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Show The Salt Lake Tribune RELIGIONSaturday, May 27,1995 employees and contractors who developed a nicelittle sideline: removing equipment frommilitary bases andSellingit for scrap This was nosubtle theft. During three years theyallegedly pilfered everything fromcleaning supplies. Anothertestis to consider the costs and benefits of pilfering in the workplace. If, for example, everyone weretaking computer disks home 0. padding their expenses, this would eventually affect the companyfinan- cially openers and mobile medical io jet engines anda rocket sncher sy even showedupin uniform Kathieen Getz, a professor ofphilosophy at American University, suggests that most actions won't pass ap dealer with a p truck full of booty. Police say they turned the cargo into cash andthen made a deal onthetruck. Bul the scrap yard was the cost-benefits test “If you're going out and \ ) account, that's only con- a tributing to your personal actually a sting operation $600.000in stolen merchandise. Given the magnitudeof the alleged crime. it's hard to feel sympathy for the people involved — let alone identify withtheir actions. But what about the more subtle pilfer- welfare,” says Getz. “You're essentially forcing shareholdersto buygifts for your family.” It's hard to see that taking 99-cent legal pads andballpoint pens is going to hurt the companybottom line. But this line of reasoning can be dangerous, says Purdue University ethicist John Pomeroy. Overtime, ingthat is a daily fact oflife in the American workplace? Thenotebooks and computer disks you carried home to your kids. Thedinners with friends you he says, small acts can chip awayat your sense of what's permissible. He likensthesituationto pile of sand. “You can take awayonegrain at a time,” he says. “And soon, although dinal Cahal Daly, voiced a plea for jobs and social justice as the prerequisites for peace. “There have been 25 years of violence and eight monthsof peace. The changeis irreversible,” said Daly, who resides in the northern city of Armagh, where Catholic-Protestant animosity is high and unemployment among Catholics is so severe that many households have lived for generations without a breadwinnerin the house. Dunlop and Dalybelieve a return to a commonChristian ethic may provide the answer for Irish Catholics and Protestants, who have been at odds since Henry VIII declared himself king of Ireland and established the Protestant Reformation there. put on corporate expense no one can quite agree whenit hap- accounts. The long-distance personal calls on the companydime. In some circles, such practices pened, you've taken awaya pile.” Ata time when so many workers are disgruntled about they way they are treated by their employers, pilfering can be easyto rationalize. Many of the 19 people caughtin Philadelphia might have felt this way. are common. But does that makeit right? If there's no rule againstit, lightfingered workersfigure, it must be Mostof them were dueto losetheir OK. And everybody else doesit The articles are so small they'd hardly be missed. Besides, the workers don't get paid enough and lifting a few items helps even the jobs because of cutbacks. Pomeroy suggests values should transcendthe situation. “If you have a moralsystem that says you only donice things when peopletreat you nice in return, that score John Houlihan, ethics professor at the University of Southem Maine, hasa usefulrule to assess doesn't work.” the validity of such excuses: Decide whether you would remove items from your neighbor's house as freely as you would remove them from the workplace. you're stealing because you aren't Andif you feel you deserve what getting paid enough, Pomeroysays, whynotjust askfora raise? What's your opinion? ‘The importantthing is consis- © 1995 Religion News Service Rigby said. Not everyonefinds in the new scripture additional light and truth, however. John Muirof Davis Countysaid muchof the book is “filled with expanded and fanciful accounts of old prophets like Abraham, Adam, and some new Nimrod.” The book promises but fails to “reveal things of the future,” Muirsaid In addition, Muir noted several passages describing the prophet Abraham dancing naked with several of his wives. This work claims to celebrate “some kind of holy ravishment” where the enlightened few “expend fluids into the waiting mouths of those who want to be filled with the light and holiness of the power of God,” Muir said. “This soundslike an orgy to me.” Jenet Hansen, who signed the ad, said the passages to which Muir was referring were “from Abraham's personal diary and that was his experience, not ours. “God only gives us what is for our highest good,” she said. “I don't believe in a God whohas any need for sexual perversions.” All the ad’s signers want to dois share their spiritual experiences, Rigby said. “God and Jesus are getting readyto divide the sheep fromthe goats,” Rigby said. The criterion is not church membership, but “what's in your heart.”” Doomsayers Are Having Their Say @ Continued from D-1 eTE t tions,” he said. Rigby said he has been having daily exchanges with God and Jesus Christfor at least the past two years and in muchofhis life does only what God tells him to do — like placing the ad. Someoneelse in the movement, he said, was likewise told to payforit David Whitmer, a Sandy contractor and fatherof nine, claims to have had similar divine manifestations for the past 10 years « He also claims to have received -* sacred writings known to Mormonsas “the sealed portion of the Book of Mormon.” Mormonsbelieve that founder Joseph Smith was commanded by Godnot to translate all the writing on the gold plates he received from a heavenly messenger. Together, Rigby and Whitmer »produced Sacred Scripture, ' which includes writings they purport are from the Old Testament prophet Abraham and the Mor?} mon prophet Moroni They sell the book for cost, @ Continued from D-1 op, William Weigand. Weigand, now bishopof the Diocese of Sacramento, recruited several Colombian priests for the Utah diocese during his 13-year tenure as Utah’s bishop. “After I finished my master’s degree, I met a priest who was working in Idaho,” Silva said. “He told meif I had any expectations about being a priest here, I should talk with Bishop Weigand. So after I visited my parents in Brooklyn [N.Y.], I came to Salt Yd their professional preparations with spirituality. “As a priest, you will have situations that you never had before, new pastoral experiences,” he said, “This is my concern. People think that once you are priest, you know everything, but I am still learning.I plan to be open, to continue training, studying and learning. 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While he is comfortable with Bring in this ad and AC RESPECT LangesSilva will be crdained Inventory obtained from U.S. Government auctions plus other cor estates which constitutes the majority of merchandise offered at JEWELRY pieces Rolex watches, hundreds of 44K Gold “We have a variety of people, customs and languages here,” he said. Utah's multicultural Catholic population is a microcosm ofthat of the United States, said Silva. Andserving this diverse population is the challenge of the U.S. church. “Weall want answers and the church needs to extend the word of Godto all,” he said. “Everyone wants the church to do something. Everyone, rich and poor, need assistance.” Silva also plans to carry on the tradition of good relations with other faiths — an emphasis that Weigandcultivated and Niederauer has pledged to continue. “Since I camehere,I realize it is importantto learn about other churches,especially the LDS [The Church of Jesus Christ of LatterdaySaints],” he said. “We need to do this to work in commonforthe benefit of people.” dedication to prayer to augment PUBLIC AUCTION Cay view, is for Protestants and Catholics to move “not from dependencetc independence, but to interdependence. Thatis a much higher form of being than independence.” Already, the grip of the Roman Catholic Churchis slipping in Ireland. Though the constitution of the Irish Republic outlaws abortion, the Supreme Court recently ruled that clinics could give clients information on seeking abortion in other countries. And a referendum is pending on whetherto allow divorce. “Religion andpolitics have becomeso intertwined in Ireland that many call themselves Catholics only as a political position or sociological stance,” said Daly. “Some call themselves Protestants who have never been baptized.” Dunlopsees the growingsecularism in Irish society as having some benefits, but considerable risk. his training, Silva realizes he will need more than academic knowledge to be a good priest. “When you are a priest, people cometo you for answers,” he said. “J hope I can give the answers that people need, and to be with them and provide the love and support they need.” Alongwith “‘a good formation,” Silva said priests need a special Niederauer To Ordain Man Into Priesthood board soon will meet to discuss ways of expanding recruitment efforts for newpriests. After seminary, in which he completed high school, Silva studied philosophy three years and then theology for four years at chureh-related Colombian higher education institutions. He then studied canonlaw for three years. Evenhis decision to immigrate to the United Statesis not surprising. Manyof his family members. have immigrated, some as long as 30 years ago. A brother andsister remain in Colombia. Silva's initial connection with the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City involved Utah's former bish- Ireland’s great moral challenge, in Dunlop's lop and his Roman Catholic counterpart, Car- buying gifts for your family \ onthe company expense 4 cow! being run by the FBI. Nineteen people were arrested and chargedwith selling about Dunlop,the respected former moderator of the Presbyterian Church ofIreland, envisions time as a straight line, piercing the darkness of human existence and lit with moments of opportunity for deep and meaningful change. He believes Ireland hasarrived at one of those rare transformational moments. A nation tornby religious animosity may be readyto remakeitself into a tolerantstate. “This moment offers an opportunity to define a newfuture for Northern Ireland,” said Dunlop, regardedas an articulate interpreter of the concerns ofIrish Protestants, who, if North and South were united, would be outnumbered5 to 1 by Catholics. “Tf the new Ireland is understood as a homogeneous Catholic state, there is no room for me,” Dunlop said. But how does a nation whose public ethos has been shaped by RomanCatholic tradition rosa your church think? Is there anyone whois important to you who would be appalled?” husbandor wife think? What would again. > tency,” he says. 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Sandy, UT 84070 801-571-3600 ite) RESERVATIONS CALL 1-800-321-2211 OR YOUR TRAVEL Peay ah hee ee By Kathleen Murray “The fundamental statement we make in both traditions is that men and women are made in the image of a triune God. Thus we must create a society interested in relationships and concord, not power or coercion,” Dunlop said. and teachings not only make room for other beliefs, but appreciate them? And as Ireland follows the leadof other industrializing nation and abandonstraditional values for secular culture, what moral glue will hold the nation together? As hundredsof business andpolitical leaders gathered here this week for a White House Conference to spur U.S. investment in economically depressed Northern Ireland, Dun- ByJoan Connell RELIGION NEWS SERVICE Dao pee oe (): Doesn't everyonepilfer from work? Nd Irish Presbyterian Laments Secularism sommes ETHICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE |
