Words & Works

P: Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary, headquarters of Conservative Judaism, announced plans to raise $32 million over a ten-year period to establish a Human Brotherhood Center at the seminary, with branches in Los Angeles and Jerusalem. Curriculum of the new center's Institute for Religious and Social Studies will include the areas of belief common to Protestants, Catholics and Jews.

P: In his sermon at the annual "Red Mass"* of the New York Guild of Catholic lawyers, the Rev. Laurence J. McGinley, S.J., president of Fordham University, attacked the "obsessive liberalism" of the present day--"that frightened and frantic pursuit of freedom alone and at all costs." Obsessive liberalism, he said, "not only seeks an excess of freedom but denies any function to authority save that which is temporary, remedial--and for others. It has made 'authoritarian' a bad word in the semantics of our day. It has proliferated committees in defense of every freedom, but none to uphold authority. It has identified social progress only with the expansion of liberties and the severing of authority's bonds. Basically and most dangerously, it is egocentric, as all obsessions are, in its refusal to acknowledge any authority, whether of man or God."

* So called for its red vestments, worn in Masses invoking the guidance of the Holy Ghost.

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