News Scrapbook 1985

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Daily Transcript (Cir. D. 7,415)

Son Diego, CA (Son Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,-454) FEB 2

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y Bishops' letter on economy t~!f l:N~i~~~~' of economics at the University of San Diego, will give the first of lour lec- tures on the U.S. Catholic bishops' first draft of a proposed pastoral let- ter on the U.S. economy at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Manchester Execu- tive Conference Center at USD. The second will be given at 8 p.m. Feb. 26 in Camino Theater at USD by Michael Novak of the American En- terprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C. Novak and William E. Simon, for- mer treasury secretary, were princi- pal authors of "Towards the Future," a Catholic laymen's response to the draft, issued in November, 1984. Joseph Colombo, assistant profes- sor of theology, will respond to the Novak-Simon book at 7:30 p.m. March 4 at the Manchester Execu- tive Conference Center..

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's 12th serie~ of Business l)'Jraani Serninars7®:-b(' pres• ented by the u~~faculty during February, March and April. Sponsored by the continuing education department, the b:eakfast seminars are designed to give local business persons a chance to meet with faculty and their peers and learn about recent developments in the changing bus- iness environment. The seminars will be held Friday mornings beginning this week. Cost for the 10 seminars is $135. Friday's topic is "Making Japanese Management Theory Work for You," presented by Ellen Cook Ph.D. Other topics include· "Managing for Innovation and Creativity, Mergers in the Public Accounting Profession, Beyond the Current Reagan Ex- pansion," and "No Shows - Wasted Time, Wasted Money." ,,,,..- * . * /.: --

T ue world ecumenical movement e.'$.1f~e~lg.:.,~~~!~~f~~~?m~!iSC0VefS embracing all religions and breaking down walls Schneider says Ch~isttans ar~ ~ealiz;ngd~tey of misunderstanding between them, says the can't understand their own rebg1ous ra_ 1.ion R v. Dr. Delwin B Schneider, professor of the comp~etely until they understand other religious history of religions at th University of San trad1t10~. , . . . ,, . be- D , "Exciting poss1b1lities are opemng up iego. is a movement that embraces the whole cause of the new inter_change between adherents family of God comprising the whole inhabited of the great world rebg1ons, he says. . world including the Jew , Muslim and Schneider _compa~es t~e ecumenical en- adh rents of Asian and African religions," terprise to a Journey m which a .travetr :nt~rs Schneider says in a paper prepared for the annu- an unknown land and returns enriched . Y av!"g • 1 National Prayer for Christian Unity Week learned what adheren~ of othe~ ~el!gions _t~mk b and understanding their own religious trad1t1ons o crvance. Schneider will preach on "A Chnstian Mis- better. . . ionar Look at Other Religions'' at the 10 a.m. "The holy ma~ or woman_of our yme is _ the ervi/e tomorrow at University Christian one "';ho is n:iak~ng such_a Journer, Schnb~de~ Church 9595 La Jolla Shores Drive. say _ 'The samt is that figure .who 1s capa . o chn~ider says Christians In particular ~re passing over by sym~a.thetic understa~~mg bedding their fear and sus cion of other rebg- from his or her own r~lig1o_n to other trad1l1ons ion and reahzmg they are he "spiritual heirs" and coming back agam with new understand- to other world religions. IJlg." . . ·11 f 1 "The faithful in both Catholic and Protestant Schneider aid some Christians st1 . . ee churches are coming to understand these faith threatened by the exposure to other r~hgions, traditions to be complementary and not contra- but that in the long run they stand to gam from dictory to the Christian way," says Schneider, a such exposure.

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FEB 7 1 85 - Peace topic of lecture S . D!,E~O - "Peace - A Past Promise,. is the topic of a talk b Rev , Daniel Berrigan, S.J. at 8 P m Y fhurs~ay, F~b. 7, at the UJili:ersity ~i H anf! D 0 iesgo, in the Solomon Lecture a , e ales Hall. Rev, Berrigan, a Jesuit priest is wrrently professor of theology, at Y oodk stock Jesuit Community in New or . thThe free lecture is sponsored by S e k USD Associated Students pea crs Bureau, / Jl. lltt1'• P. C, B I H, 1888

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T~ Aifh Ro~a o rntel Berrigan, the anti-war priest, will speak at 8 p.m. Thursday in Salomon Hall at the Ugj.~Qf_£an Diego. His announced topic is "Peace _ A Past Promise." _-. . .

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~\!oliC church called best hope against·N-war ft~ eroh "The only mitigating factor seems to be the of its moral ambiguity m seeming to justify the church and decent people who decide they're not U.S. policy of nuclear deterrence that is the gomg t? die that way,"_ he ~dded. . . stockpiling of nuclear weapons to ~ake ·n hopes . Berrigan, who_now lives m_ a Jesmt community of making a potential aggressor think twice about m New York. said the U.S. bIShops' 1983 pastoral launching a nuclear attack. letter on .nuclear weapons conferred a certain The pastoral is "still quite distant from the respectab~lity on the peace movement. spirit of the gospel" becaus the deterrence poli- People m the peace movement who for years cy is inherently immoral, Berrigan said. were_largely ignored "are now getting a hearing," "I just can't find it verified that we can terror- he said. . . . ize one another and call ourselves Christians," he But he said the letter 1s m danger of becoming said. an academic exercise because the followup has . , . . been spotty or inadequatP.. The bishops pastoral says the stockp1lmg ~f "The Jetter needs to be accompanied by some nuclear weapo?s 1s morally_ac~ptable tempora1- kind of example or it just gets buried among a lot ly as long as disarmament IS vigorously pursued. of other _letters,''. Berrigan said. Berrigan said the recent bishops' draft of a He ~1d that m New York, the archdiocese of proposed pastoral letter on the economy shows ~rchbishop f.ohn J. O'Connor, the pastoral is a the bishops take such matters as poverty and d~~d letter. . ~nemployment seriously, but that its credibility . Ive been m panshes where the letter was is weakened by the Catholic community's relative bemg hotly debated and, of course, that's healthy, affluence. ·

:eary Unlike the bishops of Brazil or El Salvador, for example, the U.S. bish- ops speak from a position of relative . wealth, Berrigan said. " 'm always uneasy that we're speaking from such personal afflu- ence and om such enormous prop- erty about the plight of the poor," he said. "It's that old Gandhian idea that your workand your example belong together, I guess, or maybe it's an idea of Jesus'. I think it is." Berrigan said he works with the aged, dying cancer patients, at a Manhattan hospice and with death row prisoners. He said he also writes and lectures "to keep mv head above water."

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Berrigan and his brother achieved notoriety in 1968 when, a.long with seven other persons, they broke into a Selective Service office in Catons- ville, Md., and poured blood on draft records. They became known as the "Catonsville Nine." Twelve years and one excommuni- catio~ later, the pair became part of the "Plowshares Eight," which broke into a General Electric Co. plant in King of Prussia, Pa., and, in Old Tes- tament fashion, tried to beat the nose cones of two Mark 12-A missiles into plowshares. They also splashed blood over tools and documents. Their conviction was overturned in 1984 by a Pennsylvania Superior Court, however.

but then there are parishes where they look at you as if you came down from Mars if you want to talk about it," Berrigan said. Berrigan sald the pastoral is not, as s6tne have charged, a pacifist document, primarily because

"We're a long way from being a church that can speak clearly about being on the side of the P. r be ause we aren't,"13errigan said. Please see BERRIGAN.j8·B

REV. DANIEL BE;RRIGAN Controversi~l Jes~