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CORRESPONDENCE Speliman and Murray New York, N.Y. To the Editors: We are indebted to Donald E. Pelotte, S.S.S., for his John Courtney Murray: Theologian in Conflict and to Philip Scharper...
...I have no quibble with her citation of the Hart survey which, she points out, found large numbers of citizens not just failing to vote but "choosing not to vote...
...Unfortunately, one is often more conscious of Moclder as narrator, constantly speaking for Francis, than one is conscious of a sense of Francis...
...To the Editors: We are indebted to Donald E. Pelotte, S.S.S., for his John Courtney Murray: Theologian in Conflict and to Philip Scharper for his fine review [Mar...
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...Mockler's scholarship is thorough, and his style is engaging...
...Bishops' petition to the Holy Father who ordered Ottaviani to consider the religious liberty issue...
...It is an interesting political and sociological question, and an important one for our nation...
...Modern-day Franoiscans may take issue with his observations on their Order...
...To the Editors: Abigail McCarthy writes interestingly and with concern-which I, of course, share--about the problem of the non-v.oter in our democracy [Feb...
...Hart--and myself, for that matter --have all been around politics long enough to understand that an issue which activates citizens, or a candidate who motivates them, can emerge to renew interest in those who've lost it and quicken it among those who haven't...
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...So do I. But when we find the key to that one, I'll settle for laws that guarantee substantially increased voter participation_~s national on' site election day registration will, as demonstrated by the Minnesota and Wisconsin experiences...
...In dealing with Murray's conflict with Ottaviani and Fenton, the review mentions the lack of strong support that left Murray an "isolate" figure...
...But this debate is best left to the Franciscan reader...
...In several footnotes, Mockler speaks of the "rather shocking contrast" between conventional modern thought on certain issues and Francis's basically simple message...
...0 | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 JESUS TODAY Every generation, since the child himself grew up in Nazareth, has had a Jesus of its own...
...Moreover, it seems to me the number would grow impressively as time passed and the hab/t became entrenched...
...McCarthy, it is that the Hart poll--Commonweal welcomes letters on subjects treated in its pages...
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...Not good, but certainly far better than she suggests...
...Indeed, the same poll, taken a couple or three years from now, could turn up more encouraging findings...
...Indeed, the gospels tell us that even in his own lifetime and among his family and followers he was a most misunderstood young man...
...But I would not want to get hung up on it at the cost of proceeding meantime toward a law to make voting as easy as possible through a national law permitting citizens to register at the polling sites on election day...
...With 54.4 percent of all eligibles voting, the ratio is less than one non-voter for every voter...
...HARRY J. BYRNE Voter Apathy Washington, D.C...
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...BAglSAI~A MUTgOSKI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CORRESPONDENCE (Continued/rom page 227) some citizens would still refrain from voting if we were to trundle the booth directly into their homes and offer to pull the levers for them...
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...For us he remains all the more illusive because the gospels do not give us, according to any modern understanding of what history is, the story of his life...
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...The entire and basic issue," declar.ed New York Justice John L. Leahy, in throwing the Queens indictments out of court, "is whether or not . . . the defendants will be allowed to practice the religion of their choice--and this must b c -ansWered with a resounding affm~atire...
...Already, by the time the New Testament was completed, the Jesus of Faith had undergone several transformations from the Jesus of Nazareth who first stood up in the synagogue and applied to himself the prophecy of Isaiahm"The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has appointed me to bring good news to the poor" i n t o the philosophical Jesus whom the Gospel of John has say at the Last Supper, "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life...
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...I daresay any such poll at any time since universal suffrage would have turned up a significant percentage feeling this way, though perhaps it is higher now...
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...The review might well have mentioned, as the book does, the strong support Murray received from Cardinal Spellman who was responsible for Murray's being invited to Vatican II as a "peritus" and who, when the religious liberty issue was dropped from the agenda, sent a letter in the name of the American bishops, to Cardinal Cicognani, the President of the Council, insisting that the issue be restored to the agenda...
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...Thus, a clear "image" for Jesus was impossible from the moment he first opened his mouth...
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...Meanwhile, contemporary theologians might stress that if we really take the humanity of Jesus Commonweal: 227 phers treat as simply one more incident in Francis's life...
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...Murray may have been an "isolate" figure in some sense but his wisdom and civility gave him a remarkable relationship with his country's ethos and with his Church...
...Letters of not more than 250 or 300 words naturally have a better chance o] being published...
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...And then to a later understanding of these moments that enabled the early Church Councils to declare, in answer to specific challenges and heresies, that the man who said these things was both "God and man...
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...They are, rather, four sometimes contradictory interpretations of his life, in some passages already filtered through the memories of several generations, rewritten and edited to solve the practical problems of communities all over the Mediterranean, and directed to different audiences of Jews, Romans and Greeks...
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...This is done in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and the fact that large numbers of voters in these states showed up election day 1976 and registered and v~ted on the spot argues that such national law would si~niflcantly increase voting participation...
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