News Scrapbook 1975-1977

Is merely "dethroned" for cle • nlng and will be back In It, niche before long, to be reminder to all who enter the business school.- SC photo

SACRED HEART 'DETHRONED'-ln the Southern Cross of July 21 , the picture, left, showed the slalue of the Sacred Heart over the building now designated for

the School of Buslneas • t USD. A week later the slatue disappeared, center, and Is eurrenlly beneath the trees behind the building. We are Informed the 5-foot slatue

'Ascent of Man' series due at USD "The Ascent of Man" film eri by the late Jacob Bronowski will be pr ented by the approach to each film. The fee is $30 for the complete series for which participants may earn two continued education credits. Single Advance registration is required through the by calling Conference Center office

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University of San Diego Conference Center on 13 consecutive Thursdays t. through Dec . 8. II performances will in alomon Lecture all at 7:30 p.m. Faculty members from the departments of religious ludies, art and science will participate in an interdisciplinary

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Son Diego, Saturday, August 6, 1977 DARWIN, FREUD, MARX CITED AS KEY FIGURES

Concept of modern theology bridges past and present

been replaced by anything new, Father Imbelli said. But he said a new system of thought is emerging based on the evolutionary themes of process and development popularized by the late Jesuit thinker, Teilhard de Chardin, and others. Father lmhelli says he often tells his students that Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx, all of whom were inspired by evolution, are the key figures now dominant in Christian theology. "Darwin showed that human biological development has been evolutionary, Freud gave impetus to the developmental theme in psychological tenns and iarx showed that societies also engage in a continuing proce of development," he said. • "I think that modern theology and religious education is more and more trying to come to grips v.ith their common themes of process and development," he added. He said Vatican II showed that many past ways of thinking were no longer suited to the modern church. "In the early church redemption, for example, meant being saved or released from this vale of tears and being admitted to the eternal bliss of Heaven," he said. "Today, theology adds to this the concept of emancipa- tion from social injustice. "Christ is seen not only as the redeemer, but as the liberator, the emancipator, not only from the conditions of earthly existence, this vale of tears, but from injus- tice." The more widespread knowledge today of Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism and other religions poses problems Aquinas did not have to contend with, Father Imbelli said.

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themselves, these values have nothing to say about the reality of God. In other words, a man could in th~ sense be secular and yet have a faith in the reality of God. "Secularism, on the other hand, maintains that the only reality is the reality of this world and that there is nothing else, so the question of God isn't even considered because it's simply ruled out at the beginning." Father Imbelli said that secularity, which is committed to the promotion of man's well-being does not rule out belief in God, but that secularism does and is thus not a valid option for the religious believer. "One can, in other words, be committed to the values of mankind and still be committed to God,'' he concluded. "This view, in fact, lies behind many of the papal social encyclicals of recent years."

"The response to the question of why Christ is different will itself be different because now I must answer it in a way that takes into account not only the Christian Gospels, but other religious traditions as well," he said. Father Imbelli said the church also must cope with the fact that it exists in a society characteriz.ed by secularity, which he distinguishes from secularism, however. "I think there's no doubt we live in a secular culture, but that's not necessarily a no-no word," he said. "That's merely a descriptive word to indicate a number of values felt by men and women of all times. "One example I always give 1s that it's a culture marked more by a sense of fraternity than a sense of the established institution coming down from the top . or

1odern theology has its eyes on the future rather than the past, says the Rev. Robert Imbelli, who teaches at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Semmary m Dunwoodie, N.Y. As a result, theology today sees itself as in a stream of development in:.tead of something completed in the past, he said. "The perspective has In a sense shifted the past towards some sort of future culmination, with Christ being understood as not merely a figure of the past, but also a future climax of God's own creative design," he said in an Interview. Father Imbel who is teachjng are)jgjoys education , said that contemporary theology's evolutionary perspective "shows that we can never fully grasp God and that the element of develop- ment in our understanding of Him is sort of unendmg." 1''ather Imbelli said this was the real lesson of the Second Vatican Council (1962~) "I think the real kernel of Vatican II was to let people know that the tradltion of the church is an ongomg thing, that it didn't stop at the Council of Nicea in the 4th century or the Council of Trent in the 16th century or even at Vatican II In the 20th. It tried to say that the church's tradition Is an ongoing process of trying to come to an ever-deepening understanding of the mystery of God and Christ." Some of th unease many Catholics feel about their church today has resulted because Jess reliance is being placed on the past, particularly the 13th century theology of St Thomas Aquinas, without the latter's having yet

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Society should treat the mentally retarded just like other people, says Sister Maxine Kraemer, director of St. Madeleine Sophie's Training Center for the Mentally Retarded in El cajon. "That's the way we treat them here," says Sister Maxine, a Roman Catholic nun who is chainnan of the National Apostolate for the Mentally Retarded's sev- enth annual conference next Wednesday through Saturday at _!!fill "I think lliat when God deprived these people of the gift of a normal IQ He made up for it with gills or the heart," she said. "If yo look at a group of these people when they're together, you see they're always very loving, wann and concerned about one another and really a neat group of people to work with. So I think they have a great deal to share with and give society if society would only accept them." Sister Maxine says one of the purposes of the NAMR conference will be to create a better community atmos- phere for the mentally re- tarded to live in. "'1/e hope to show what the community expects from them and what they can give the community," she said. "I really think they have an awful Jot to give If we'd only give them the chance." The NAMR, which is in- tended for parents, clergy, teachers and others inter-

ested m or working with the mentally retarded, will also cover such topics as genetic counseling, the meaning of suffering and genetic research. The keynote address will be given at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday by the Rev. Robert Lebel, Jesuit geneti- cist at the University of Wisconsin. On Thursday Father Lebel will speak at 9 a.m. on genetic clinics and Dr. Richard Philpott, San Diego physician, will speak at 11 a.m. on diagnostic proce- dures usect to detect genetic diseases. The rest of Thursday's session will include a 1p.m. talk on ethical issues in- volved in genetics by Fa- ther Lebel, a 7 p. . dtSCUS· sion on the future of genetic research oy Philpott and an 8 p.m. M and homily on

the value of life by the Rev. John Arelio of Rochester, N.Y. The Rev. Raymond Bucher, philosophy profes- sor at the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley, will speak Friday at 9 a.m. on social attitudes toward the mentally retard- ed and at 10 a.m. on the meaning of suffering. Fathers Bucher and Lebel will also lead a panel discussion on the meaning of suffering at a 1:30 p.m. Mass in Founder's Chapel. The conference will con- tinue Saturday with a 9 a.m. panel on parental re- sponsibility in genetic coun- seling featuring Father Lebel and Mr. and Mrs. Richard King. It will close with an 11 a.m. Mass at The Immacu- lata celebrated by the Rev. Eugene Lyons, director of

the Confraternity of Chris- tian Doctrine of the San Diego Romah Catholic Diocese. Sister Maxine is confer- ence registrar. St. Madeleine Sophie's Training Center opened in April 1966 as a preschool center for mentally retard- ed children, but since 1975 has operated a day-center program for adults. It is not affiliated with the San Diego Catholic Dioc.-ese. t lt1.'1,,F/ Lal

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Besides the Kearny con• Ungent, other newcomers to the USIU program include city prep standouts from last season Laurent Baker (Pt. Loma), Gary Cooper (Clairemont), and Ken Har- vey (Lincoln). From the county the esterners have picked up Cliff Crenshaw and Jim Foster from San- tana High, brothers Steve and Frank Taylor from Vista High and MiraCosta JC, and tt Koopsen from Carlsbad. Both USIU and USD plan to conclude the opening

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Applications to the 1978 Miss San Diego City and County Scholarship Pageant, an official prelim- inary to the Miss Amelica competition, are now avail- able to women between the ages of 18 and 26.

Entry deadline L~ Sept. 14. Preliminary interviews will be held Sept. 17 to select the top 10 finalists, who will compete in a talent contest for the city-county crown Oct. 29_ in the Universjty ot San Diego's Clnimo The-

Mrs. Thomas Bowes, left, chairman of invitations to a membership tea for the Un)versity of San Diego Auxiliary, held an addressing party recently. She is joined by Mrs. James Kassner, cochairman of the event with Mrs. John Riley, and Mrs. Harold A. Roth, Mrs. Bowes ' mother . The tea will be held Wednesday, Sept. 14, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the campus home of President and Mrs. Author E. Hughes, Casa de Alcala.