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The Linacre QuarterlyVolume 31 | Number 2 Article 3May 1964Father MacKinnon Named Moderator of NationalFederation of Catholic Physicians' GuildsCatholic Physicians' GuildsFollow this and additional works at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnqRecommended CitationCatholic Physicians' Guilds (1964) "Father MacKinnon Named Moderator of National Federation of Catholic Physicians' Guilds," TheLinacre Quarterly: Vol. 31 : No. 2 , Article 3.Available at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnq/vol31/iss2/3Father MacKinnon Named Moderator of National Federation of Catholic Physicians' Guilds ~everend Ke?neth P. MacKinnon, Moderator of the Catholic Physicia1 s' Gmld of Detroi~, _has be~n appointed to succeed the late Rt. Rev. Donald 1.. ~cG~wa~ as . Spmtual Director of the N ational Federation of Catholic Phy i-oans _Gmlds. The an?ouncement was made on April 2. No stranger to the ,e ~ttendrng_ the Fe_derat1on Board meetings, Father MacKinnon has participat ·d 10 .e~e.cut1ve sessions for the pa~t se:veral years. H e is deeply interested in t ie activities a~d ~elfare ot th_e national organization. He has served as Moderat ir of th~ Guild m J?etro1t since 1951 and brings to the post a background ,f expenence that will be of great benefit to the Federation. A native of Detro!t, Father MacKinnon was born February 23, 1919. i-:: is colleg~ work and philosophy studies were pursued at Sacred Heart Semina y an? his. theology at Mt. St. Mary's of the West, Norwood, Ohio. He was er-damed m 194?. Gra?uate work in history was done at the University of Detrc it where he _received his M.A. degree in 1955 . Advanced studies in Church music were contmued at the Gr~gorian Institute of America from 1958 to 1960. Fro,n !945-1950 Father 1:-'fa: Kmnon served in the parish of St. Thomas the Apost.e m !'nn Arbor, M1ch1gan. From 1950 until the present time he has been stationed at Sac~ed He~rt Seminary High School, Detroit and is' currently Prn-f~ssor of Amencan History and Chai rman of the Department of Music a1: d Fm~ Arts . F~r some yea:s he has s_erved as religious music advisor to radt0 station WJR 10. the sele~tion of music for Catholic radio pulpit programs. Fat~er MacKmnon will serve a two-year term as National Moderator. At the same time, ~he Mos_t Reverend Joseph B_. Brunini , Auxiliary Bishop of NatcheL-Jackson,. Miss., Ep1s_copal Advisor to the Bureau of Health and Hospitals c-f t~e National Catholic_ Welfa~e Co~ference will likewise be the Episcopal Ad-visor to the Federation. His offJCial delegate for Board activities will t, e Reverend Harrold A. 1:-'f_urray, Director of the Bureau of Health and Hospitals of N .C.W.C., the pos_1t10n held by Monsignor McGowan at the time of h is death. _Father Murray 1s weH known to the Catholic Physicians' Guilds iri the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey having had a great part in their found ing several years ago. The officers and those of the Federation who know and have worked wi th F~th~r MacKi~no_n rejoice in his appointment as Spiritual Director and trust this 1s the begmnmg of a happy and fruitful association. 48 LINACRE QUARTERLY . Religion and Psychiatry* DANA L. FARNSWORTH, M.D.** The old arguments concerning the hostility between religion and psychi-atry are dying down. Clergymen may still be suspicious of psychiatrists and psychiatrists may be intolerant of the clergy but these are personal attitudes and do not represent any fundamental incompatibility between their two dis-ciplines. Religion is concerned with spiritual matters; its central concern is the relationship of man ( or his soul) to God. Psychiatry deals with the inappropriate or inadequate ways man copes with his problems here on earth. Clergymen and psychiatrists are similar in their desire to help people. Though their basic approaches differ radically, each can help the other by kno\Vledge of one another's basic as-sumptions and methods. Erikson's distinction between psy-chology (including psychiatry and psychoanalysis) and religion seems almost like poetry to me : "Psychol-ogy endeavors to establish what is demonstrably true in human behavior, including such behavior as expresses what to human beings seems true and feels true .. .. Religion, on the other hand, elaborates on what feels pro-foundly true even though it is not demonstrable: it translates into sig-nificant words, images, and codes· the exceeding darkness which surrounds man's existence, and the light which pervades it beyond all desert or com-prehension. "1 Psychiatrists are primarily concern-ed with all kinds of troubled people 1Erikson, E. H .: Young Man Luther. New York: W . W . Norton. 1958. page 21. while clergymen must deal with those of their parishioners who are trou-bled; perhaps they must spend more of their time with them than with those who are not involved in any quandaries . But troubled people ap-·pear in many places and under a variety of labels . In the juvenile courts the delinquents appear. In the schools the troubled ones appear as truants, disciplinary problems, drop-outs, or underachievers. In family service agencies the quarreling par-ents and their children who respond with anxiety, physical symptoms, and behavior problems are omnipresent. Police officers find them as chronic traffic violators, alcoholics, drug ad-dicts, robbers, and molesters of wom-en and children. Judges dea l with the troubled in divorce proceedings, cus-tody problems, and in their decisions as to what should be done with those who . disturb the peace of a commun-ity. In the confessional priests must deal with every form of behavior not acceptable to society or to the indi-vidual confessor. Public officials must learn how to cope with cranks, zeal-. ots, members of hate groups, and those who would bribe or be bribed. It is all too easy to classify people as troubled or untroubled, sick or well, bad or good, dishonest or hon-est. This tendency is riot logical. All people display admixtures of desir-able and undesirable characteristics. Our task as individuals is to learn how to keep our desirable qualities in control; as clergymen and physicians our energies are directed toward teaching our troubled parishioners *Talk given to the Guild of St. Luke of Boston at Boston College, March 4, 1964. **Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene and Director of the University Health Serv-ices, Harvard University; Physician, Massachusetts G eneral Hospital. MAY, 1964 49 

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