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...Your treatment of celibacy is misleading, superficial and one-sided. You cite exceptional cases to show that the celibate priesthood is falling apart. You should realize that the church's situation in South America is anything but favorable. What you attribute to some priests there may be one of many symptoms of a more widespread disease infecting South America's Christianity. Perhaps in South America many priests "who found celibacy no problem were either emotionally immature or latent homosexuals." But don't imply that this is so everywhere...
...your penetrating Essay, "The Sorry State of Divorce Law" [Feb. 11], you refer to the conciliation court as a possible hope for the future and cite Los Angeles' as an example of what can be accomplished. We submit that marriage and divorce are not the province of the law and the courts. Domestic breakup is an emotional tragedy that should be handled by family centers, where concentration would be upon the causes of marital discord rather than the symptoms, and where the jungle atmosphere that pervades the court and the lawyer's office would be eliminated completely...
...business firms, she insists, will adopt flexible hiring practices and working schedules so women can "retire for a few months" to have children, colleges will admit part-time graduate students, the federal government will finance reliable day-care nurseries for working mothers. She sees this glorious revolution, yet cannot cite any real "institutional improvements" that have been made and contest paradoxically, that "government will do something for women only when women themselves do something...
...cite these personal frictions, however, is not to deny that there were substantive issues dividing the two groups. The majority claimed that Curry had failed to provide the City with sufficiently energetic leadership. Publically, they criticized his slowness on capital improvements, and privately they complained that he had been reluctant to appoint a top-level assistant city manager to help in the job. They felt that Curry had taken on too much for himself; and, as a result, important tasks were being left either undone or half-done...
...refusal to cite the three would represent the first time that Congress has not acted in accord with HUAC proposals to cite for contempt, Howe said. A possibility, which Howe called remote, is that Congress might refer the Chicago affair to the House Judiciary Committee...