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Thank you for your article on me and the ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ [Jan. 3]. In referring to my socalled right-wing political views, however, you are apparently parroting other secular publications which have not secured the facts...
...although at least 400 others have been released since Franco's death), a student on the edge of the crowd was suddenly shot dead by an unidentified civilian. Most observers blamed the shooting on an extremist right-wing group calling itself the Guerrilleros de Cristo Rey (Guerrillas of Christ the King). Next day, at a hastily called rally to protest the student's murder, a young woman's skull was crushed by a smoke-grenade canister fired by riot police, who have gained a reputation for brutality in their handling of left-wing demonstrators...
...Christ a Man. The decision came in the form of a papally endorsed 18-page decree issued by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.-In arguing for its view, the Vatican emphasized that Christ "was and remains a man." It placed even more emphasis on Christ's decision not to call any woman, not even the Virgin Mary, as an apostle, and on the church's "unbroken tradition" of male priests ever since. Declaring that priests must have a "natural resemblance" to Christ, it said that with a woman celebrating the Mass "it would...
...insisted that its rejection of women as priests would "help in deepening understanding of the respective roles of men and of women." There was no question of equality involved, it said, because "priesthood does not form part of the rights of the individual" but derives from "the mystery of Christ and the church...
...missionary priest to Asia, currently in Rome, criticized the reasoning that priests must be men because Christ chose only male apostles. If so, he said, "the priesthood should be open only to fishermen and Jews." The shortage of missionary priests, according to American Moral Theologian Francis X. Murphy, is one element that may eventually change Vatican thinking. Says he: "Women will be ordained when there is necessity for it, as there is in the Third World. You can't have the church without the Eucharist...