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...Galbraith: The Life and Times of John Kenneth Galbraith," an hour-long feature scheduled to air next week on Channel 2, was preceded by introductory remarks from Graham Allison, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Henry P. Becton Jr., president of WGBH, and William E. Buckley, a longtime personal friend and political adversary who moderated Galbraith's documentary. Galbraith spoke briefly after the viewing...
...Buckley, who described Galbraith as a "beloved friend," offered wry characterizations both in his introduction to the show last night and in his capacity as moderator of the documentary...
...Buckley sees it, four main issues in the church today "strain reason as well as faith": clerical celibacy, women priests, contraception, and the indissolubility of marriage. He accepts Rome's position on all four, although he is troubled by the reasoning behind the ban on birth control, hopes for a tad more flexibility on remarriage after divorce, and sees no doctrinal barrier to the eventuality of a married priesthood (which exists in the church's Eastern rite...
...surprisingly, the conservative Buckley has a lingering nostalgia for the Latin liturgy of old. Dripping scorn, he describes a nuptial Mass celebrated "according to the current cant, with everybody popping up and kneeling down." To Buckley, the jazzed-up ritual with its implicit boosterism ("Who do we appreciate--Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!") is "awful." In fairness, though, he could have mentioned some of the Tridentine excrescences that led to the Second Vatican Council's reforms: hymns of stunning vapidity and priests muttering their way through Low Mass with the graceless speed of tobacco auctioneers...
What animates Nearer are Buckley's personal chapters: his recollection of a year or so at a Jesuit boarding school in England, an awed visit to Lourdes, and a moving account of his nephew Michael Bozell's ordination as a Benedictine priest in France. In a charming tribute to onetime Punch editor Malcolm Muggeridge, he recounts, with dry hilarity, a private audience with the Pope at which a badly briefed John Paul II seemed utterly baffled as to who his guests were. (Buckley nonetheless managed to inform the Pope--and us--that he too has a private chapel at home...