Wednesday, November 13, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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On birth control ban
Bishops draft letter to quell priest dissent
WASHINGTON (UPI)—A seven-member drafting committee headed by Bishop John J. Wright of Pittsburgh labored in secret yesterday over the wording of a pastoral letter in which the U.S. Catholic hierarchy hopes to quell a revolt by some priests and laity against Pope Paul's ban on contraception.
Before the committee, as it worked in a carefully guarded suite of the Washington Hilton Hotel, were written submissions from a number of bishops, giving their views on the matter.
The drafting committee's product will be called up for debate, probably today, by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Biafran, Nigerian to meet in forum
A Biafran and a Nigerian will confront each other in a Biafra Forum at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Participants will include Joel Adedeji, guest director of theater and a native of Nigeria, Emmanual Ubamadu, a Biafran student at KU and Gerald Brown, an instructor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City who lived in Nigeria for several years.
The discussion, sponsored by the International Club, will be followed by a question and answer session.
Two sharply conflicting viewpoints were represented in the closed-door deliberations. The drafters had the task of finding some verbal formula that would command a sufficiently wide assent to be issued as a joint statement of the entire U.S. hierarchy.
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On one hand were prelates, like Cardinal Patrick O'Boyle of Washington, who felt the controversy has gone beyond the specific issue of birth control and has become a challenge to the whole concept of papal authority. They would deal firmly with dissidents, warning them in effect to "obey or get out."
On the other hand were bishops who feared a hardline reassertion of ecclesiastical authority would serve only to drive vast numbers of Catholics out of the church. They wanted the U.S. hierarchy to follow the example already set by the bishops of Canada, France, Belgium, Germany and other Western European nations.
Bishops in the second group emphatically noted Pope Paul recently accepted "with satisfaction" the Canadian bishops' pastoral letter. That letter contained a forthright recognition of the rights of private conscience.
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It appeared possible the language of the Canadian pastoral—already demonstrated to be acceptable to the Vatican—might become a model for the American statement.
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