Being Asked earliest Christian origins. For many years now THE EVENTS of recent months supply vivid Christian scholars have found themselves com- corroboration. Many people, including church- pelled to an understanding and use of holy scrip- men, are asking pointed questions with respect ture which are markedly different from those to the traditional biblical, credal, and theological of our grandparents. They point to findings affirmations of the faith. There is, however,

THB WITNESS little recognition, at least in those pros and cons tionings are a misinterpretation of the evidence which are shared with the public through the must themselves have the courage and forth- usual communications media, of the fact that rightness to face up to the full impact of biblical these questions are inevitable, that they are research. A rebuttal which is emotional and full demanded by the information now available to of pious platitudes is self-defeating. A rebuttal, Christian historians. When a seminary student however, which is obviously knowledgeable and shrugs this off by saying, "Well, when people which exhibits intellectual acumen and aware- allow themselves to become infected with secul- ness will contribute notably to the Church's life arism, what can you expect?" his teacher can and wholeness — and will gain the respect even challenge him on the spot. The sad thing, how- of those who disagree. ever, is the fact that there are many in the Surely this makes it imperative that there be, Church who are not students who seem equally as part of the membership of the new council, unaware of the gravity of this situation and of representatives from the total broad spectrum the magnitude of the Church's responsibility. of biblical and theological scholarship. This This, at least, is indisputable — that the "scep- whole area is begging for discovery and analysis tics," as they are pejoratively labelled, speak out publication. —what are biblical historians saying today? because the evidence as they see it compells why? what does it all mean? what are the dan- and them to do so. Only by raising questions can gers? can we profit? how? such Christians be honest with themselves, or reuse There are other considerations which under- with the Church to which actually they are in- for line this imperative. Most of us still rejoice tensely loyal. This evidence, moreover, is to over the fact that ours is a reformed Catholic- large degree the product of modern biblical ism, and subscribe sincerely to the statement required research. "that the holy scriptures contain all doctrine This is in no sense a prejudgment of the basic required as necessary for eternal salvation issue. Biblical historians are the first to admit through faith in Jesus Christ." Is it not in- that their field of research is in a high state Permission escapable, then, that among all the various of flux. Those truly competent are extremely theological disciplines the Bible has a certain reluctant to speak of "assured results." As in

DFMS. natural priority? The Church's seeming un-

/ the past, so it may happen again that new dis- awareness of much that is going on in the field coveries and methodologies will modify or con- of biblical research certainly should make one tradict some of the conclusions presently held. Church pause. This, however, is not the point. Today's scholar- ly judgments, whether facts, or "facts" in quo- Here perhaps theological education, through tation marks, or most probably a combination an excess of departmentalization and because Episcopal of both, are honestly held by increasing num- curricula are not sufficiently biblically oriented, the has contributed adversely. It is not that more of bers of highly skilled specialists. They are with equal honesty held by some of our bishops, courses on the Bible are necessary. The need clergy, and laymen. Such a circumstance de- rather is that all areas of study be more Archives mands careful scrutiny and analysis of tradi- thoroughly grounded in the scriptures, which tional Christian belief and practice. requires on the part of instructors generally an 2020. awareness of what biblical scholars are discover- Pastoral Obligation ing, thinking, writing today. None of this suggests that other theological disciplines are FULL AWARENESS and airing of the current Copyright less important than biblical studies; but it does judgments of Christian historians is important hint at important things as to how these disci- for every Christian. Mere repetition of the plines, including the Bible itself, might best be traditional formulae, for all their truth, will not taught. answer questioners' honest searchings. The Creative Action Church is here faced on all sides with a mo- mentous pastoral obligation. The challengers of ONE WONDERS, too, if without the revolution the status quo are not constitutional and peren- in biblical studies we would have today the Bult- nial doubters, but intelligent individuals who manns and the Tillichs and the Robinsons and are honor bound by the facts, as they under- those many others who stand on the frontiers stand them, to ask pointed questions. of Christian thinking. Most of us, although Those who honestly believe that such ques- differing in our assessment of conclusions, would

NOVEMBER 24, 1966 Nin* agree that minds such as these play an ex- sion which apply in every other area of human tremely important role in the Church's total life. knowledge. Or would there have been, to ask another ques- This view goes hand in hand with that un- tion, at this particular point in history an ecu- fortunate misuse of the phrase "religious versus menical surge, or a Vatican II, had not Chris- secular" which builds a wall between the two. tian historians broken so much new ground? If, for instance, seminary students were not Responsible give and take between opposing inhibited by this presupposition, they would views is invariably creative. The painful but realize that their previous secular studies in happy stirrings of new life in the Church today college provided a knowledge and a context illustrate this fact. To all of this modern bibli- which are indispensable for theological studies. cal research has contributed abundantly. The Many, to cite a concrete example, are bewildered implications for the work of the council are and worried when they learn that the oral tradi- plain. tion underlying our Gospels underwent a great deal of modification, with the result that its There is a different kind of reason, also, roots in history are often obscure, sometimes, which highlights the necessity for the Church even, unrecoverable. If, however, they were publication. fully and frankly to recognize and assess the able, or encouraged, to use what they had earlier work of biblical scholarship. The writer's own and learned of man and his ways — through the experiences with lecturing to church groups study of sociology, anthropology, psychology, reuse have long since made clear the tremendous literature — the manifest characteristics of for hunger among today's laymen to learn more Christian oral tradition would occasion no trau- about every aspect of the Church's faith and matic surprise. By the same token the council life. People are interested, they ask questions, will doubtless explore the astounding accumula- required they do want to know what is going on; and tion of new knowledge wherever one turns. If they are movingly appreciative of anyone who our stance is that of welcome, rather than will take the time to teach them. Their recep- suspicion, the disciplines mentioned above, and Permission tivity is overwhelming. By and large, they a host of others such as linguistics, cybernetics, seem to be not at all dismayed to learn that and the various sciences, will prove to be signifi-

DFMS. historians and theologians are by no means cant contributors to every aspect of the Church's / unanimous in their evaluations and interpreta- life and mission. tions.

Church On the contrary, the stimulation which this Here again theological education comes into provides opens up new depths of the faith which the picture, and with imagination and daring might do much to erase that unwarranted bar- had been previously unknown to them. Here

Episcopal rier between the Church and the world which the Church has an obligation and opportunity is so disadvantageous to both. the awesome in its potential. The people are wait- of ing. The hunger is there. Any educative ef- Job of Seminaries fort will be rewarded beyond fondest expecta- IN THE PAST, seminaries have themselves

Archives tions. If this writer's own experience is any tended towards isolationism. In spirit, through criterion, the result for most will be renewed highly circumscribed curricula, and sometimes 2020. loyalty to the Church and conversion from a through the very locale and physiognomy of nominal to a genuinely meaningful and effective the "plant," they have too often mirrored and, Christianity. conversely, encouraged the erroneous assumption Copyright Welcome New Knowledge that Christianity disdainfully withdraws from WHY has the Church been so reticent to recog- reality. What we need so badly is the precise nize the full implications of biblical research? opposite — a frank engagement with the world, This question points to other dimensions of the not only more effectively to proclaim the gospel, Church's life which need scrutiny. The problem but first of all to learn more about the depths in part is one of "isolationism". Still, that is, of the gospel itself. We must tear down the we are struggling to overcome the deeply in- walls which confine our minds. grained assumption that the Church, her For theological education this means a cur- thoughts, her ways, her scriptures are, some- riculum and a manner of teaching which force how, unassailable, untouchable, and not properly students to see the relatedness of their theologi- subject to those criteria of analysis and discus- cal studies to all secular disciplines of learning. Ten THB WITNESS One cannot but wonder if today this might be we have to give; and before we can receive, we done most effectively in the context of a secular have to recognize that we have lacks and needs, university, and as an integral part of such an and know clearly what these are. Inasmuch as institution. Nor should there be in the middle all truth is of God, to open ourselves to the al- of that secular campus a walled theological com- most unlimited horizons of the intellectual and pound. Let our ordinands live, eat, sleep, wrestle scientific world cannot but enrich the Church's with, learn from the others, the ones to whom life, increase the effectiveness of her evangelis- they will someday minister. tic endeavor, and once and for all intern the How stimulating, too, for our theological suspicion that the Church and Christian faith faculties as members of a university faculty to are anti-intellectual and obscurantist. experience the bluntly honest give and take of This, move, moreover, will come as an answer keen minds equally, in their own specialties, to the prayers of many, especially those who concerned with God's truth! This would have felt a severe tension between their unshake- eliminate at least one danger of the present able loyalty to the Church and their honest traditional pattern of much theological educa- deep questioning of much that she says and tion, namely, the study of theological subjects does today. Such individuals will feel a new publication. out of context. freedom as still convinced churchmen to speak and out. Exciting Proposal If we truly believe with St. John that the reuse THE MOVE to form a council of the Church Holy Spirit is still with his Church "to teach for for renewal is both far-sighted and exciting, you all things," we will rejoice at this most indeed, it is a significant extension of MRI. recent action taken by our bishops, and support

required Before we can share, we must know, truly, what it fully.

Permission TOWARD A SOCIETY OF PERSONS By Sister Mary A. Schaldenbrand DFMS. / Professor of Philosophy, Nazareth College, Michigan

R.C. NUN AND PHILOSOPHER URGES THE Church RESPONSIBLE CONTROL OF CONCEPTION Episcopal I SHOULD LIKE to discuss the topic of this Washington last May, what makes family plan- the

of symposium — the population crisis: twentieth ning important to the civil rights cause is its century challenge — from the viewpoint of the making possible greater freedom and security contemporary revolution in our understanding for the Negro or, in the language I use here,

Archives of persons. For, as I see it, the changing status its promoting of the Negroes' personal being. of women marks a genuine advance insofar as Within this personalist frame, the responsible 2020. it assures equal opportunities for women to control of conception assumes its fully positive realize their possibilities as persons and, in the sense as helping to make possible a new and process, to participate as equal partners with truly human world order. Copyright men in the great task of our time: the building What is revolutionary in present-day insights up of a world where everyone is recognized as a into personal being can be summarized in five person and is therefore free, not in word only points: but in fact, to achieve personal values. • As existential philosophy and literature To speak more concretely and by way of make dramatically clear, being a person is not example: it seems to me that the objectives of a fact but a task. The person is a project, an family planning and civil rights, insofar as they "is to be" whose condition of becoming is that are realized, contribute impressively to the we "make it be." building up of a world of not merely masses, • The fundamental aim of the person, the but persons. As Dr. Martin Luther King pointed project which the person is, as opposed to pro- out in accepting the Margaret Sanger Award in jects which the person has, is to be with other

NOVEMBEK 24, 1966 persons in ways which maximize human capaci- combination of events makes this approximation, ties for freedom and reciprocity. Or, to put it in all but the shortest run, realizable as U Thant another way: the person exists as an exigence has well said: "It is no longer resources that of ever deepening and inclusive modes of co- limit decisions. It is the decision that makes presence. the resources. This is the fundamental revolu- • Placed in the context of co-presence, human tionary change—perhaps the most revolutionary sexuality acquires its full weight. Therein the man has ever known." human body achieves most fully its primary Abilities of Women existential meaning: namely, to be a condition NOT LEAST among these resources are the of presence. Moreover, when the request for personal capacities of the world's women. What recognition which traverses the sexual act is the increasing development and involvement of mutually answered in depth and in truth, sexual women's abilities will mean for the human com- communion realizes most fully its person-crea- tive power. By person-creative, I should explain, munity can scarcely yet be estimated. One I directly intend not procreation — though pro- thing is sure: unhampered participation in the creation may be involved •— but the unique broadest range of human activities and purposes publication. power of sexual communion to achieve the per- is of utmost importance, not only to the per- and sonal being of the partners involved. For, sonal fulfillment of women, but to the fulfill- whereas the person comes to be in and through ment of our hopes for building up on a global reuse acts of recognition, the mutual loving recogni- scale a society of persons. for tion of authentic sexual encounter, achieved in There is no denying, of course, that women the self-donation of each to the other, overcomes are presently denied the full scope and free

required the barriers of individual isolation and engen- exercise of their personal powers. We do in- ders a "we", a common destiny. deed suffer from "cultural lag." The forms it takes vary in subtlety and inhibitory effect, • But, wherever it occurs •— either inside or however. Inner sources of "lag" are probably Permission outside of a sexual context — the person-crea- more subtle and effectively inhibitory than tive act of recognition is not easily come by. overt, easily discernible sources. To free women

DFMS. It intends the person as, at once, a "unique" from sub-personal serf-personal self-definitions / and a bearer of the universal essence: being- which, for example, confine them to a narrowly human. Appreciating the person as a "unique" conceived "species-preservative" role is at least Church is thus not independent of appreciating the as important as battling the more obvious forms humanness which the person uniquely expresses. of cultural inertia. Precisely at this point, it If, then, the act of recognition is to escape seems to me, the responsible control of concep- Episcopal becoming an empty formula or a merely super- tion assumes critical and positive significance. the ficial gesture, it needs to be informed by a wide For, on the one hand, it diminishes fears and of range of cultural meanings and values which anxieties, thereby making more available person- "say" the human: the shoes of Van Gogh's creative sexual communion. And, on the other,

Archives peasant, for example, or the "Gelsomina" of it liberates time and energy for the develop- La Strada. ment of personal capacities and their exercise

2020. • Finally, the person-creating act is not within the larger human community. independent of social arrangements and institu- tions. In his incisive study of Asylums, the Family Planning Copyright sociologist, Erving Goffman, makes the point: FROM ANOTHER point of view, we see how Every organization is a place for generating family planning can make an essential contribu- identities. To work toward a society of persons tion to the great task of our time: that is build- is thus to engage ourselves in the continuing ing up a world of persons. Inasmuch as pro- task of conforming social realities to the truth creation is the first step of person creation, it of personal being: its dignity as absolute exist- is a step to be taken responsibly, in conscience ence-value, its destination to interpersonal ful- and faith, so that the new life to be created will fillment. have a good chance of achieving its personal To be sure, this is an ambitious objective. possibility. Not that the application of technique But to hope for a reasonably close approxima- to human conception is without danger. It could tion to it is not Utopian. In our time, a happy conceivably result in unrestrained egotism, a

Twelve THE WITNESS contempt for life, and the further degradation of ties of that day, one got the feeling that this sexuality in a society which has already, in so was truly death. To all intents and purposes, many ways, reduce it to a consumer's item. the noble was dead, and from that moment on, But every notable advance of human power there could be no reconciliation between the comports a corresponding advance in our exer- King and the Archbishop. Ahead, lay murder cise of responsibility. By now it is clear that in the cathedral and canonization of Becket! we are called to a new and more adult way, of exercising moral responsibility. It is our task On the 13th of February, 1556, two repre- to measure up to this way, not to evade it. To sentatives of Queen Mary, better epithetized as evade it is, in fact, no longer really possible. We "Bloody", by the names of Bonner and Thirlby are obliged to become, not the masters, but the traveled down to Oxford to execute the papal responsible guardians of life which, thanks to order to degrade Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. our tending, will realize more and more fully The procedure on that occasion was most ex- its person potential. quisite. Alfred Pollard in his biography, Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation, states

publication. that "nothing that ingenuity could devise was omitted to abase the victim and wound his and Anathema spirit." After mocking the scholar and liturgist, By William B. Spofford Jr. reuse Dean of St. Michael's Cathedral, Boise, Idaho they began to strip Cranmer of his robes. Says for Pollard: ONE of the most powerful scenes in motion "As they took off his pall he asked, 'Which pictures is in B e c k e t, which was doing the of you hath a pall to take off my pall?' He was required rounds a couple of years ago and which, un- an archbishop, they only bishops; they acted, doubtedly, will be revived now and again. Rich- they replied, not as bishops but as papal dele- ard Burton and Peter O'Toole acted up a storm gates. They then wrested the crozier staff from

Permission as the friends turned antagonists in the forms his hands while he drew from his sleeve his of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, appeal to a General Council. Thirlby said they and Henry II, King of All England. Their con-

DFMS. could admit no appeal, and the degrading rite / flict was a good medieval one dealing with the went on. Bonner scraped his fingers and nails dominance of the Church or the state. Becket, to obliterate the effects of an unction adminis-

Church who was Henry's chancellor, had been quickly tered twenty-three years before." made Archbishop so that the King could control Then, in order, Cranmer was degraged from the office. But, in office, Becket "got the mes- the ranks of priest, deacon, subdeacon, acolyte, Episcopal sage" and increasingly found himself defending exorcist, lector, and doorkeeper. We are told the the rights and powers of the Church against the that, finally, a barber shaved his head to de- of King. prive him of whatever grace a long disused One of Henry's Norman nobles had slain a tonsure may have originally given him. Bonner

Archives perfidious priest who, according to the rules of then declared that Cranmer was no lord any the game at that time, should have been tried more. To which the newly-created layman re-

2020. by the ecclesiastical courts. Becket decides that plied: "All this needed not; I had myself done this is the issue over which to throw down the with this gear long ago." Dressed in a poor gauntlet, so he announces that he will excom- yoeman-beadle's gown, "full bare and nearly

Copyright municate the noble. worn", Cranmer was turned over to the secular Hence the scene. Becket, dressed in the full authorities for incarceration and eventual burn- regalia of office in front of the high altar at the ing. cathedral, is surrounded by a host of monks in It appears that everyone of that time ad- black cowls. Each bear a long staff-candelabra. mitted that Cranmer was the best scholar With the sonorous tones of the best voice in around, and a most gentle soul. And, thanks be acting today, Burton-Becket announces that the to God, we still use the Book of Common Prayer noble is excommunicate. And then, with a great with its fulsome language and sensitive order. clanking and crashing, all of the candles are On the 21st of March, 1556, they tied him to dashed onto the hard tiles of the chancel, and the stake and lit the faggots. the lights have gone out. Viewing the scene, The way things are going, perhaps, we ought and trying to get back to the existential reali- to know about these ancient and dramatic rites. NOVEMBER 24, 1966 TMrttm BOOK REVIEWS

E. John Mohr THE NEEDS OF THE CHURCH Creation is not concerned with how Book Editor TODAY. Mowbray. $1 things began, a matter for the scien- With one exception these sermons, tists, but with God's relation to the KERYGMA AND COUNSELING, preached at Pusey House, Oxford, universe. It is the reaction of the by Thomas C. Oden. Westminster. 1954 are not a notable collection. world upon God as well as the action The excuse for their publication is of God upon the world. The spon- $5 taneity and freedom of the creature The author is concerned with re- that they were in celebration of the jubilee of the chapel at Pusey House, are assumed. God is also the re- lating the proclamation of God's re- deemer and in Christ is seen the ul- demption of man through Christ and the eightieth anniversary of the founding of the house. timate reconciliation, for confronta- Jesus to the counseling process. He tion with Christ makes man aware not only points out similarities and The outstanding sermon is that of Hugh Bishop, C. R., on "Militant of his estrangement and fills him analogies between theology and psy- with ecstasy when he is made whole. chotherapeutic psychology but clari- Laity." It is a fine statement of the Christian doctrine of the laity. Every Birch has written an excellent fies the grounds upon which these little book. He is effective in show- comparisons can be made for. The priest and congregation would be helped by hearing it. The Brother- ing how erroneous it is to think of therapist accepts the client not on the universe as a machine. He fills

publication. hood of St. Andrew could not do the narrow assumption that he is the little holes into which some privately acceptable to the therapist better than make a tract of it; dioce-

and theologians were prone to place a as a human being but on the more san papers will do well to publish it. OSCAR F. GREEN little god. He calls for a different basic assumption that he is accept- orientation and presents a religious reuse able as a human being by the cosmos, The reviewer is chairman of the dimension that cannot be in conflict or the universe, or by being itself. Commission on Ecumenical Relations, for with science. Whether he has actu- From the perspective of the Chris- Diocese of California. ally presented a synthesis is another tian faith all men are made accept- question. — LEE A. BELFORD able by God's act in Jesus Christ. NATURE AND GOD, by L. Charles required Or to cite another example, Carl Birch. Westminster. $1.45 Rogers the therapist speaks of (a) The author, a distinguished Aus- MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE, by the self-actuating tendency, (b) per- tralian biologist, acknowledges his Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Har- sonality incongruence, and (c) dis- indebtedness to A. N. Whitehead, per & Row. $3.50

Permission tortion in awareness, defense, and Charles Hartshorne, and Paul Tillich TEILHARD DE CHARDIN AND anxiety, which are analogous to (a) as he attempts a synthesis of science THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST, man's original condition and possi- and religion. He shows how the by Christopher F. Mooney. Har- bility (imago dei), (b) the fall, and concept of a perfectly planned and DFMS. per & Row. $6 / (c) the bondage of the will. The efficient universe that operated by analogies are quite interesting. its own laws with God quite on the Man's Place in Nature by Fr. Teil- Following Karl Barth, and his outside was destroyed by the Dar- hard de Chardin is the latest of the

Church treatment is excellent, he turns the winian revolution. Trial and error in translations of his work to emerge analogy around so that therapeutic survival pulls the props from under in English, and in this book he con- acceptance follows and is measured a teleological concept of the universe centrates on certain themes that he by God's self-disclosure, and as might for cats do not exist to catch mice has already considered in earlier

Episcopal be expected, he rejects the element but exist because they catch mice volumes, but here he examines more of man's initiative and the use of well. Of course, Darwin had many in detail the fundamental problem the the analogia entis of Thomas Aquin- gaps in his story, which was eagerly described by the work's title. Teil- of as and many liberal Protestants. If pointed out, but now the gaps are hard writes: "As science progresses, one is deeply grounded in the Chris- being filled. It is possible to see the question of man's place in na- tian faith, he may be more convinced evolution taking place in a labora- ture becomes continually more impor- tory. Dozens of new species of Archives of what he already believes and see tant and fascinating to us. Man is, man more clearly in relation to God's plants have been created. The muta- in appearance, a 'species,' no more saving grace. tion of genes is far more prolific than a twig, an offshoot from the 2020. However, a humanistic therapist than man had imagined. There is branch of the primates — but one may well ask why God has to be no longer assumed a radical dispari- that we find to be endowed with introduced at all since his working ty but rather a continuum between absolutely prodigious properties. suppositions pertaining to man are the inorganic and the living, human Something ordinary; and yet pushed Copyright adequate for his purposes. That is and other life. A scientific revolu- to even more than the extraordinary." the trouble with Barth. He removes tion has occurred although the thought-patterns of many scientists Fr. Christopher Mooney's book on the links between what man can Teilhard's thought is welcome as it know by himself and what God dis- are so well established that they refuse to see the obvious. is the best book to date on the closes, and makes it so easy to French Jesuit's views of nature, dispose of God altogether. Having dispelled certain false con- man, and God. Fr. Mooney presents Fortunately, Oden is not a con- ceptions of the universe, he turns to in a most readable form how "the sistent Barthian and leaves room for man for in effecting a synthesis the most traditional Christianity, ex- truths that can be intuited. In fact, starting point must be, not the elec- pressed in Baptism, the Cross and he treats God's self-disclosure as an tron or the amoeba, but man himself. the Eucharist, can be interpreted so expanded instance of therapeutic Man experiences an ultimate con- as to embrace all that is best in the acceptance. cern; he experiences God as the love aspirations which are characteristic — LEE A. BELFORD that sustains his qualitative life; of our age." — JOHN E. SKINNER Dr. Belford is Chairman of the God as the lure to higher concern. Dr. Skinner is Professor of Phil- Department of Religious Education Providence is not an assertion made osophical Theology, Philadelphia Di- of New York University. at the beginning but an experience. vinity School Fourteen THB WITNESS URGE CONTINUATION able for Protestant services in life and to prepare for the new OF CDGM PROGRAM Catholic hospitals. foundation along Cistercian lines. * An 18-member executive CISTERCIAN ORDER For much of that time he committee of clergymen, civil FOR ANGLICANS lived a solitary life, though he rights leaders and others con- was allowed to speak to groups cerned with poverty has been •k A new religious order to be about the monastic life for men. formed "to press for a re-fund- known as the Anglican Cisterci- ing" of the head start program an Community has been estab- The new community intends conducted by the Children De- lished in Kent under a monk to follow the principles of the velopment Group of Mississippi. who has lived virtually a soli- Cistercian reform of the monas- tic life in the west. Members' The committee was announced tary existence for six years in preparing it. vows provide for stability in the by its chairman, Truman B. monastery and obedience to the Douglass, executive vice-presi- The new community is estab- lished at Ewell monastery. The rule of St. Benedict in the com- dent of the United Church board mon life. for homeland ministries. inauguration service was pre- sided over by Bishop Robert Monks will stay at the monas- publication. Among other clergymen on the committee are Dr. Martin Mortimer of Exeter, bishop-pro- tery except for urgent business. and Luther King, Jr., head of the tector of the Society of St. No pastoral work will be under- Southern Christian Leadership Francis and chairman of the taken except among private re- reuse Conference; and Bishop Paul Church of England's advisory treatants, and the daily program for Moore, suffragan of Washington. council for religious communi- will maintain a balance between prayer, reading and manual Primary objective of the com- ties. First monk in the new order work. required mittee, said Douglass, is to get re-financing of the program is Father Aelred, who has been The habit, although newly from the Office of Economic transferred from the Society of designed, incorporates the es- Opportunity which suspended St. Francis. Since 1960 the sential features of monastic Permission funds after it questioned ad- society has permitted him to dress, with a black tunic, white ministrative and fiscal policies test his vocation to the monastic hood and leather girdle. The

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Church HAS MASSES JANUARY 5, 1967 * St. Luke's Hospital center THE WITNESS FOR THAT DATE CANNOT BE MAILED TO has announced plans for the YOU UNLESS YOUR ZIP CODE IS ON YOUR STENCIL. THERE Episcopal regular celebration of the IS NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT SINCE IT IS A POST the Roman Catholic mass in the hos- OFFICE REGULATION THAT BECOMES EFFECTIVE ON of pital chapel for its Catholic pa- JANUARY 1. tients. According to the Rev. Carle- Archives ton J. Sweetser, director of ZIP religious service at St. Luke's, 2020. the use of the chapel for Cath- IF YOUR PRESENT WRAPPER DOES NOT HAVE IT USE olic services is a dramatic step forward in the growing dialogue THE FORM BELOW AND MAIL AT ONCE Copyright between Protestants and Catho- lics. The first mass was on Nov. The Witness Tunkhannock, Pa. 18657 13 and was offered by the director of the hospital aposto- late for the Catholic archdiocese Name of New York, Msgr. James Wilder. In the future masses Street will be said by the hospital's official Catholic chaplains. City - Msgr. Wilder said that he is now working on arrangements State - ZIP to make similar courtesies avail-

NOVEMBEH 24, 1966 FtftM* first two postulants were ad- One never knows on whom the coercion by governmental agen- mitted to the monastery on the axe will fall next, and it is par- cies." day after the inauguration. ticularly alarming that no He emphasized that "no in- reason for the deportation was stances of such pressure have SOUTH AFRICAN ORDERS given." been brought to our attention." OUSTER OF ANGLICAN The Anglican dean of Pre- In a statement issued at their toria said the expulsion of Lil annual meeting in Washington, • Dutch-born Father Pierre would be a tremendous loss to Lil, an Anglican priest, was the Catholic bishops contended the city's youth. "He had a gift that "government activities in- served with a deportation order of making the Christian faith by two plain clothes policemen creasingly seek aggressively to relevant to them in daily life, persuade and even coerce the at his home near the Anglican of showing Christianity is not cathedral in Pretoria. underpriviledged" to practice confined to what we do on our birth control. No reason for the deportation knees or in public worship but order was given, and South They also warned of "dangers how we live our lives. That's to the right of privacy posed by Africa's minister of interior saw his particular message. It is no need to explain the eviction. governmental birth control pro- tragic that this kind of ministry grams" and urged the govern- publication. Lil was given ten days to appears to be unwelcome in our ment to exercise a neutral role and present a petition of protest to so-called Christian country." "whereby it neither penalizes the minister against the order. nor promotes birth control." reuse The 29-year-old priest said, "My CATHOLIC BISHOPS Espy stated that a "free deci- for wife and I are terribly shocked ARE ANSWERED by the order; we are unable at sion regarding family planning this stage to decide what to do * An official of the National is often curtailed by the lack of required about it." Council of Churches took issue adequate information and serv- In Pretoria, the Christian with the U.S. Catholic bishops' ices." ministers society, an interde- charge that the federal adminis- The NCC, he continued, "has nominational body, decided to tration was pressuring birth spoken clearly on behalf of the Permission call a meeting to discuss the control upon welfare recipients. right of all couples to have deportation order as "a matter access to such information and R. H. Edwin Espy, general services. Only then can there DFMS. of urgency." In announcing / secretary of the NCC, said that this, the Rev. Robert Orr, Pres- be a free decision to use or not "while we concur with the to use according to the dictates byterian executive, said he as- Catholic bishops about the moral

Church of one's own conscience. sociated himself with the An- freedom of a couple to choose glican Church's grave concern the size of their family, we "Birth control is not a univer- at deportation, "especially since think it unfortunate that their sal obligation, but responsible

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