THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week CHRISTMAS IN THE CITY WINTER CAME EARLY to New York this year, as it...
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Christ and India He alone is capable of reconciling the ancient tradition of religion in India with the demands of the modern mind by BEDE GRIFFITHS IT IS A MATTER of no little interest that...
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Isaac Hecker's stress on personal freedom shocked European traditionalists The Paulist Apostolate by JOHN B. SHEERIN THE PAULIST FATHERS held their Centenary Dinner on October 27th at the...
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THE SHRINE AT GUADALUPE Pilgrimage to Mexico by, DOROTHY DAY I SPENT six months in Mexico back in 1929, most of the time in Mexico City and Xochimilco. The churches had just been reopened and...
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HERE AND THERE SEASON'S GREETINGS (With apologies to Frank Sullivan and the New Yorker) ON CHRISTMAS DAY, the good Lord willin' We'll drink a toast to Edward Skillin To Richard Horchler's kith...
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THE SCREEN LA JOIE DE VIVRE DE MA TANTE I HAVE BEEN in love with Rosalind Russell for so long it isn't funny, so anything I have to say about her new movie is more than a little prejudiced. I...
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OF NOTE ROLE OF THE LAITY IN A RECENT address to the Iowa Knights of Columbus, the Most Reverend Leo Binz, Archbishop of Dubuque, spoke on the "Role of the Laity in the Church." Substantial...
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Poems for Christmas THE SONG OF A STONE On this night When beast sings What am I Locked back In this dark To that light Beast is drawn Fear of fire Now dispersed By that star This...
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BOOKS The Condition of Man in Modern Thought IRRATIONAL MAN. By William Barrett. Doubleday. $5. By BERNARD G. MURCHLAND WHY EXISTENTIALISM, anyway? In this broad, yet remarkable study, Mr....
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