“I recently heard two priests, Joseph Fessio, S.J., and John McCloskey (spokesperson for Opus Dei), say that if the Church changes the teaching on contraception, it will cease to exist,” writes Garry Wills in the New York Review of Books (December 5). “Just think–all the original and saving truths of the Church (creation, incarnation, resurrection, the sacraments, last judgment, eternal life) are not worth a thing if condoms are allowed. Every other aspect of Catholic life and thought through the ages is held hostage to this one ‘truth.’ This seems a high price to pay just to spare a pope the embarrassment of admitting that he can be wrong on some things.”
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People not quoted in the regular media. From the on-line newsletter the “View from the Ground” (November 9): “Consider the question that has been asked again and again by CHA residents at community meetings convened for the purpose of presenting the Plan for Transformation–a plan under which thus far more than half of the family public housing units in the city have been demolished and scarcely any new housing has been built. The question takes a somewhat different form depending on where the meeting is held. On the West Side, residents ask, ‘When the Bulls built the United Center, they continued to play in the old Stadium until the new stadium was ready. Why is this different?’ On the South Side, they ask, ‘When the White Sox built the new Comiskey Park, they continued to play in the old Comiskey Park until the new park was ready. Why is this different?’”
