News Scrapbook 1986-1988

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Sa n Diego Business Journal (Cir. W. 7,500) JUN 2 9 1981.

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 123,092)

S n Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,089) (Cir. S. 341 ,840)

/~ ~~elieve Rome will eventutJY come out wi th a d I document that will definitelJ place the ~\ universities in some manne under th e jurisdiction of the local bis/OP- Without th at, th ey cannot be Catholic.'

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's P. c. e SRX Vatican seeks ~a tighter grip ~on its schools Academicians hostile to outside influence on U.S. Catholic colleges By Robert Di Veroli Tribune Religion Writer T HE FUTURE of U.S. Catholic colleges and universi~ies could in large measure hmge on the outcome of a struggle over a Vatican attempt to exercise stricter control over the kind of theology taught in such institutions, At issue is the relationship tween the church's "magisterium," or teaching authority in matters of faith and morals, and what many Catholic academicians believe is a Catholic university's right to aca- demic freedom and institutional au- tonomy. Involved are such thorny questions as the seemingly antithetical rights of theologians to probe, challenge, even publicly dis- sent from church 1~t<;!lli!.1&:t.. and !1 a r , 1

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lie schools could, if necessary, 1·m their own accreditation agerl~S similar to existing Jewis~ a~d et1s- tian accreditation assoi:1atlons hat are recognized by the federal ov- er~he;!a critics also say it fa~ to recognize that a theologian i~re than a catechist and that a umvEs1ty is more than a parish reli~iowedu• cation program charged_ with tilch- oc rme. The Vatican. nevertheless, ha nt h d t ing official churc out repeated signa s cerned about how official c c a 1 15 h teachmgs on fai~ a~ taught in Catholic mstltubod of higher learning. '?or~ s I th t ·t . on d 1are

catholicity. The Rev. Norbert Rigali of the USD Theology and Religious Studies Department says the Vatican urgent- ly needs to more clearly d_efine _wh~t a theologian is and docs smce, m his view, a theologian is more than a mere catechist. "These problems are not going to go away, but you don't just _solve them by fiat," he says. "What L'! th,e role of the theologian? If the~e s room for dissent for a theologian, you find that by determining what a theologian is in the first place. And you'd have to start with the i~ea that a theologian is not a catechist, that we do not serve the church in the way a c t hist does." The Rev. Raymond 0. Ryland, also of the USD religious studies depart- ment says the ma ter is clear enough already since the chur~h plainly teaches that the Cath?hc faith is defined by the pope and b1Sh- ops not by theologians. Ryland says the accusa~ion_ that the Vatican goal is indoctrmation ts a smokescreen. "The notion that if one is teaching what the Catholic Church officially teaches that's indoctrination, but that if one allows all kinds of freewheeling statements to the con- trary, that's not indoctrination, is ab- surd," Ryland says.

which they are not may be declar~ "no longer Catholic" by the au th ori- If implemented the schema wou require that all Catholic university professors display not only profe:i- sional competence, but a .certain "doctrinal integrity and uprightness of life" needed to justify their contin- ued presence on a Catholic faculty, It IS . such language that has_ _stirred so many Catholic academ1c1ans to P rotest. Critics of the schema.are ad- amantly opposed to any atlcan a - tempt to impose what they rega~d as outside control over Cathohc umver- ties. ld V t

San DI go, CA (S n Diego Co.) S n Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,089) (Cir. S. 341 ,840)

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Rev. Joseph O'Hare, Fordhan Uni- versity president, have gone stfar as to suggest that implementaton of

Like many other Catholic colleges, the Universit of San Die~ is run by a board of trustees. Its members, ap- proximately 34, are nominated by and subject to majority-vote approv- al of the board. Its chairman of the board, Bishop Leo T. Maher, says a Catholic b1Shop has a right to control the teaching of the Catholic faith in a Catholic col- lege or university in bis diocese as a means of ensuring its catholicity. Both the schema and Canon Law, he says require Catholic college theolo- gy professors to have "a mandate from the competent ecclesiastical authorities" before they may teach in Catholic colleges and universities. "Competent ecclesiastical a_uthori- ties," says Maher, means the b1Shop~- "Tbat's what the argument ts about today." USD President Dr. Author E. HugheS WaS one of 14 U.S. Catholic college presidents who in March 1986 signed a statement sent to ome pro- teotffig ki f'' . " n envisaged by the Baum schema. Implementation of the Vatican plan, they say, would mean "that our universities are not universities at all, but places of narrow sectarian indoctrination; hence they have no right to claim public monies to sup- port what would be described as their proselytizing mission." One of the critics' chief fears is that the plan, if implemented, would endanger the accreditation of Catho- lic universities and thus their eligi- bility for the approximately $500 million they receive each year in state and federal funds. Others say the loss in funds will not be signifi- cant and, more importantly, that the Catholic university's catholicity is more important than mere institu- tional survival. Kenneth D. Whitehead, deputy as- sistant secretary for higher educa- tion in the U.S. Department of Edu- cation, says the Baum schema would not jeopardize the schools' eligibility for "the bulk" of federal financial aid "because most government financial aid goes to students, not to schools. There is not a religious test applied." On the state level, however, not all church-affiliated schools receive fi- nancial aid, Whitehead says. As for accreditation, , itehead says Catho-

can pl y under a green card or whether a new foreign-player visa is requ1r d The MISL collective-bar- gaining agr ment adopted last year stipulates foreign-born athlete· must play at east three years at a U.S. school t qualify for gr en-card eligi- b1lity. "I t I am a complete player," Wilhelm 1d from Salt Lake City, wh r he IS working at a soccer facil- ity. "I'm confid nt I can do well at indoor cer, but I must prove my If to th coaches and the peo- ple." Ca tro 5-7, 155) was chosen by the Sockers r ur year · ago out of high chool bu elected to go to Indiana, where h cored 17 goals. His broth r, 1ego, plays for Wichita. "H c d have been a full-fledged Ml L pla er by now (if be had signed four years ago)," ewman said "He's sUll good enough to work with." Newman id he didn't see any goalies he liked in the draft but plans to look at the University of San Fran- cisco's Mark Powell, who started training with the Sockers' reserve team at end of last season. • • • Commi.s:iioner Bill Kentling said an announcement regarding expan- sibn could come by the end of leagus! meeting Friday. The Dail_v Camera of Boulder, Colo., is reporting that Denver will get an expansion team for the 1988-89 season, contingent upon the team selling 5,000 season tickets by November ... Cleveland general manager Al Miller resigned ye ·terday morning. His relations wi th Cleveland management had soured the past few months ... MISL coaches voted Kansas City's Dave Clements as coach of the year by a narrow margin over Tacoma's Alan Hinton . .. Bruce Savage of Balti- more was named defender of the year and Cleveland's John Stollmeyer was rookie of the year. Kevin Crow and Fernando Clavijo of the Sockers were fourth and fifth in the voting for top defender . . . Kai Haaskiv1 of Cleveland won the Su- perstars competition, a 10-event test of soccer skills. Gus Mokalis of the Lazers was second, and San Diego's Waad Hirmez was third . .. No trades for draft picks were made this year. (Staff writer Ric Bucher contributed to tbls report.) ___ A

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'' There should be,ome significant relationship between the churc~'s doctrinal teachings and an institution that caJs itself a Catholic university ----~------' ' He ys secular standards of aca- demic fr1:edom do not ..pply to Cath- olic theologians and "t the issue is: Should students i a holic college

diocese. The issue centers largely on whether academic freedom has the same meaning in a Catholic universi- ty as it does in a secular universit)'., The Roman Catholic Church, while granting that knowledge is con~inu- ously being updated - even i:ad1cal- ly revised - in such secular hel_ds as physics, astronomy or _chemistry, does not grant the same m th~ cas_e of faith and morals, m which 1t claims divine guidance. Core teachings on faith and morals are open to development and deeper understanding, the church would say, bit not to radical, contradictory re- vision. The Catholic college issue has been simmering for years, with charges flying that Catholic universities have largely lost their Catholic character and become centers of dissent rather than orthodoxy. But it has come to a head with the publication of a 1985 Vatican docu- ment that would place U.S. Catholic colleges and universities more di- rectly under the control of bishops as far as the teaching of faith and mor- als is concerned, an arrangement that has been greeted with dismay and hostility by many Catholic acad- emicians. Prepared by the Vatican Congre- gation For Catholic Education, the document is popularly known as the "Baum schema," named after its prefect, Cardinal William W. ~aum, former archbishop of Washington, D.C. Both the schema and canons 807· 814 of the church's 1983 Code of Canon Law would give an unnamed "competent ecclesiastical authority" - presumably bishops - the right to certify a college as Catholic and to hire and fire theology professors ac- cordingly.

U,e Baum schema might forCECatho- lic colleges to escape church tontrol by declaring themselves n onger Catholic. That might be a good id , 1ccord- ing to one l)SD~oJessor whoiays be believes mtnifCatbolic colleges have de-catholicized themselves. "It would at least help c r the air," says the faculty member: ~ho requested anonymity, explammg, "Dissent on this issue is not tderated I round ' ·;;,.;...~ea :;:_st then co ,cges tlat are calling themselves Catholic, but in fact are not, will no longer beable to advertise themselves as dtholic. It'll also allow for an oppor nity to create new, genuinely Cathoic uni- versities that are not Catholicpri~a- rily in name only, so that thal might be a good move in the long .' Despite the avalanche of ticism generated by the schema, b4wever, the so-called ''truth in packaig" ar- gument - that Catholic lieges should teach official Catholi1 doct- rine not the theories of the gians - ~!early is the current atican view. "I believe Rome will ev tually come out with a document t t will definitely place the universlies in some manner under the juri iction of the local bishop," Maher says. "Without that, they cannot beCatho- In his annual address opening USD's 1986-87 academic year, Hugnes acknowledged that ''funda- mental differences" exist between the schema and the college presi- dents' statement he signed pro esting the schema. He repeated the critics' con ntion that "the essence of academi~ free- dom is the absence of contro\ from any body outside the university" and that the function of a Catholic uni- D versity is more than simply ransmitting the Catholic faith. Hughes says that USD "does not proselytize or indoctrinate for the church" and that tensions a be· tween the magisterium and teaching theologians "as interpretations of the 1agisterium var ." e Because he declined to be inter- viewed for this article, w~at he meant by this remains unclear, but Maher says one thing it cotld not mean is that there is more ttan one magisterium, or church teacling au- thority. . . "There's only one mag1s:er1um, the one made up of the pope md the bishops," he says. "That's all There is no other magisterium." lic."

theology and religion classes get, in a positive way what the church teach- es or what theologians prefer to teach? Resistance to the Baum schema, he a s, is "an attempt to oppose any effort to make certain that what stu- dents get in a classroom is authenti- cally Catholic." Monsignor Richard Duncanson, rector of St. Francis Seminary, says he basically endorses the sche~a, but that instruction in the faith at a Catholic college is primarily the re- sponsibility of its campus ministry program. But Duncanson, chairman of a 15- member Catholic Awareness Com- mittee concerned wilh the Catholic nature of USD, says since the univer- sity is a teaching institution rather than a research facility, it should transmit official church teachings, not "current speculation" by theolo- gians. He says that for accreditation and federal funding purposes, Catholic universities prefer to regul~te t~e~- selves, but that he does not, mprmc1- ple, object to such universities being subject to a bishop's guidance. Duncanson says theologians who publicly dissent from church teach- ings clearly have created "confu- sion" among Catholics, a situation that the Baum schema probably seeks to rectify. The unidentified {,J_filL!_aculty member says he thought the schema was long overdue because Catholic colleges for years have been drifting away from church teachings. "There should be some significant relationship between the church's doctrinal teachings and an institution that calls itself a Catholic universi- ty," he says. "I'm not sure we always do that." He says bishops have a right to make sure Catholic universities teach, in a positive light, what the church teaches. "I don't think that's a ing too much," be says. Catholic Awareness Committee member and USD Professor Dr. Rob- ert O'Neil, who say- ~atholic profes- sors at USD are in a minority, say the schema is out of st~ wit the times. "The church at one time tried to prevent Galileo from teaching error and found out some time later it was not Galileo that was in error but the church," he says. Sister Alice Gallin, ACCU execu- tive director, says she likes the ap- proach adopted by Archbishop Rem- bert Weakland of Milwaukee, Wis., who publicly identified Marquet University Professor Daniel Ma- guire's pro-abortion views as out of step with the Catholic faith, but per- mitted him to continue teaching at the university anyway. "The reason I prefer that appn,ach is that we talk then about issues and not the right to dissent," Weakland says. "I think that's what we all need now."

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on till, cwman said of Wilhelm , "I don't even think of him not makmg it. The others are up for grabs We defi- 1tely plan on offering him a con• tract." Of th Sockers' four lections (one In each round), only th rd r und pick Rod r.a tro of nd1ana played in the five-day cries of scrimmage· and pra tic that culminated Tuesday with the Budwe1 r Cla ic. After Wilh lms, the Sockers chose Paul Wright of Grossmont High in the econd round, Castro third and USD's Bo Kaemerlc fourth. Newman on iders Wright and Kaemerle long- term proiects. Picking ,, enth overall, San Diego took Wilhelm , a 25-year-old sweeper who captain d Foothill to the 1986 California Community College title. He trained with the Socker · last win- ter and was a two-time JC All-Amer• 1can. "He showed excellent defensive ability," said assistant coach Johan Aarino. "He reads the game well, 1s very mature m decision-making and as good vision We classify him as a defender, but he has the ability to go forward." Wilhelms (5-11, 160 pounds) is a na- tive of Sinze1g, We t Germany, and a graduate of the University of Col- gne. The Sockers are not sure if he

The schema says the Catholic uni- versity "exists within the church and is part of it" and cites Section 808 of the Code of Canon Law, which says that "No university, even if it is in fact Catholic, may bear the title 'Catholic university' except by the consent of the competent ecclesiastic authority." The schema says bishops "have the duty and the right of seeing to it that, in these universities, the principles of Catholic doctrine are faithfully ob- served" and that such ~versities in Please see COLLEGESj ~-6

San Mateo, CA (San Mateo Co.) Times (Cir. SxW. 49,793)

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Dietitian ~larifies 9 S' ~~·-:(\~ : . . nutrition advice . Americans are being told quite a bit these days about fiber, o_ne of the hottest topics in nutrition. It's being praised as an aid in cancer prevention, assistance in w¢ight control and even for helping to stabilize blood sugar levels in diabetic patients. · · · Now Susan Algert, a dietitian at the UC San Dieg_o Medical Center, would like you to know that not all fiber works the same way in the body. · Some types of fiber - found in wheat bran, whole grains, , I cereals and strawberries - are water-insoluble. So they absorb wate r, wi ~hout_dissolving, and help pi:event constipation. The fiber m oat bran, on the other hand, is water soluble and ~?s been shown to help decrease blood cholesterol levels, stab1ltze blood sugars and decrease fat absorption, according to Algert . She says this kind of fiber is found in such foods as oatmeal, dried beans, rolled oat products and apples.. . Algert suggests several simple ways to increase fiber intake, such as substituting fresh fruit for juices, and adding bran to .pancake batter, salads and soups. She recommends a high fiber intake, ranging from 30 to 50 grams daily, but says the levels should be increased graduafiy. . She has a final useful suggestion. Individuals planning to mc~ease systematically their fiber intake should talk with t~e1r doctor or nutritionist to ascertain the type and amouyt likely to be most beneficial to them: ----·---- - -

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Any USD professor wh_o iresents in class the church's teaching111, say, artificial contraception, but te_n e~- plains why he thinks that tea \mg-IS invalid, would be a candidate t>r dis- missal, Maher says. "No theologian has a right_Uteach against the church's authent ea~h- ing," the bishop says. "They ~iY d1~- sent privately. They may dll!USS 1t privately, but once they ea~h, they're taking over a prer(atlve that's not theirs." Still, Maher says he sees "1 _con- flict" between his and Hughes11ews on the controversy and, mo,over,

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