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No anomaly here unions were racist, sexist and indifferent CA issue priceless Your June editorial quotes Nathaniel to low yield folk such as migrant labor The June 1987 issue of THE WITNESS Pierce: "Some Episcopalians — Bush, and domestics. is priceless, and I need five more copies. Weinberger, Poindexter, North ~ sup- Episcopalians were (and are) racist, We have a Peace Coalition here in Erie port our government's efforts in sexist and indifferent to low yield eco- and I want to share this information Nicaragua ... the Episcopal Church in nomic groups. Indeed, there is a contin- about Central America — as our mem- Nicaragua is a part of our church uing indifference by bishops of the bers are eager to learn facts. Thanks for community ... I can think of no more church to racist, sexist and economic THE WITNESS. We read every word. important task for the Standing Com- practices. The "unity" of the House of Martha Kate Barnhart mission on Peace for the Episcopal Bishops has been more important than Erie, Pa.

publication. Church to address than that situation in the unity of the Body of Christ. The which Episcopalian is killing Epis- House of Bishops found unity with die Issues widely read and copalian." The editorial said, "Pierce Church of Rome and the Church of We definitely would be poorer without points out an anomaly in the present de- England more important than unity with THE WITNESS. We are a small church reuse bacle where government officials are se- the women of the Body of Christ. So in rural Utah, where few current social for cretly funding terrorist warfare - in when Bush, Weinberger, North and issues are readily apparent, but each essence, Christians are helping to kill Poindexter act the same way, why copy of THE WITNESS is read by sev- should such be an anomaly? They have required Christians." eral people. Our Sacramentalist reads it. Queries: Does being an Episcopalian learned from dieir Fathers in God which My husband, a lay reader who is li- necessarily prove that one is a Christian? unity is more important. censed to preach, reads it I read it, and Would it be a less important task if the Christians or Episcopalians killing it helps me to be more articulate in Permission Episcopalians (or Christians) were Christians or Episcopalians an anomaly? working with the vestry and writing for killing folk that were not Episcopalians Shucks, 'tis as Christian as Holy our diocesan newsletter. Especially (or Christians)? Since when is it an Communion!

DFMS. since we do not employ seminary- / anomaly for Christians to kill one an- The Rev. McRae Werth trained clergy, we need THE WITNESS other, for Episcopalians to kill Episco- Blue Hill, Me. to broaden our understanding of what palians? Church the church can and should be. Thank The U.S. Civil War, World Wars I Pierce responds you for your fine magazine. and II, the Bay of Pigs, the invasion of The spectacle of Christian killing Chris- Ruth Thurston the Dominican Republic, Spanish tian and Episcopalian killing Episco-

Episcopal Moab, Utah American War, invasion of Grenada, palian in Nicaragua is not unique, as the Vietnam War, etc. back through the

of McRae Werth notes. War is rarely a endless wars between and within Chris- solution to anything, and at some point Applauds column tian countries were presided over and die Christian community must rise up Whenever I receive THE WITNESS I blessed by Popes, "Protestants" and am programmed to turn immediately to Archives and say "ENOUGH!" Killing is indeed kings and princes crowned and blessed seen as being compatible with Chris- A Luta Continua by Barbara Harris. While I am never disappointed, I felt 2020. by the church. Christians and Christian tianity in our time; that is something churches, at least from the Constantinian worth pondering, even praying about that I was especially rewarded when I settlement, have identified themselves The Rev. Nathaniel Pierce read her column in the June issue. Not with the political unity within which only was her rapier wit at its very best,

Copyright Brookline, Mass. they found themselves. (THE WITNESS applauds Pierce's re- but the subject matter addressed Christians have deluded themselves as sponse. Actually, the choice of the ("Human suffering ~ new growth in- fully as Marxists or Communists have word "anomaly" was the editor's, not dustry") was one whose significance deluded themselves. Workers of the Pierce's, and was, perhaps, misleading. might well have escaped the notice of world marched off to kill other workers But in the true definition of Christianity, even the most sophisticated readers. just as cheerfully as Christians and Epis- the killing described in the June edito- These are indeed strange times in copalians have marched off to kill rial would, indeed, be anomalous. — which we live. Thanks for reminding us Christians and Episcopalians. U.S. Ed.) who profess and call ourselves Chris-

THE WITNESS tians just how very bizarre they are. Our to express their sexuality responsibly. gives women the same invitation He work is clearly cut out for us! The Episcopal Church should bless gives males. And even in Minneapolis The Rev. Canon Harold T. Lewis committed faithful relationships of in 1976 it was obvious that many were Staff Officer for Black Ministries gay/lesbian persons. If two people are more comfortable with a Jesus firmly Episcopal Church Center willing to dedicate their lives to each nailed to the Cross where He would stay other permanently, then they should be put, not step down and interfere. Al- encouraged in their decision to marry, though the women had won the right to Add gay bashing regardless of orientation. I have experi- be priested, and took Jesus into places I would add to the May A Luta Continue enced the incredible power of God's He'd never gone before where He could column by Barbara Harris, increasing love with my own spouse, Joseph. The heal and comfort and be heard, many violence to gays and lesbians. Going challenge, then, to the gay/lesbian continued to suffer for the privilege. publication. along with the religious right are their community is the lifting up of this type So, supposing, today, if all women of and fellow travelers ~ the U.S. Supreme relationship as a responsible use of sex- the church, priested and lay, took it into Court and the Roman Church. uality. THE WITNESS' advocacy of their heads at the same time to be reuse Last summer's court decision in the this issue and other issues of social nurturing mothers in order to help the for Georgia sodomy case and recent pro- change exemplifies its integrity in fol- church out of its present dilemma? nouncements from Rome seem to have lowing Jesus' call to be fishers of all Supposing that without fuss or rancor infused some with a patriotic and reli- (Mt. 18:19). and in the interests of peace, they left required gious zeal to attack gays and lesbians. Patrick Sen wing the church? And very quietly and AIDS gives the bigots another excuse to Notre Dame, Ind. peacefully worshipped by themselves? attack. What divisive issue would be left? The

Permission From the gilded throne and TV pulpit squabble about the 1928 Prayerbook and political stage, "I do not condone vi- What if women left? could be resolved by letting everyone olence," has a worse than meaningless In the reflecting occasioned by the news use any form they wished DFMS. / sound to me. that some of our family is choosing to simultaneously. The great raised din of Jerry A. Boyd be separate from us (or else) there is a male voices competing for the religious Sacramento, Cal. bittersweet strain of historically familiar edge would be something to hear, but I Church paranoia. As a mother, whenever pint- would be far away. Most women would size hitlerisms cropped up I knew how be. Although, I daresay a few might Bless gay relationships to deal with them and make them go sacrifice and stay, not trusting the altar Episcopal What a joy to receive the May issue of away. But of course, in the church, we linens to anyone else (no lipstick on the THE WITNESS and realize that I have are all adults and everyone is free to tell those purificators would be a compen- of been a subscriber for two years. In that everyone else where to get off. John sation). time, the overall quality of the magazine Steinbeck once wrote of a bunch of Still, a healed, though womanless, has improved, from good to excellent overtired, overstressed journalists that church could present some problems. Archives With THE WITNESS I share the hope there was no one there to spank them Over one half -- 63% in fact - of church of seeing a woman bishop soon, the be- membership is at present female.

2020. and send them to bed. But combined lief that apartheid will end, and the with my memories of coping is a kind of Women tend to live longer and leave commitment for a more just society. universal guilt unique to womanhood in bequests. They have built up quite a Furthermore, I am encouraged by THE this matter before the church. The cushion of contribution to the church Copyright WITNESS' commitment to gay/lesbian problem is Female. All nurturing moth- through the years. Suppose they were to rights. Just as the church must be prod- ers share the knowledge that we could, take the United Thank Offering with ded, albeit gently, gay/lesbian persons if we chose, make this problem go away. them when they left, considering their must be challenged as well. Church- By going away ourselves. own requests for granting? Or the people must be reminded of Bishop Think of it Church Periodical Club? Suppose they Browning's position that there will be Women have always dared to hear withdrew the Triennial Meeting from no outcasts in this church; likewise, and respond to a Call. But not until the vicinity of General Convention ~ gay/lesbian people must be challenged 1976 has the church believed that Jesus Continued on page 14

September 1987 THE WITNESS .. .••

EDITOR Miry Lou Suhor

SENIOR CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Robert L DeWitt

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PUBLISHER Christie Institute exposes secret war Episcopal Church Publishing Company 6 Susan Pierce

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THE WITNESS Editorial

The cost of Contra aid

'olonel North, did you say that you bought your publication. daughters leotards with those traveler's checks you got from

and the Contras? Next time you go to buy pantyhose, think of 7-year-old reuse Elda Sanchez of Pantasma, Nicaragua, whose leg was blown for off when the truck she was riding in hit a landmine planted by the Contras. Other casualties in that explosion: six dead and 12 others, required who like Elda, had one or both legs amputated. Elda's fa- ther, Amancio, also lost a leg in that explosion. Contra mines have produced 2,000 amputees — mostly women and Permission children. President Reagan declared in his August speech to the

DFMS. nation, "I am totally committed to the democratic resistance / - the freedom fighters ~ and their pursuit of democracy in Nicaragua." Church For those who might lend any credence to the President's words that the Contras are dedicated to freedom and democ- racy, have we got a story for you! It's about a lawsuit initi- Episcopal ated by the Christie Institute, a faith-based public policy the network in Washington, D.C. against assorted CIA agents, of military adventurers, drug lords and right-wing soldiers of fortune - a "Secret Team" that has supported the Contras

Archives through arms sales and drug dealing. We presume that our readers, after reading our lead story, 2020. will run, not walk, to the nearest phone, contact their Congressional representatives and insist that they stop Con- tra aid and support the Central American presidents' peace Copyright plan. •

Elda Sanchez, age 7

Those wishing to help purchase artificial limbs for Nicaraguan amputees can write to "Walk in Peace," Box 68, Comer, Ga. (Photo by Paul Jef- frey/CEPAD, courtesy Sojourners.)

September 1987 Christie lawsuit exposes secret war

O',n a May evening in 1984, ABC cameraman Tony Avirgan lay covered with blood, severely wounded, sur- rounded by dead and injured fellow journalists. A bomb blast had ripped through the small hut in La Penca, a Contra base camp in southern Nicaragua, moments before Contra commander Eden Pastora was to make a publication. statement to the assembled press. Pas- and tora, a former Sandinista military officer and then leader of the Costa Rican-based reuse Revolutionary Democratic Alliance, for (ARDE), was about to denounce a rival Christie Contra faction, the Nicaraguan Demo- Institute's Daniel Sheehan required cratic Force (FDN) and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency for trying to force & Sara Nelson ARDE to join the CIA-dominated FDN. both were responsible for bringing in Sara Nelson, the Christie Institute's Three journalists died in the bomb- Central American refugees who were executive director, is currently traveling Permission ing ~ including Linda Frazier, a Reli- "known communist terrorists" and posed around the country to raise public con- gious News Service correspondent from "a potential threat to the national secu- sciousness about the Secret Team and DFMS.

/ the United States. Pastora and Avirgan rity of the United States ... in the event the lawsuit the Institute is directing on were among the 20 seriously injured. that President Reagan had to initiate a behalf of Avirgan and Honey against the After three months in the hospital, Avir- direct military action by U.S. forces into Team. Filed in May, 1986, in a Miami Church gan returned home to Costa Rica, and Central America." Sheehan first Federal Court, the suit named many key joined his wife, U.S. journalist Martha laughed at the accusations, but soon re- suspects in the Iran/Contra arms deal six Honey, in the investigation she had ini- alized that they were not a joke. He months before the scandal surfaced in Episcopal tiated of those responsible for the La launched an investigation to find out the press. the

of Penca bombing. what the government was planning. "What we're looking at is a renegade Meanwhile, in Brownsville, Tex., at- Although Sheehan was tracking leads foreign policy," she said, "that's out of torney Daniel Sheehan came across hundreds of miles away from Avirgan control in our democratic institutions. Archives some disturbing allegations while and Honey, their separate quests con- We are confronting a growing national preparing the defense for Stacy Merkt, a verged. They eventually found them- security state apparatus that wants to 2020. Catholic lay worker, and others involved selves on a single trail leading into the control things no matter what our demo- in the Sanctuary Movement, who were shadow world of the "Secret Team," a cratic institutions say." on trial for helping undocumented group of U.S. military and CIA officials. Nelson explained that the case against Copyright refugees fleeing persecution in El Sal- This team, according to the Christie In- the Secret Team, due to go to trial vador. Sheehan, chief legal counsel for stitute, acting alternately with govern- around Easter, 1988, is complex and the Christie Institute, a faith-based pub- ment approval and on their own, for 25 immense. Twenty-nine defendants are lic policy law group situated in Wash- years "have waged secret war, toppled named in the suit, ranging from media ington, D.C., had been visited by a local governments, trafficked in drugs, assas- darlings like Maj. Gen. Richard Secord Methodist minister who said an FBI sinated political enemies, stolen from to secretive international drug dealers, agent had warned him to stay away from the U.S. government and subverted the shady businessmen and soldiers of for- the Sanctuary Movement and the will of the Constitution, the Congress, tune, all wrapped up in a fanatical cru- Catholic Church because, the agent said, and the American people." sade to destroy the bogeyman of "world

THE WITNESS Protestant supporters as well as people by Susan Pierce who don't identify with any denomina- tion but share a common morality in the area of social justice and public policy communism." Reading the affidavit set ethics," Nelson said. forth by Sheehan is like climbing down into a dank demimonde whose denizens The CIA/Contra drug scam The La Penca bombing lawsuit is the traffic in human lives and the fate of Perhaps the most suppressed story largest and most ambitious case the In- countries to gain power and wealth. in the Iran/Contra hearings has been stitute has ever undertaken. Sheehan is But the Christie Institute is used to the CIA/Contra drug scam - a sordid a veteran of social justice trials -- he de- tale involving a Secret Team of intel- fighting for social justice against the fended the Berrigan brothers for anti- ligence agents, military personnel, Vietnam activity; defended The New powers that be. It was founded in 1980 drug lords, and sundry right-wing York Times in the Pentagon Papers case; by the team that organized the Karen soldiers of fortune. Silkwood case. Silkwood, a union orga- Sara Nelson, executive director of defended American Indian Movement publication. nizer at the Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corpo- the Christie institute, a faith-based leaders Russell Means and Dennis and policy center in Washington, D.C, Banks, and represented inmates at New ration plutonium plant in Oklahoma, electrified an audience of Episcopal died in a mysterious car accident on her York's Attica Prison on the day of the reuse activists at the Under One Roof con- riots. ference in St. Louis recently when

for way to meet a reporter from The New York Times. Her family recently won a she described the lawsuit the Insti- The Institute is prosecuting the 29 de- $1.8 million settlement from Kerr- tute has filed against a Secret Team fendants under the RICO (Racketeer In- of 29 defendants, described in the required fluence and Corrupt Organization) Act, McGee after proving the company was accompanying story. responsible for Silkwood's severe pluto- which is the cornerstone of an effort to THE WITNESS has kept a file on prove a 25-year history of racketeering nium contamination. the case, and when Nelson and and bring to justice the members of the

Permission Nelson, at the time a labor coordinator Daniel Sheehan, Christie's chief legal for the National Organization for counsel, were in Philadelphia re- illegal Contra support network involved Women, helped get the Silkwood case cently, Susan Pierce and Mary Lou in gunrunning, drug smuggling, murder

DFMS. Suhor contacted them for an update.

/ and other crimes. rolling and became its key fundraiser. If the government-in-shadows out- Sheehan, chief legal counsel on the case, lined in this article is to be exposed What Sheehan, Honey, Avirgan and odier Christie investigators uncovered is Church was a Harvard Law School graduate and the Secret Team prosecuted, the who, after working on Wall Street and Christie Institute will need financial absolutely chilling. When her husband for flamboyant defense lawyer F. Lee support and prayers. Key witnesses was injured at La Penca, Honey was have been known to be kidnapped, determined to find the perpetrator. Re- Episcopal Bailey, turned to his faith after being tortured and murdered by the mer- ports blamed a Basque terrorist working the disillusioned by his experiences in the chants of heroin and terrorism. of legal profession. He attended Harvard For further Information write the for the Sandinistas, but she soon discov- Divinity School and was working for the Christie Institute, 1324 North Capitol ered he had been under arrest in Europe U.S. Jesuit Office of Social Ministry in St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20002, (202) at the time of the bombing. Archives 797-8106. The affidavit on the case Washington, D.C. at the time he joined The big break came when Avirgan against the Secret Team is available and Honey were contacted by a source

2020. the Silkwood case. for $10. Sheehan's commitment reflects the named "David," a young Nicaraguan Institute's philosophy which, Nelson Contra who was part of the group re- gether in harmony. He was hopeful that sponsible for the bombing. David

Copyright said, "is motivated and based on Judeo- Christian values. We only take cases our ability to comprehend this phe- wanted out because the group was plan- that set important precedents for the so- nomenon would develop, and that our ning to blow up the U.S. Embassy in cial justice community." evolving capacity to understand our Costa Rica, kill U.S. Ambassador Lewis The name Christie comes from a con- oneness would win out in a race with Tambs and then blame the Sandinistas. cept expressed by the noted Jesuit pale- our evolving capacity to destroy our- David told them the La Penca bomber ontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. selves; we share his hopeful vision," was a professional hit man, a Libyan "He talked about a bonding phe- said Nelson. named Galil Amac, who had gained ad- nomenon in the universe, that he called a The Institute is an interfaith organiza- mission to the press conference by pos- Christie force, that holds everything to- tion. "We have Jewish, Catholic and ing as a Danish journalist. Hired from

September 1987 Tfaenty-Fivelfears of the Secret Team publication. and reuse for required Permission DFMS. / Church Episcopal the : 19708-1980 Soudi Africa 1983 - Present of Cuba: 1959-1965 (Me: 19711973 Tust "contra" war — code-named "Operation 40" and bier Shaddey and dines direct the CIAs "Bade II" strategy, super- Vang Pao opium imds from Southeast Asia and illegal weapons Former QA Director ttilliam Casey reported)'arranges deal "Operation Mongoose"— is mounted under direction of Vif vising the 1973 overthrow of Salvador AOende's democratically- profits from the Middle Kast are secrrthdeposited into hank for South Africa to ty weapons to the contras. Sato Freighters, President Nton Nixon and Mafia "Don" Santo Traffirante set up elected government. Later, in 1984, Secret tarn members recruit accounts at the Nugen Hand bank in Australia Shaddey and a South Africa cargo company, provided plans to Southern Air private •'sub-operation" to assassinate Cuba's revolutionary right-wing terrorist Amac (.alii from Chilean military' |«>l«v to Secret learn members are implicated in destabilizing the Australian Transport, a ampam used In' the Secret Team to ferry amte to Archives leaden. Members of "Shooter Team" include Rafael Quinten), execute the La Penca bombing. Labour government in 1975. thecontras. Mix Rodriguez, Luis Posada, and iiture ttatiTgale burglars tern: 1976-1979 Nicaragua: 197S Present Angofac 1984-PRsm Operation is supervised by Shadow and Clines. In return for the South Africans providing assistance to the 2020. After Vietnam, Shaddey's Secret Team - including Edwin ShaAJey and members of Secret Hani arm dilator Arcetasio Southeast Asia: 1965-1975 Wilson — move to 'Shran to conduct private, non-CIA activities to Somoza after President Carter and Congress ban such aid. After Nicaraguan contras, CIA Director Casey asked Saudi Arabian lung ShacUey, Clines. Seconl and Singlaub direct the OAs secret help the Shah's dreaded secret police identify and assassinate Somoza's overthrow, members of this team arm and advise the Fahd to provide aid to the South African-backed IINTTA rebels wars. In Laos, Shaddey and Clines back Vang Pao, a major opium opponents of the regime. dictator's ex-National Guardsmen until the CIA tabs over running fighting the Angolan government, banian arms profits may abo have been diverted to LOTTA trafficker. Drug money used to train indigenous Hmong tribesmen The Mid* East 1976-Present the contra war against the Sandinista government Wien Congress Copyright ThePhUppines: 1986-rraent in guerrilla warfare, inducting political assassination 100,000 non- In the late- 1970s, then-Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard cuts off CIA contra aid in 1984, U CoL Oliver North, under die combatant "communist sympathizers" are assassinated in Laos, Secord supervised the sale of U S weapons to Middle Eastern direction of Reagan, Bush, Neese, and Casey reaches out to Smgbub encourages and organtes tight «

THE WITNESS DINA, the dreaded Chilean Secret Po- help in filing a lawsuit to stop the net- shadow figures who directed illegal CIA lice, Galil allegedly worked out of an work responsible for the La Penca activities around the world, backed the estate in Costa Rica owned by a bombing and David's death. drug warlord Vang Pao in Laos during wealthy, conservative rancher named Sheehan's own investigation had un- the Vietnam War. John Hull, who maintained dual covered other alarming information From 1965 to 1975, the Team allegedly U.S./Costa Rican citizenship. Hull's which threatened a democratic mode of got Van Pao's product to the United ranch, reportedly, was a base for Contra U.S. government and set the stage for a States where it was sold through Mafia terrorist activities. David's story was military takeover. He discovered that connections. The profits were used to borne out when the Costa Rican police the Federal Emergency Management train Hmong tribesmen in anti-commu- raided a ranch managed by Hull and Agency (FEMA), authorized by Presi- nist guerrilla warfare, which included captured a group of mercenaries and a dent Reagan, was "actually planning political assassination. According to the cache of weapons. how to control domestic dissent in the Institute, thousands of civilians sus- With David's help, Avirgan and event of an invasion in Central America pected of being "communist sympathiz- Honey learned that Hull's ranch was by the United States," said Nelson. ers" were assassinated in Laos, Cambo- publication. also a mini-airport and major conduit for If there were an invasion and should dia and Thailand. and drugs and weapons. Cocaine, sold in the Reagan declare a "State of Domestic "During the Vietnam War, there was United States to fund the activities, was National Emergency," the plan, called at one point an influx of pure heroin into reuse funneled through Costa Rica via planes REX '84, provided for the creation of the United States, especially into the for that allegedly landed at an airstrip on the "State Defense Force" units, a national Black community. It was so pure it was ranch. The drugs were then either flown police force superceding all other law killing people. It was also killing American soldiers in Vietnam," Nelson required directly to the U.S. or transferred to enforcement agencies. Also 10 detention boats carrying frozen shrimp and taken centers would be refurbished to incar- pointed out She emphasized that be- to Miami, where, Nelson said, "they cerate undocumented Central American cause the Reagan Adminstration has so were unloading over a ton of cocaine a refugees. Civil liberties would be sus- many connections to the Secret Team, Permission week." pended under this "shadow govern- its much-publicized "Say No to Drugs" The investigation also revealed that ment." And Sheehan found that three campaign has a hollow ring.

DFMS. states - Alabama, Louisiana and / arms were being shipped through the Southeast Asia is not the only area the ranch - in a guns in, dope out arrange- Texas - had established "State Defense trail of the Team twists through. "It's a ment — as well as C-4 explosives such Force" units, but that the only people global investigation," said Nelson. Church as Galil used in the bomb. But as Avir- who knew about them and were signing Since 1959, when then Vice-President gan and Honey got closer to the truth, up were "ultra right-wing, paramilitary Richard Nixon and the National Security the merchants of death lashed back. types." Council directed a covert war against Episcopal David was kidnapped and murdered; The disturbing information uncovered Cuba, including attempted assassina- the

of Avirgan and Honey began receiving so by Avirgan and Honey and enlarged on tions against Fidel Castro, the Team has many death threats that they sent their by the Institute, revealed how deeply the been busy around the world. A figure children to live in the United States. network or "Secret Team" was involved who pops up again and again is Archives They published a report on the La in the drug trade. They learned that Theodore Shackley. Penca investigations and were immedi- Colombian drug lords offered the Team Shackley was CIA station chief in 2020. ately sued by Hull. But the Costa Rican $1 million to assassinate Ambassador Miami during the covert war against Supreme Court threw Hull's case out. Tambs because when he was ambas- Cuba from 1959 to 1965. After working Then Avirgan and Honey were the vic- sador to Colombia, he lobbied for a in Southeast Asia, he and Clines coordi- Copyright tims of a crude and somewhat ludicrous treaty that would allow the drug lords to nated the 1973 military coup of the attempt to implicate them as drug deal- be extradited and tried in the United socialist Allende government in Chile. ers for the Sandinistas by sending them States. After Vietnam, Shackley and the Team a package filled with cocaine, purport- Some of the defendants named in the moved to Iran, where they worked in a edly from a high ranking Sandinista of- suits are old hands at drug dealing. Ac- private, non-official capacity as consul- ficial ~ Tomas Borge, minister of the cording to the Institute's information, tants to the Shah's brutal secret police. interior. Maj. Gen. John Singlaub and Secord of Shadow figures like Shackley are elu- After David was killed, Avirgan and Iran/Contra hearings fame, plus sive and hard to trace because, Nelson Honey went to the Christie Institute for Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines, Continued on page 22

September 1987 Faith of our fathers? Constitutional wrongs by Charles V. Willie

of justice as a goal of our nation-state, it prescribed how to achieve justice by means of a system of checks and bal- • • • ances. Reinhold Niebuhr said "a simple Christian moral- publication. ism counsels (people) to be unselfish; (but) a profounder

and of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, Christian faith must encourage (people) to create systems establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for of justice which will save society." The system created by reuse the common defense, promote the general welfare, and the Constitution to establish justice was the Supreme for secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our Court and a network of lower courts. The purpose of the posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Court, according to the Constitution, is to achieve "equity" which Webster defines as a "state or quality of being fair." required United States of America. The Court enforces the law. But it must enforce the law in a way that is fair. A court that is unfair is unjust. Such a he Constitution was enacted in convention by the court would be in violation of the Constitution. By creating Permission unanimous consent of the states present on Sept. 17,1787 a system of courts to achieve equity, the Constitution ful- and became the law of the land when New Hampshire filled its religious commitment to justice.

DFMS. became the ninth state to ratify on June 21, 1788. Let us

/ The Constitution ventured its own definition of equity briefly analyze the Constitution in terms of the principles — the entitlement of each citizen to all privileges and all on which it is based. immunities. This means that there cannot be any official Church First, the Constitution of the United States is, in essence, privileges of a majority to which a minority is not entitled. a religious document as well as a political instrument. The There cannot be lawful rights of Whites to which Blacks preamble tells us that the Constitution was written to and Browns are not entitled. There cannot be immunities Episcopal establish justice. Justice, according to Joseph Fletcher in for the rich, sanctioned by public law, to which the poor do the Situation Ethics, is love distributed. Martin Luther King

of not have access. said, "Love is the most durable power in the world ... the Public sentiment may endorse inequity and a legislative only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." majority could enact an inequitable public law. But the

Archives Love is a basic concept of religion; it is what religion is system of courts must strike such laws down, for the courts all about. If justice is love-in-action and the Constitution were created as a means of achieving constitutional justice 2020. establishes justice, then the Constitution is essentially a — a justice which is fair. religious document, despite the first amendment which What does this say to us today, two centuries after the proscribes Congress from making any law respecting Constitution was ratified? What does the Constitution as a Copyright establishment of religion. In fact, it was unnecessary for "religious" document mean? If its goal to establish justice Congress to favor any particular religious group for it had had been religiously followed, would this nation have incorporated love and justice, the foundation of all re- experienced the Watergate and Iran-Contra affairs? ligions, into the basic law of the land. Recognizing that power is potentially demonic, the The Constitution not only identified the establishment writers of the Constitution separated powers among three branches of the federal government, between federal and state governments, and between lower and higher federal Charles V. Willie is Professor of Education and Urban Studies at the courts. This separation prevents the demonic possibilities Harvard University Graduate School of Education. of an all-powerful person or agency.

10 THE WITNESS South Africa is a contemporary example of the demonic lished on justice, but embraced slavery. actions that tend to flow from an all-powerful White pop- Dwight Dumond has written that "slavery was said to be ulation unchecked by a Black population. Nazi Germany a political question. Having once taken that position, is a past example of demonic actions that tend to ac- Southern churchmen shunned like the plague all dis- company an all-powerful Aryan population unchecked by cussion of the sin of slavery... Having surrendered their a Jewish population. Unshared power always is poten- time-honored function of condemning both private and tially demonic. public immorality in this area, the Southern churches The system of checks and balances prescribed in the sprang to the defense of the system." Dumond reported Constitution is a check against demonic rule unconcerned that "the Baptist churches in their corporate capacities with justice. owned 125,000 slaves that were hired out to support their From time to time, government officials have forgotten pastorates and foreign missionaries." He concludes, "the that there is a holy presence in government. The sep- Christian churches sanctified a system lacking in justice aration of church and state never was intended to be a and equity, and then surrendered up the duty to direct separation between government and religion. Good gov- moral reform." It was Dumond's belief that "the failure of publication. ernment without religion is impossible. the churches finally forced antislavery people to turn to and The Watergate and Iran-Contra affairs have raised ly- political action." Fifteen members of the Constitutional ing, deception, and dishonesty to lofty levels that have Convention, including George Washington, owned slaves. reuse been justified as appropriate means to an end. There can The domestic tranquility was shattered by Civil War, for be no trust between people who lie to each other. In his leaving more than a half million dead, because the nation testimony before the Congressional Committee investi- failed to abolish slavery when it was founded. required gating the Iran-Contra affair. Secretary of State George Another act of self-deception and lying to ourselves Shultz said. "Trust is the coin of the realm." Trust, of came during the first half of the 20th century. The Supreme course, is another basic religious concept. Court ruled in the Plessy decision of 1986 that racial Lt. Col. Oliver North admitted that he lied to the Con- groups in this nation could be required to use separate Permission gress regarding the Iran-Contra affair and Admiral John public facilities including those that were supported with Poindexter reported that he withheld information from common tax funds. The nation again fooled itself into DFMS.

/ the President of the United States. These were acts of believing it could be a democratic union, divided by race. deceit. Both claim that they are proud of what they did. But Eventually, segregation resulted in discrimination, a they circumvented the Constitutional process designed to Church gross miscarriage of justice. For such injustice, the nation prevent the clustering of demonic power. paid dearly three score years after the Plessy decision. Sen. Daniel Inouye asked: "How could this ever happen Riots, rebellions, and civil disorder prevailed in the streets in the United States?" My answer: It happens when the Episcopal of every major city. Property and lives were destroyed. nation forgets its religious foundation. Whenever this the Now, during the closing years of this century, we have of occurs, the nation has reaped a whirlwind of public chaos and social disorder. been told that the foreign policy of our democracy can be When the United States was founded, the framers of the based on lies and implemented in a deceitful way. Some Archives Constitution lied to themselves. They said that they were have advocated making the liars national heroes. But forming a democratic nation. But they also sanctioned others have contested such action, believing it would be

2020. detrimental to the nation. slavery and by law made it impossible to consider any proposal for the abolition of slavery during the first 20 What is the role of the church in public-policy making years of the nation's existence. Slavery, of course, is unjust; that is based on lies and deceit? What is the role of the Copyright it is not love-in-action. For this miscarriage of justice, the church in helping the nation to achieve justice? nation paid dearly. Four score and seven years after its When the church fails to speak out against those who lie, founding, it fought a Civil War to end slavery, which cheat, deceive and are unjust in government it becomes an should have been abolished when the Constitution was accomplice to their actions, which can only bring great written. harm to the nation. The church must recognize that justice Church people and religious institutions could have is love-in-action. A government that seeks to achieve just- influenced the Constitutional Convention to eradicate ice is a government that needs religion. The church and slavery and could have dispelled the delegates' illusion state should be separate but religion and government that they could form a more perfect union that was estab- should not. •

September 1987 11 Our not so free press

by Michael Parenti

hat does it mean to say we have carried in the Washington Post, New free to write for publications on the left, freedom of speech? We talk of this York Times and some other major news- which lack the promotional funds to freedom as an abstract right which is papers, but given the conservative reach other than small readerships, enjoyed by all persons in our society or ideological biases of the owners of most publications that are often teetering on should be enjoyed by all because the newspapers and radio and television the edge of insolvency for want of rich Constitution says so. But there is no stations, they are not likely to get as patrons and corporate advertisers. publication. such thing as freedom of speech as wide a syndication nor have as much If I were to write and speak for the and such, a freedom abstracted from the access to broadcast media as the con- next 20 years the way I have been for social and economic realities in which servatives. Thus Ralph Nader, who has the last 20 — at quite an active pace — I reuse it takes place. been around much longer than Reed will reach about 5 or 10% of the people for Speech is a form of human behavior, Irvine, has a syndicated column that that the network news pundits reach in which means it occurs in a social con- reaches only about two dozen small one evening. When it comes to free- circulation newspapers and has no required text, in interaction with other people, dom of speech, some people are on the in homes, workplaces, schools, and be- regular radio or television show. fast track and some have been put on a fore live audiences or to vast publics Least exposed of all are those of left very slow track — if it can be called a via the print and electronic media. political persuasion, who differ from track at all. Some have their voices Permission Speech is intended to reach the minds the liberals because they openly say amplified tens of millions of times, of others; this is certainly true of that the revolution in Nicaragua is while others must cup their hands and

DFMS. political speech. But some forms of shout at the passing crowd. / good for that country and would be political speech are allowed to reach good for other Third World countries. We are taught to think of freedom as mass audiences and others are system- They talk about the negative aspects of something antithetical to power — that Church atically excluded from the mass media. capitalism and what it does to people the people's rights act as a restraint on People like George Will, William at home and abroad. People of that the arbitrary power of rulers. This is Buckley, Robert Novak, William Safire ideological persuasion are not allowed true only to the extent that the people Episcopal and other conservative commentators any regular access to the major media. have some power to check rulers. Free- the

of and editorialists reach tens of millions Their views are systematically suppress- dom and power are not antithetical, of people each day. Even that right- ed or frequently grossly distorted when they are symbiotic. If one has no power, winger who has made a career out of given passing mention. one has no freedom.

Archives complaining about the media's liberal So it seems some people have more The reason Robert Novak has the biases — Reed Irvine of "Accuracy in freedom of speech than others. We on freedom to appear on three different 2020. the Media" — writes a column that the left are free to talk to each other, television shows in an average week appears in 100 newspapers around the although sometimes we are concerned and have his column (along with col- country, does a radio show that reaches our telephones might be tapped. We laborator Evans) in several hundred Copyright 70 stations, and is a frequent guest on are sometimes free to teach in univer- newspapers is because his ideological TV talk shows. sities if we are careful about what we perspective is more acceptable to those Less exposed are the more liberal say and what we assign. Even so, many who have the great wealth — that is, the commentators. A few of them are of us are purged from university posi- economic power — which enables them tions. We are free to work for labor to own and control the mass media in unions, but we usually have to keep our the United States. We on the left have Michael Parenti is author of Inventing Reality: politics carefully under wraps. We can freedom only to the extent that we have The Politics of the Mass Media, and Democracy for the Few. He is currently writing a book on U.S. speak publicly, but usually to small won certain gains and rallied our foreign policy, The Sword and the Dollar. audiences of a few hundred, and we are forces, have agitated, educated, and

12 THE WITNESS organized strikes, boycotts, demonstra- suffrage. Almost a century of agitation they may be seriously limited and in- tions, and have fought back against the and struggle was necessary to win the sufficiently developed, exist because of economic royalists so that they must franchise for women, and a bloody popular struggle against class privilege take some account of public opinion. civil war and subsequent generations and class power. We have the freedom to speak to rela- of struggle to win democratic rights for Hence, freedom of speech is a sit- tively small audiences because we have Afro-Americans, a struggle still far from uational thing. It exists in a social and fought and developed enough power to complete. It took the "Wobblie free class context, not in the abstract, which make that freedom a reality. But we speech fights" during the earlier part of is also true of democracy itself. And have no freedom to reach mass audi- this century and the industrial strug- once we understand that, we can avoid ences because popular power has not gles during the Great Depression to the mistaken logic of a Nat Hentoff penetrated the corporate citadels that bring freedom of speech to thousands who attacked Amy Carter and Abby control the mass communication uni- of local communities, where police had Hoffman and all the other people who verse. previously made a practice of physi- committed civil disobedience protest- Our freedoms are realities only so cally assaulting and incarcerating union ing CIA campus recruiters. Hentoff publication. far as we have the democratic power to organizers, syndicalists, anarchists, said they interfered with the freedom and make them so. We were never given our socialists, and Communists. of speech of those students who wanted freedom, certainly not by the framers And so it went with other freedoms to talk to the recruiters (as if students reuse of the Constitution. In this year of the and democratic gains like the eight- had no other opportunity to do so). for bicentennial it is worthwhile to recall hour day, Social Security, unemploy- Hentoff s view of freedom of speech that the Bill of Rights was not part of ment insurance, disability insurance, has no link to the realities of human the original Constitution. It had to be required and the right to collective bargaining. suffering and social justice, no con- added on after ratification — as ten All such economic rights, even though amendments. nection to class realities, to the demo- When Colonel Mason of Virginia Permission got up and proposed a bill of rights at the Constitutional Convention in

DFMS. Philadelphia in 1787, it was voted down / almost unanimously (Massachusetts abstained). Popular protests, land seiz- Church ures by the poor, food riots, and other contemporary disturbances made the men of property who gathered in Phil- Episcopal adelphia very uneasy, but such fomen- the tation also set a limit on what they could of do. The framers gave nothing to pop- ularinterests, ratherthey belatedly and

Archives reluctantly agreed during the ratifica- tion struggle to include a Bill of Rights,

2020. a concession made under the threat of democratic rebellion and in the hope that it would augment the popularity

Copyright and acceptability of the new government. In other words, the Bill of Rights was not a gift from our illustrious "Founding Fathers" but a product of class struggle. The same was true with the universal franchise. It took agitation from the 1820s to the 1840s by workers and poor farmers to abolish property qualifica- tions and win universal White male

September 1987 13 cratic struggle against the murderous Letters ... Continued from page 3 Back Issues Available: power of theCIA. Hentoff says nothing • Central America in agony: Arti- about the gains that might come by and their persistent, mournful refrain cles on U.S. involvement in the area, putting the CIA and the social forces it that the church is one family, isn't it? including F. Forrester Church, son of represents in retreat, especially the lives Let's not even go into what with- the late Sen. Frank Church, on his saved and the freedom won in Third drawal would do to the parish and the father's fight in Congress to expose parish budget! CIA covert activity during the 1970s; World countries that feel the brunt of the CIA onslaught. Yes, it might be a terrible thing if Mary Lou Suhor's account of her women left. And yet, isn't this the per- meetings with women and children in By coercively limiting CIA recruit- fect solution? Priested women could Nicaragua, many of them survivors of ment, the demonstrators made a state- continue priesting. Male priests who, Contra violence; and a look at U.S. ment that went beyond discourse and military build-up in Honduras. Also: for whatever reason did not consider Map and chronologies detailing the became part of the democratic struggle. women as valid responders to God's history of the turmoil in Central By dramatically questioning the CIA's Call, could happily tend their all male America. legitimacy on college campuses and flocks. The Archbishop of Canterbury publication. • Eleven myths about death: Lead thereby weakening (even in a small could relax. The Bishop of London could stay home. The male hierarchy and article by the Rev. Charles Meyer dis- way) its ability to promote oppressive cusses: Pulling the plug is suicide/ political orders around the world, the could vest for one another on male reuse murder; To die of dehydration or star- demonstrators were expanding the saints' days and bake their own cookies for vation in a hospital is inhumane; Dying realm of freedom. This has to be and would, I am sure, find all of these things most pleasanL And someday, is 'God's will'; Where there's life, there's measured against inconveniencing some day, there might be a dim little hope and seven other myths about some upper-middle class kids who required death which serve as impediments to tentative offering of ecumenism. But wanted to ask CIA recruiters about pur- let's not think of that now. decision-making concerning life sup- suing a career of crime. port systems. In this issue also: the We have to dust off some suitcases If the Reagan years have taught us and look for the exit signs.

Permission Rev. Glenda Hope's reflection, Why fast for Lent — or anytime. anything, it is that none of our free- Judy Holofernes Tulsa, Ok. • AIDS: The plague that lays waste doms are guaranteed, none are secure. DFMS. (THE WITNESS does not usually print / at noon, plus articles on the rights of And if democratic struggle has taught gays and lesbians in church and soci- us anything, it is that our rights are not letters written under an obviously as- ety. Authors include John Fortunate, things which must be "preserved." sumed name without knowing the iden- Church Zal Sherwood, Anne Gilson, Dom Rather, they must be vigorously used tity of the author who has requested Ciannella, Madeline Ligammare. and expanded. As with the physical such. But the points made through the satire above were too tempting to disre- To order, fill in coupon below and body, so with the body politic; our Episcopal gard. - Eds.) mail to THE WITNESS, P.O. Box capacities are more likely to grow if the 359, Ambler PA 19002. properly exercised and developed. Free- of dom of speech needs more militant victories for peace — and against Yes, please send me the back issues I application and less abstract admira- militarism and capital's ability to de-

Archives have checked at $1.50 each. (Pre- tion. Democracy is not a "precious stroy our environment. We must push paid orders only.) fragile gift" handed down to us like for more not-for-profit economic de- 2020. • Central America in Agony some Grecian urn. Rather it is a dy- velopment; more democratic dissidence • 11 Myths about Death namically developing process that in the mainstream media, more and D AIDS, Gay and Lesbian Rights grows out of the struggle between the better application of the Fairness Copyright popular interests of the people and the Doctrine, and more listener-controlled inherently undemocratic nature of capi- access. In every field of endeavor we Name talist politico-economic power. must learn to see the dimensions of a Rather than fear an "excess of dem- struggle that advances the interests of Address ocracy" as do some of our academic the many and opposes the interests of and media pundits, we must struggle the exploitative and outrageously City for more popular power; more victor- privileged few; in other words, a strug- ies for labor, more victories against gle for more democracy and more free- State Zip racism, sexism, and class bigotry; more dom. •

14 THE WITNESS — the struggle ALutaContinua continues by Barbara C. Harris

Anglican alphabet soup thickens

couple of items in a recent issue Anthony Clavier, said: "Everybody is of the Christian Challenge reported a realizing that our divisions have no movement toward unity that could lead theological basis. We can't expect to be to merger or at least a joint venture taken seriously until we take ourselves covers pulled back on the latter. publication. among some of the Anglican rite seriously. If we have a worldwide re- The well-financed, well-oiled ma- and churches that have evolved over the sponsibility, then this must be demon- chinery of traditionalist groups that past 10 years in this country and have strated by our willingness to bury the have, so far, stayed "in the Church" reuse provided a haven for disaffected mistakes of the past and get on with could be enlisted. With a traditionalist for Episcopal clergy and laity. Growing being the Church, (emphasis added) seminary or two in place and scores of out of the 1977 Congress of Concerned Few, if any, of the matters which divide nervous feet waiting for the ultimate Churchmen in St. Louis, the "continu- us are of the essence of the faith." required drum beat — the election and con- ing church" has divided like some ec- These chaps are playing for the long secration of a woman bishop — to clesiastical amoeba into at least six haul — I'll give them that. With an eye march out of Episcopal pews, a co- bodies. toward eventual recognition by the hesive, determined and respectable new Permission The Anglican Catholic Church Anglican Communion, the bodies seem American church might well make (ACC) and the American Episcopal to be abandoning their doctrinal and some impact on conservative Anglican-

DFMS. Church (AEC), "giants" of the break- / procedural version of "button, button, ism outside the U.S. away bodies, have appealed to the who's got the button?" (or in this case, Playing out the scenario of world- Bishop ofChichester (England) for his the traditional faith) and are getting a wide responsibility, its missionary zeal Church help in uniting their two jurisdictions. bit more chummy. This takes on an could translate into much-needed dol- It is hoped that the Diocese of Christ interesting twist as emerging issues in lars for the exponentially growing the King (DCK), the other major break- the Episcopal Church give them a new

Episcopal Church in Africa, most of which does away group, will participate in the rallying point and a fresh focus for not count such issues as women's or- the of effort toward unity. attracting members to their ranks. dination a priority. Its leadership, Meanwhile, the Anglican Rite Juris- Having individually worked at flog- understandably, is wrestling with such diction of the Americas (ARJA) and ging dead horses for so long — Prayer problems as clergy development, poly- Archives the Anglican Episcopal Church in Book revision, ordination of women gamy and the instability of government. North America (AECNA), which re- and other so-called diminutions of the Here at home, the traditionalists 2020. cently held overlapping synods, simi- traditional faith — the breakaway boys would no longer have to be embar- larly are entertaining a proposal that now have a chance to build some rassed by their denomination's parti- might lead to unification of their juris- strength through unity around the cur- cipation in such "politicized" bodies Copyright dictions, along with the United Epis- rent scare issues of women in the epis- as the National and World Council of copal Church of North America copate and sexual morality (the latter Churches, nor would they have to put (UECNA). The Anglican Episcopal translated "homosexuality.") They up with bishops who have the audacity Church in North America has been could provide an eventual home for to openly suggest the study of changing suggested as the name for the united those in the Dallas-Fort Worth axis patterns of sexuality and family life. body which could emerge in about two and the biretta belt brigade who can Moreover, they could public opinion- years. find no grounds for accommodation poll themselves into Nirvana, that bliss- In commenting on the ACC/AEC on the former issue and are probably ful state of oblivion to care, pain or move, the latter's Primus, Bishop scared out of their wits at having the external reality. •

September 1987 15 The twilight of patriotism by John S. Spong publication. and hroughout the summer of 1987 we destined to die. As the patterns of society became reuse have seen a version of "patriotism" In the early days of civilization, the more and more intricate and compli- for extolled by a series of witnesses in the human family lived in small nomadic cated, tribal units came together to Iran-Contra hearings. The star "patriot" tribal units where the struggle for sur- form larger entities, first organized as

required was surely the beribboned Marine, Lt. vival demanded a division of labor cities and later as nations. But the Col. Oliver North. His words had an among the tribal members. Life was emotions originally attached to the old-fashioned ring and the patriotism hard and insecure. Food could not be tribe were always transferred to the he espoused sounded like something preserved so it had to be found daily to larger unit for there identity and se- Permission out of the 19th century, when national feed hungry mouths. Enemies, both curity could be found. To the nation self-interest was almost always identi- human and subhuman, had to be fell the traditional tribal responsibili-

DFMS. fied with divine providence or mani- fought off on a regular basis. Death / ties. Survival was the first task, and the fest destiny. was ever present. Preserving and de- need to defend itself against all exter- But this is the 20th century and fending the corporate life was a tribal nal threats still lies behind every Church patriotism, despite the Norths and the responsibility. nation's armed forces and arsenals. Poindexters, is no longer a virtue; in- In that era no sense of individualism The second task was to insure the well- deed, patriotism has become a destruc- could be encouraged or sustained. The being of the tribe's internal life. Today's Episcopal tive force that cannot be allowed to individual was too fragile, too suscep- various national social welfare pro- the

of survive. These are startling words that tible to disease, infection, accident, or grams are the modern versions of this just a generation ago would have sure- to an overtly hostile act to be the im- ancient tribal duty. ly brought a sharp and hostile response. portant unit of life. Value could not be In the sweep of human history, the

Archives Indeed they still will from those whose placed on the individual. Rather, it had emergence of trans-tribal nations is a consciousnesses have not been raised to be vested in the tribe whose cor- relatively new experience, starting no 2020. by the necessities of the human strug- porate preservation was the overriding earlier than 1000 years ago, and con- gle for survival — those who still divide human concern. The tribe alone pro- tinuing even today. The United States the world into "us" and "them." For vided its members with identity, worth was born near the end of the 18th Copyright this same patriotism that once served and the ability to cope in a dangerous century. Italy and Germany did not as the means for romanticizing the life environment. Loyalty to the tribe was become nation states until well into the and values which bind a people to- thus the essential key to survival, so 19th century. India and Pakistan were gether must now increasingly be seen this value was placed at the very heart born after World War II. As the era of as undergirding a view of reality that is of the human emotions. That was the western colonialism died, new nations origin of what we now call patriotism, roughly determined by ancient tribal and it accounts for the continuing boundaries were born in Africa and The Rt. Rev. John S. Spong is Bishop of the power and emotional hold of patriot- other heretofore underdeveloped re- Episcopal Diocese of Newark. ism on life. gions of the world.

16 THE WITNESS Most people cannot imagine a world ity of the sea to feed the world's popu- around the world. My destiny is human without nations. We are unable to de- lation either directly or indirectly is destiny; it is no longer an American fine identity apart from the ingrained called into question. Suddenly, we destiny. feeling of the tribe. Our citizenship begin to be aware that nation states Patriotism, that emotion that feeds tells us who we are, determines in large cannot fulfill their purposes. They can our tribal thinking, must die if the measure our values, sets our limits and no longer do the things they were human enterprise is to survive. What shapes our world view. created to do. we need is a world consciousness, a However, slowly but surely, the When any institution loses its pur- world agreement, a worldwide security necessity that created tribes and na- pose it is doomed to death. The death system, a sense of human interdepend- tions in the first place is fading. of nation states will not be instantaneous ence that transcends nation, race, ethnic Modern technology has linked the because deeply ingrained cultural needs origin, religion and every other defin- world more deeply than our grand- attached to that institution will continue ing human barrier by which we have in parents could ever have imagined. to carry the concept for some long time, the past determined who we are. To Television has brought such things as but death is nonetheless inevitable. achieve that requires an enormous leap publication. the tragedies of Vietnam, African star- of consciousness that will ultimately and vation, and the international scope of be required of all of us. The ability on the part of all the people of the world to our covert operations into our living "No nation today can guar- reuse rooms daily. We have been made to make such a leap is the prerequisite to for antee its people protection against survival of the human enterprise. understand our human interdepend- the threat of an enemy. My life ence in the oil crisis of the 70s and the Throughout history it has often been a and survival are now radically required terrorist activities of the '80s. disaster that has caused the develop- dependent on someone else in a ment of such new consciousness and Organizations have been established, nation halfway around the such as the European Common Market, created the context in which new values world." can arise. We have now had Three Mile

Permission in which smaller nations have allowed their economies to become so inter- Island and Chernobyl to jolt our sec- dependent that regional thinking has urity. The AIDS epidemic shows a

DFMS. capacity to leap every barrier that we / begun to replace national thinking in those areas. Businesses the world over Nation states will quickly become an hoped would enclose it. Scientists warn have become multinational. Jet travel anachronism and will not survive in a us that the earth's atmosphere is heat- Church has brought the diverse continents of radically interdependent world. As ing up at an alarming rate due to the the world together in a way that even states' rights gave way in this country to burning of fossil fuels and the release neighboring kindred tribes were not national needs, so national sovereignty of chlorofluorocarbons into the ozone. Episcopal linked in the past. will finally give way to international Inevitably, another devastating eco- the needs. logical disaster will afflict the earth; a of The final human bonding experience that will apply the coup de grace to All wars of the past have been fought disaster severe enough to create a world- nation states will be an awareness of to insure the vested interests of the tribe wide willingness to lay aside the bar- Archives the threat to the environment that will or the nation states. Today, however, riers of the past and to seek a new dawn as we recognize that all human no nation's vested interests can be understanding of our common destiny. 2020. beings share a common destiny in the served by a war. No nation today can The victims of that disaster may not be air we breathe, the water we drink, and guarantee its people protection against able to rejoice in this benefit but per- the oceans chat feed us, and that no the threat of an enemy. There is no one haps in time those who survive will Copyright nation state is capable of addressing villain we can oppose when destruc- begin to realize that this is one world, these concerns alone. When the world's tion comes to our environment, our with one human family, in which all ozone layer is damaged by the chemical atmosphere, our food supply and even nationalism is simply inappropriate. It gases from the industries of any nation, to the safety of a nursing mother's milk. is strange to imagine that only an eco- all life is at risk. When a nuclear acci- A nuclear accident pours radioactivity logical calamity might save a portion dent occurs in Pennsylvania or in the into the common atmosphere. of humanity. It is also a depressing Ukraine, all the people of the world are This means that my life and my prospect. I wish I thought my govern- endangered. When polluted rivers empty survival are now radically dependent ment in Washington had even the their poisons into the oceans, the abil- on someone else in a nation halfway slightest inkling of this reality. •

17 September 1987 An Irish sickness

by Michael Hamilton

ivery now and then a person arises who speaks for his Ireland; not all of them do now because their welfare has or her nation, the words discerning the nature of its culture, vastly improved. But if they do not want to be part of a its sickness and health, and those guiding forces which united Ireland, they do want a full implementation of their underlie the contradiction of its daily events. Such a one cultural and civil rights in Northern Ireland. In the last 50 was an anonymous, seventh century Irish bard who in- years of Protestant majority rule, instead of being terpreted his times and people through the figure of mad compassionate and fair to the Catholic minority, the publication. King Sweeney. Sweeney had sinned, he had struck a holy Protestants harassed them and discriminated against them and man who then cursed him: "May the mad spasms strike in housing, employment and access to the government. you until time dies away." Ironically it has been the former colonial British who, reuse since taking over direct rule of Northern Ireland in 1972,

for Listen to Sweeney's plight, as translated by the con- temporary poet, Seamus Heaney: have introduced and are enforcing laws providing equal opportunity for all. It is also the presence of the British His brain convulsed, required army that prevents the paramilitaries on both sides from his mind split open ... inciting a civil war. he staggered and flapped desperately, But while the laws have changed, the enmity and he was revolted by the thought of known places

Permission spiritual problems remain. The fanatical Catholic Irish and dreamed of strange migrations... Republican Army and the Protestant paramilitaries con- God has exiled me from myself, tinue trying to achieve their contradictory goals by ter- DFMS. / I have lived among the trees, rorism and intimidation. In a small country of only IV2 between flood and ebb tide, million people, in the last 17 years over 2,500 men, women

Church growing cold and naked, and children have been killed. Many more thousands with no pillow for my head, have been injured, kneecapped, or forced to flee their no human company. homes. Political moderates are threatened and isolated

Episcopal — From Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney and, despite many courageous and gifted individuals,

the despite excellent reconciliation centers like Corrymeela, I have just returned from living and working in Belfast, a of despite the united voices of the Catholic and Protestant community also in the grip of madness. I happened to leaders of the major denominations, the hate and violence have been born and raised there; I know those people and I goes on. While both sides have suffered legitimate griev- Archives love them. I love their individual kindness, their refreshing ances and injustices, they scapegoat the other instead of wit and laughter; but they are lost in a strange migration being honest with themselves. 2020. from reality, they are exiled from godliness and from their true selves. They stagger and flap seeking, yet rejecting, Protestant intransigence and conservatism are, in my solutions to their political and religious divisions. judgement, to blame for the present political stalemate.

Copyright Believe it or not, they prefer economic ruin to social I criticize primarily my own tribe, the Protestants. The reform. They say they want peace, but they will not make key to understanding them is that they are fearful of losing the sacrifices for reconciliation. They are willing to endure their place in the United Kingdom and being absorbed violence rather than change their hopes. As one of their into what they believe is a hostile, Catholic Ireland. political leaders said: "We will eat grass before we accept Catholics in Northern Ireland used to want a united the Anglo-Irish agreement." All of these incidents indicate a deeper sickness, a The Rev. Michael Hamilton, a canon at Washington Cathedral, sickness of the soul which has infected both Catholics and was born in Ireland and recently spent a year working with church and Protestants, Unionists and Nationalists. The sickness is reconciliation organizations in Belfast. not wishing to hear anything good about their adversaries.

18 THE WITNESS The sickness is not wishing to love their neighbors or be righteousness? This disease is pervasive — mad Sweeney is concerned for their welfare. The sickness is not being able a universal king. to recognize the wounds of others because of their own suf- I learned three important things from living in Ireland. fering. The sickness is the meanness of spirit preferring to First, terrorism poisons the atmosphere for political rec- hate rather than understand. And the sickness is self- onciliation. Civil wars to overthrow a tyrant which have a righteousness, not realizing that they and all people, all realistic hope of success may be morally justified; but nations, all human institutions, both secular and religious, bombs and assassinations stem from weakness and result participate in human sin. in greater intransigence, less likelihood of the victims' The former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church was negotiating for peace. willing to sit down and have tea and biscuits with a Roman Second, I discovered the value of church infrastructure. Catholic bishop. At the end of the meeting, however, he All the institutions for reconciliation, peace, spiritual refused to pray with the bishop lest that be seen as his growth, parish organization, adult education programs approval of the Catholic religion. emanating from national and diocesan offices which we in There was a friendly old Methodist minister's widow the United States take for granted, were in very short publication. who lived opposite us on our street. One morning after a supply in Ireland. There was simply no tradition of con- and particular nasty Irish Republican Army bombing which gregations exploring the moral dimensions of political killed some Protestants, she said, "I wish all the Catholics and social issues, and there was no local follow-up to reuse were dead." church leaders' pronouncements condemning violence for The Rev. Ian Paisley, political leader and Protestant and calling for compromise. I learned that worship is no church leader, stormed St. Anne's Church of Ireland substitute for education; both are needed for a healthy required (Episcopal) Cathedral in Belfast with 200 of his demon- church. strators to disrupt an ecumenical service because a Roman Finally, I discovered afresh the profundity of Christ's Catholic cardinal was preaching. teaching that worship of God and loving one's neighbor

Permission At a Church of Ireland diocesan convention discussing are integrally connected. Northern Ireland Protestants community relations, an older delegate stood up and said, study the Bible, pray and go to church twice on Sundays, "We all want peace and justice, but not at any price." One but they do not recognize their obligation to work for DFMS. / wonders what price he was selling God's justice for that social justice. So if any Christian anywhere wants to take afternoon! the temperature of his or her spiritual health, let them

Church Some symptoms of the Catholic sickness: An Irish reflect on how they treat their adversaries and the poor Republican Army Catholic supporter speaking about around them. • government and police in Northern Ireland, said to me, "I

Episcopal am against all political parties, and when anyone puts on a

the uniform, that's a declaration of war to me." of A divorced Roman Catholic is forbidden to receive the sacraments, but gunmen and known leaders of the IRA participate openly in the mass. Archives The police stopped a recent rock throwing in a Belfast

2020. street between Catholics and Protestants; the oldest person involved was ten and the youngest was four. It is too easy to believe that these spiritual ills are to be

Copyright found chiefly in Ireland. However, they are all too com- mon in the conflicts in the Middle East, South Africa and — let me suggest — here in the United States. For instance, reflect on our attitudes to the Soviet Union. Are we glad to hear of their stumbling reforms under Gorbachev? Do we not often scapegoat the Russians as if they were the cause of most international problems? Do we understand Soviet privations, their fears born of having been invaded from the West so many times in their history? And is there wisdom to be found in our policies of national self-

September 1987 19 THE WITNESS CELEBRATES Remembering

YEARS A am not sure that a son is the best ecutive secretary of the Church League historian of a person, since memories for Industrial Democracy. He under- are always involved in the intimate stood that prophets live, move and have plus-and-minus vagaries of the Oedipus their being on the edges of institutions complex. But, to his son and others, and, we presume like most prophets, he Bill Spofford's letters always concluded lived uncomfortably with the title! publication. with "Cheerio" and were signed, The Yet, when he had the chance to func-

and Old Man; and invariably added was a tion as a priest and a pastor, he did it smiling face, long before that symbol uncommonly well. His sermons from reuse became a bumper sticker on auto- Christ Church, Middletown, where he for mobiles. was basically non-stipendiary rector The Pauline "Old Man" indicated from 1936-1948, indicate that he under- that he knew that the world, including stood the pressures and needs of the required himself, was awry and fallen. And he parishioners of this old Queen Ann had a deep conviction that each in- church in what was then rural New dividual, working through relationships, Jersey. It was a congregation, for the Permission could do something about that. He was, most part, of wealthy commuters to if anything, an Anglican Pelagian. For New York City, with offices on Wall

DFMS. himself, relationships, rather than in- Street and Madison Avenue. Then, he / daily commuted to his dingy and William B. Spofford, Sr. stitutions, were the essence. His beliefs by artist Sy Wallack and experiences indicated that all in- crowded WITNESS office on Liberty Church stitutions, whether of the state or busi- Street, and he did much of his pastoral gregation found themselves working ness or church, dealt with power that work on the New Jersey Central, going in movies, television and other dra- corrupts. and coming, and sharing coffee on the matic enterprises. Episcopal His ministry, from 1914, when he ferry boat from Hoboken to Manhattan. (The late Dean Paul Roberts, whose the went to Berkeley Seminary following Since Middletown, at that time, was glory days were at St. John's Cathedral of Trinity College, through 1972, when he a community of but 500 persons, it didn't in Denver, validated the story of going died, was dedicated to persons, indi- have much going for it in the way of on the trolley to a Wesleyan-Trinity

Archives vidually and collectively. Graced by a excitement for youth. So he had the baseball game in 1914 with Dad. In his sense of humor and a decidedly open vestry purchase a Church House where pocket, apparently, Bill had a potential

2020. personality, The Old Man is generally the young people of the village could contract as a singer and actor with Billy thought of as a prophetic figure. We are meet and recreate. He organized ball- Minsky, the burlesque impresario. At sure that he understood faith more in games and tennis tournaments on a the same time, he was wrestling with a Copyright terms of Amos and Hosea than in light regular basis, and periodically took vocational call to priesthood. Said of personal piety or institutional form. groups, along with mother, Dot, to Dean Roberts, they bet on the game: If Thus, it is undoubtedly a good thing Asbury Park or Palisades Park on the Wesleyan won, Dad would enter that most of his ordained ministry was Jersey Heights. So, too, (meeting his Berkeley; if Trinity won, it would be on the edges of the institutional estab- own needs as a devout Yankee fan), Minsky's. Wesleyan won — I think he lishment, as editor of THE WITNESS many jaunts to the Stadium were said 7 to 3 — but at the age of 92, Paul and, for most of that time, also as ex- carried through. Also, he encouraged Roberts apologized for not remember- liturgical and other drama in the church ing who the pitchers were. As the Bible The Rt. Rev. William B. Spofford, Jr. is retired Bishop of Eastern Oregon and retired Assistant and community and, in years since, says, there were giants in those Bishop of Washington. many of the youngsters in that con- days ... and perhaps the incident proves

THE WITNESS 20 'The Old Man' by William B. Spofford

that God has both a sense of humor Ladd suggested that instead, he com- Virginia University Medical College in and works in very mysterious ways.) mute a day a week to the New School Charlottesville, Va. In the early 1930s, Liturgically,The Old Man was evan- for Social Research in New York City Joe was studying in England and gelical and low-key. His friends in the and study with another young activist became acquainted with the then Arch- church, and on THE WITNESS board teaching there by the name of Scott bishop of York, William Temple. Joe of editors, were invariably of that per- Nearing. (Dr. Nearing became a sort of believed that this prelate was setting suasion — folk like Arthur Lichten- cult-figure by living off-the-land in forth significant insights as to the role publication. berger, later Presiding Bishop; Lane rural New England and acting as a of the Christian Church, in England and Barton, third bishop of Eastern Oregon; guru for many environmentalists.) and the world. (Temple of course served Joe Titus, rector of Grace Church, And, then, each week Ladd and The as Archbishop of Canterbury during reuse Jamaica, L.I.; Roscoe Faust, Louis Pitt, Old Man would discuss and share World War II; was chair of the Malvern for Sr., and Hugh McCandless, rectors in what was being learned. Conference of 1940 during which the New York City; and Ted Ludlow, At any rate, from these three persons, assembled Christians sought to devel- required Charles Street, and Charles Gilbert, significantly, Bill understood the living op plans for the post-war world, and, bishops in Newark, Chicago and New liturgy, and that the Prayer Book had unfortunately, died before his ideas York. many inter-leaves and the sacraments could be nurtured or emplaced. His classic lectures, "Nature, Man and God,"

Permission Yet, at the same time, he was a friend, were to be celebrated and used as a and in some sense editor, for three of community, as well as for individual, are still considered important theolog- the outstanding liturgical scholars of enrichment. ical contributions and his meditations DFMS. / the Episcopal Church. The first, and Copes and mitres were not Bill's on the Gospel of St. John are used long-time friend and co-social activist, things, but the living quality of the widely.)

Church was Bishop Edward L. Parsons, of spoken and written Word and the At any rate, Joe Fletcher, who was California, who for years was presi- drama of the worship acts were im- the first director of the Graduate School dent of the C.L.I.D. The second Was Dr. portant to the community of God, as of Applied Religion in Cincinnati

Episcopal Massey Shepherd, who wrote regularly well as for individual development (meeting in the home of William Keller, for THE WITNESS as professor at both the process. (Parenthetically, when I was M.D. in its early years) was an im- of the Episcopal Theological School in ordained as Bishop of Eastern Oregon, portant institution in relating ministry, Cambridge and at the Church Divinity Dad refused to come to the service in the church and social justice and com- School of the Pacific in Berkeley. The the Ontario, Ore., high school gym- munity issues, along with helping to Archives third, and perhaps most seminal, was nasium, not because of the setting, but develop the Clinical Pastoral Educa- William Palmer Ladd, sometime dean because he felt that perhaps this was tion movement in theological training. 2020. of Berkeley Divinity School in Middle- not a step into a stronger ministry. He Among its graduates were John E. town, Conn, which in the mid-1930's was taking a cue from Dean Paul Hines, later Presiding Bishop; Brooke moved into affiliation with Yale Di- Roberts who, when I asked him what a Copyright Mosely, sometime Bishop of Delaware vinity School in New Haven. Cathedral dean was replied: "A dean is and dean of Union Seminary in New When Bill went to Berkeley in 1914, someone who is too dumb to be a rector York City; and many others who un- Ladd was a young tutor and deeply and too smart to be a bishop!") derstood the Christian gospel as re- involved in issues of war and peace, Among ordained clergy, perhaps the lating the individual and society in a and social justice. Bill, Sr., drew him as closest of Dad's friends, for most of his vital manner. a mentor and, when Dad refused to life, was Joseph F. Fletcher, who de- In some senses, my father was a take Hebrew classes because he couldn't veloped as an important ethicist, sem- mentor to Joe Fletcher, by helping find understand what this would add to his inary professor and, currently, serves him a position early in his ministry ability to minister, they made a deal. as honored professor-emeritus of the and, then, by giving him an outlet in

September 1987 21 THE WITNESS. In many letters and Continued from page 9 looking during the Vietnam War. Al- late-night conversations, we know that said, "They have been 'official' for part though the major journalists knew about they shared insights into the nature of of their lives and conducted both it, there were no major lawsuits, no history, economic structures, theolog- 'official' and 'non-official' operations. committees investigating it, and the rise ical understandings and issues of jus- We are trying to unpack what was offi- in the consciousness of the U.S. public tice and truth. cially sanctioned and what was not." had not yet occurred. When Billy Ladd, as Dad always That hazy distinction may explain much "But now stories are gradually being referred to him, was tutoring at Berkeley, of the appalling memory loss suffered released by the media. The TV show two other seminarians, Charles Collett by many of those testifying at the West 57th Street has done two segments and Horace Fort, on occasion would Iran/Contra hearings as investigators try about dope running, and The Nation and meet with Dr. Ladd and my father. to make connections between, or sepa- Mother Jones have reported on it, Evaluating their faith and the world, rate, U.S. funding and private fortunes. among others. Other investigations are they came to the conclusion that, with By delving into the activities of the underway, in many instances verifying the developing urban-industrial culture, Secret Team, the Institute may have our findings. I testified behind closed publication. and the crises that it would develop come across evidence that explains why, doors recently before the House Select and world-wide (all of them saw the first after a period of seeming indifference, Committee and for the Foreign Rela- World War as a historic disaster), the the Reagan Administration was so eager tions Committee. We have also had reuse ministry in the church would, perhaps, to trade arms to free the hostages in Iran. testimony during recent Congressional for best be done in a semi-monastic and "When James Buckley was taken hearings from George Morales, a major collegial manner, with some ordained hostage, there was more hoopla in the drug runner for the Contras. who was interviewed on West 57th Street as well. required persons working in the secular world government about him than any other," and supporting the broader commun- said Nelson. All this has raised the consciousness of ity with their income. In their senior "First they said he was a businessman, the American people." year (1917), they wrote many bishops then admitted he was a CIA agent. Nelson urged all concerned people to Permission of their plans and insights. What they didn't say is that Buckley was take action against the covert warriors Bishop Randall of Chicago, a close head of the world-wide anti-terrorism and the shadow government:

DFMS. "Collectively as a people we have to / friend of Bishop Irving P. Johnson, program, which is an assassination pro- who had already started THE WIT- gram. When they got Buckley, they got shine a big light on them and they'll NESS was the only one to reply. He a lot." scatter as they always do." Church wrote that he had small St. George's Buckley died while in Iranian cus- When asked about the sudden Church in south Chicago, that wasn't tody, but the Iranians allegedly obtained celebrity of Oliver North and an increase doing too well, and if they wanted to try a 400-page confession from him. in pro-Contra support, she said, "We've Episcopal a corporate and non-stipendiary minis- "How much does that have to do with got to start bringing out the fact that the the junkies on the street, or even your kids, of try there, it would be all right with him. tractor trailer loads of TOW missiles to So, The Old Man, in 1921, (following keep the Iranians quiet? They may have your family members are hooked be- some teaching at St. Paul's School in information that if released could be cause North, Secord and others are re- Archives Concord, N.H., in his home diocese) very disturbing to the American people," sponsible for bringing in drugs." went to the "Second City" as pastor, as Nelson observed. According to Nelson, even Reagan is 2020. a job-seeker and as a point-man for a The Iran/Contra hearings have ig- not invulnerable: "There is enough new style of ministry. Perhaps, since nored much of the information uncov- circumstantial evidence now to impeach, many of the ideas in back of that ered by the Institute. That is why Nel- but some formidable constituency has to Copyright ministry are now reasonably standard son and Sheehan have been stumping step out and and bite the bullet and say, in both urban and town-and-country across the country getting the facts out 'The emperor has no clothes.'" dioceses, it triangulates The Old Man's to the people. Noting that Americans were cele- prophetic insights with his priestly and Asked why he thought the drug con- brating the bicentennial of the Constitu- pastoral vocations. nection to the Iran/Contra affair could be tion, she said, "our Constitution is seri- It was from such a position that he exposed now, when evidence of drug ously eroded. This is not some cancer was called into his central vocation, as dealing was so successfully suppressed on the president's nose, this is a cancer an editor and a writer. But, that is during and after the Vietnam War, Shee- on the body politic. We have to do the another story for another time. • han told THE WITNESS, "No one was surgery that needs to be done." •

22 THE WITNESS Short Takes

Trust shattered The Contra drug connection Two hundred years ago, the framers of our Since 1985, reports linking Contra arms Constitution provided for a more perfect suppliers to cocaine smuggling have run in union by establishing a strong national gov- progressive publications and a few main- ernment built on a system of checks and stream outlets. But CBS West 57th's well- balances. The unique genius of the Amer- documented segment on the CIA-Contra ican system was that by dividing power it drug connection April 6 was the first serious promoted sound policy based on reasoned network probe. and open discourse, and mutual trust be- The segment featured interviews with CIA tween the branches. The formulation of contract employes who flew weapons ship- American foreign policy has always been a ments to the Contras in Honduras and back- publication. matter of discourse between the President loaded cocaine and marijuana Mike Tolliver,

and and Congress... It is truly sad that such convicted drug smuggler and part-time CIA inter-branch cooperation and trust could pilot, told of flying 25,000 pounds of pot to not have been the rule today.

reuse Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye Extra (Newsletter of Fairness for Quoted in The Churchman "Of course, money can't buy hap- and Accuracy in Reporting) June 1987 June-July 1987 piness. So Sheila and I have had to settle for smug." Quote of note required Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as The shortage will be divided among the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a the peasants. Anon. Cracking down on Coke headless hen. There are some clear — and humorous — Ambrose Bierce Permission dangers of high technology, according to a Alaska SDI shield? recent book, The High Costs of High Tech: Gloria Brown to CHN post The nuclear invasion of Alaska is underway. the Dark Side of the Chip, by Lenny Siegel Gloria H. Brown of Los Angeles, a member DFMS. / A month ago it was Dr. Edward Teller, one of and John Markoff (Harper & Row). Recently, of the Board of Directors of the Episcopal the developers of the atom bomb. Some they report, city officials in Fayetteville, N.C., Church Publishing Company, has been who accompanied him to Prudhoe Bay were were alerted by their electronic switchboard named new staff officer for the Coalition for Church struck by his penetrating questions. Not the records that hundreds of calls were being Human Needs by Presiding Bishop Edmond usual scientist's professional interest. There made every night from two extensions in a L Browning. appeared to be special agenda That agenda city building. When police investigated, in- CHN is an umbrella organization through surfaced at the Commonwealth North forum, Episcopal stead of burglars or disgruntled city em- which the radical, ethnic and social issues where he said, "Alaska is ideal for SDI-Star ployees they found the culprits to be two

the ministries of the Episcopal Church's National Wars protective shield over the United of computerized Coke machines. The machines Mission unit identify issues of social and States." As an admitted adviser to President were programmed automatically to phone economic justice affecting their constitu- Reagan, he left no doubt that he would be their daily sales totals to the computer at the encies. CHN is also key in helping to de- making that recommendation to the President. bottling company offices. Because of a flaw velop ministries and provide funding for Archives Then Premier Nakasone of Japan called in the programming, the machines were these ministries. for missiles in Alaska to counter the Russian calling continuously instead of once a night The new appointee brings a solid and 2020. missiles in Siberia, to protect Japan, of course. as they were supposed to. varied background in human services and And now, the Trident nuclear submarine Dollars and Sense community involvement to the post. She USS Alaska has nosed into Resurrection Jan./Feb. 1987 developed and administered the Good Bay. Isn't that ironic. A sub possessing Copyright Shepherd Center for Independent Living in weapons of devastating destruction plying Los Angeles, a congregation-based center the waters of a bay named in honor of the Welcome humanity's toil which specializes in rehabilitative services Resurrection of Christ. Look at the immense crowds of those who for the aged and disabled in the inner-city. All this maneuvering only begs the more build and those who love. Over the world An at-large member of the CHN Commis- fundamental question: How long will the they toil — in laboratories, in studios, in fac- sion from 1980 to 1982, she was a member nuclear escalation be pushed on the people tories — in the vast social crucible. Open of the planning committee for the National of this country? your arms and your hearts, like Christ, and Conference on Racism which the Coalition Bishop Francis Hurley welcome the flood and the sweat of human- sponsored during her tenure. She has also Catholic Commentary ity. Accept it all, be part of it all. served on several diocesan and national Anchorage Times 6/26/87 Teilhard de Chardin church committees and task forces.

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