Editorials
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...In sal for West Bank autonomy that, in the words of the London the game of self-interest, the vacationing middle class and the Economist, concedes "rather less than the powers of a British oil companies are sure to be out front, not those trapped in borough council" and "still resists anything that anybody else freezing tenements...
...Liberal Catholicism, in its 19th and 20th will bear a large part of the blame, but so will a city that century versions, existed in a state of tension between the clamors for leadership, but refuses to be led...
...But this particular form of "linkage" is also dangerous...
...recognize Israel...
...He wept (as he often did), rejoicing, and But Carter has not done well with the second Washington, a went on with what he had to do...
...On its part, the U.S...
...It is to 31 August 1979: 453...
...It sought to reverse the popular Catholic distrust of (Jim Castelli is the Capitol Hill reporter and columnist for many liberal values, to gain a wider, deeper acceptance among NC News Service...
...missal (and now, like so many Ether profound and beautiful How dated this may now sound, a quarter century later...
...relativism or secularism...
...moment is characterized by intense distrust between Israel and If our foreign policy is going to be auctioned off for oil, then Washington...
...ambivalence-I think Califano was a great secretary and I He felt at once-and all together-the splendor and the wonthink he made his firing inevitable by acting as though he was der and the joy of life: the pathos of its passing and the glory not accountable to anyone...
...Who made the One poll taken after the Cabinet shake-up found that Ameri- church weep made him weep...
...But to all who, multiply his mercy upon us, so that with him for our ruler and with any intellectual honesty, contine to call themselves guide, we may so pass through the good things of time that we Catholic, there were, are, and always will be Essentials...
...John Wright's love affirm this proposition, to fight for it when many seem to think of these words, and his reaction to them on a morning early in that the history of dogma, liturgy, and the church itself began his priesthood, tell us much about this brilliant, complex, around 1966, is not to have become "conservative...
...turn inward among Jews, a withdrawal from social activism in Despite his dismal approval rating, Carter is stronger than the larger community-no more so, it should be added, than, most people suppose...
...But that's not as inconsistent as it seems when you has always been how to assure Palestinian rights without realize that there are really two Washingtons...
...would call self-rule for the Palestinians...
...Ambassador, Tightly cost him his job...
...anyone reading the Washing- French, English and American liberal Catholism, the tradition ton papers would have expected the margin to be 98-1...
...Editor: James O'Gara That was why Andrew Young had to resign-not because he was black, not Executive Editor: Peter Steinfels because he angered some American Jews, not even because he advocated a "softer" Editorial Assistant: Anne Robertson line toward the PLO...
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...where congressmen whose Catholic, apostolic, and, of course, Roman...
...Catholics for the ideals of democracy, political and cultural pluralism, social and economic justice, intellectual freedom and diversity...
...Special two-year rate: matter is the denial of recognition for the PLO in the absence of its refusal to $35...
...foreign, $22...
...In 1952 I wrote an article in Commonweal called "The Liberal Catholic...
...Both the Jews and the blacks represent compelling moral claims in their respective histories of A WORD FOR CARTER oppression-claims both against and for the civilization that NOT ONE BUT TWO WASHINGTONS produced black slavery, the Holocaust and the ideal of equal justice under law...
...most of its oil resources even if the Israeli-Palestinian dispute At a different moment, the Young initiative might well have disappeared tomorrow...
...Jewish leaders have felt compelled to take a strongly negative But looking back at Carter's record in July, it seems that his position on affirmative action programs...
...An official representative of any nation cannot conduct an independent foreign policy-and, worse, misrepresent to the public and his superiors the fact that Books he is doing so...
...To advance PLO's claims on the The first Washington is the place where they send out the grounds of assuring heating fuel for America's black poor is Social Security checks, design consumer co-op banks and Commonweal: 452 welfare plans and ban the use of amphetamines as diet pills...
...and case, not to let the Israelis know of this interpretation of our pledge...
...He loved his friends...
...This is not some passing matter of a potential disruption in the coalition of ethnic groups that is After the Cabinet shake-up crucial to the Democratic party and Mr...
...The White House seems to have glorious things of the world to come...
...where a man's voice is else, as he confessed, he loved the church-one, holy, more important than what he says...
...Young can make a good case for the policy Advertising Manager Ruth E. Taylor that, putsued as U.S...
...To express a concern for Palestinian obviously doing-after being president for two-and-a-half human rights is beyond reproach: the problem in the Mideast years...
...If peace is ever to emerge in the Middle East, it will be built on pledges like that one, and to treat them lightly, or as subject to unilateral revision, is to throw away one's shoes at the Staff beginning of a long journey...
...470 Andrew Young included, agreed that the attractive and outspoken Ambassador had Dance: Don McDonagh 471 to go...
...Jewish organizations and fragmentation doesn't make them go away...
...Young's secret dealings, then it surely shows heart of the Mideast conflict...
...has made several hasty gestures-the amendment of Resolu- express his sorrow at Andrew Young's resignation...
...Telephone: carried out, involve high American officials, though it would be folly, as in this (212) MU 3-2042...
...Young's tion and recrimination...
...Second, the State Department should tives have a plausible link to Saudi Arabia's increased outflow clarify its interpretation of our pledge to Israel, insisting on of oil make the Israelis very worried-and correspondingly both a degree of contact with the PLO and a refusal to recogintransigent...
...Contents Volume CVI, Number 15 Commonweal Correspondence 450 Editorials 451 Sacerdos et pontifex: William Clancy 453 The newing of America: Abigail McCarthy 454 The bombing of Haig: Frank Getlein 455 The new political rhetoric: J. Patrick Dobel 457 AFTER 'What d'ya mean...
...Here, he better than his first...
...the immense ground that unites them is fogged over by frustraThis brings us to another tragic aspect of Mr...
...endangering those of Israelis...
...prevailing Catholic ethos and the values of the "modern" JIM CASTELLI world...
...to do with black recriminations than Middle Eastern politics...
...agreements are at the heart of any healthy foreign policy...
...It is even plausible that gust, by Commonweal Publishing Co., 232 Madi- such contacts, depending on their substance and the discretion with which they are son Ave., New York, N.Y...
...We're not Irish!': Jack Holland 459 ANDREW YOUNG Parents, children & the Supreme Court: Maurice DeG...
...Unfortunately, this poor...
...If, as reported, they played the key hand in nize it or enter into substantial negotiation on the issues at the exposing Mr...
...Begin's auYoung affair will be the PLO itself, which has suddenly passed tonomy proposal and America's unwillingness to barter Isfrom an organization most Americans associate only with rael's security for relief at the gas lines...
...things, lost or strangely altered in the new missal) beseeched "The essentials of the Faith" are not as clear as they seemed God, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy, to then...
...beyond the passing...
...Whether wisely or not, the United States made a pledge to Israel "not to The Little League Game: Michael Crosby 475 recognize or negotiate with the Palestine Liberation Organization" until the PLO Womanpriest: Frapcine Cardman 476 recognized Israel's right to exist...
...To do not lose those things which are eternal...
...OPEC would make the tinians and Israelis...
...He loved because he didn't like what he was served at a White House ideas and conversation, good food and good wine...
...Modification: Steven Kroll 474 Nor was the matter, as some people have mistakenly said, a mere question of protocol...
...Over the years most leaders in both the Jewish and black communities have seen their moral claims as E VEN AFTER his domestic summit at Camp David, his parallel if not identical...
...Third, Washington should make their mood of imprudent desperation...
...That they should be seen as set against energy sermon and his Cabinet shake-up, Jimmy Carter one another, even (or especially) in some vague, general remains in severe political trouble...
...the pledge was made as part of the agreement Weasel Words: Robert L. King 477 leading to Israel's 1975 withdrawal from a section of the Sinai...
...This revaldation," I wrote, "demands no sacrifice of when he first prayed it at Mass in Rome soon after his ordina- whatever is essential to the Faith...
...Certainly, for most, they are not as many...
...The connection is spurious, in the informal or formal recognition of the PLO at this time would first place...
...and OPEC will not concede more to passed as the sort of flexibility, far short of recognition, that the American poor than it has done to the Indian or Brazilian our pledge to Israel might encompass...
...He plined...
...cans believe Carter's Georgian advisers have too narrow a John Wright was a liberal Catholic in the tradition of perspective by a 44-42 margin...
...Carter's firing of Joe Califano at HEW did not go prayed the Collect in an ancient Roman chapel, and as he down well with many liberals...
...Perhaps the most serious charge being made against Carter On the other hand, black leaders have voiced a number of is that he cannot credibly run against Washington-as he is disconcerting themes...
...Foreign offices do pursue policies in private The Making of the Popes 1978/The Year that they reject in public, and those who know the full complexity and ironies of of Three Popes: Richard McBrien 472 peacemaking are not apt to condemn such dissimulation in every case...
...It is a fragmentation of moral symbolism that can only wreak havoc on our national life...
...but because the accountability of diplomats and a respect for Movies: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...realized the importance of rewarding its friends and punishing I can hear his wonderful voice, recalling the Collect and the its enemies after spending too long doing the reverse...
...Carter's future...
...where loyalty is a bad word...
...seemed to wound) the church wounded him...
...it fought, and indeed abhorred, the authoritarian methods and mentalities which continued, until Vatican II John Cardinal Wright at least, to earn the church its reputation as a Monolith...
...surprised...
...Poetry: John Fandel Staff: Karen F. Silva, Harriette Balsky, This does not, however, settle the debate about American policy toward the Jacqueline Reeves Palestinians...
...he should tion 242, for example-that not even President Sadat, let alone state firmly why it was the inevitable outcome of an accountathe Israeli government, approves...
...Of course, it may be the case that Young's initiatives with the PLO weren't really so independent after all...
...unforgettable man: intellectual, humanist, raconteur, friend, Carter has not done badly with this Washington, and there are churchman, lover of the good things of this world and the signs he will do even better...
...of Lacordaire, Dupanloup, Blondel and Maritain, Newman Carter must find a way to run against the second Washington and Acton, Orestes Brownson, Archbishop Ireland and Comwhile showing he can master the first...
...The heart of the Canada, $20...
...This damage can be limited only if we clearly assess what was Sister Ellen Murphy 461 involved in the Young affair- including its bitter aftermath of increased tension between American blacks and Jews...
...Who wounded (or by what it will do for "me...
...The only winner in the absolutely clear both its dissatisfaction with Mr...
...ut non amittamus aeterna...
...In and through all of this, liberal Catholicism prided SACERDOS ET PONTIFEX itself on its fidelity to basic Catholic doctrines, on its love for THERE WILL ALWAYS BE ESSENTIALS and loyalty to the church...
...He shouldn't be sense, will be terribly destructive...
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...At the same time, liberal Catholicism opposed the dogmatic secularism and moral relativism that characterized much liberal thought...
...If he fails politically, he monweal itself...
...Mass: "Think of the meaning of these words, Sic transeamus At the same time, Carter's new Cabinet is in some ways per bona temporalia...
...Television:' Philip Terzian 469 Some have insisted, some have conceded, but in the end almost everyone, Screen: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...As a private citizen Mr...
...The church was strings are pulled by their Legislative Assistants pontificate the sign of those things which are eternal, set down among the about Hamilton Jordan's power, where everything is measured good things, and the bad things, that pass...
...know that Israel knows, and that everyone involved recognizes Commonweal, A Review of Public Affairs, Literathe advantage of at least some lines of communication with the PLO which, in the ture and the Arts, is published biweekly, except monthly Christmas-New Year's and July and Au- nature of things, will amount to a species of "negotiating...
...In the case of Decadence: Arthur A. Cohen 473 embarrassing revelations, such tactics demand a "fall guy," however, and if this Sex Life/The Martini-Henry was the game Young was playing, he knew the possible price ahead of time...
...place where a congressman will vote against a president's bill John Wright loved the world...
...What next...
...it implies no surrender to tion...
...Rather, it emphasizes the church's This Collect for the Third Sunday after Pentecost in the old genius for eternal renewal...
...A Washington Post poll taken at the end has marked the nation at large but perhaps mork noticeable in of July found that more than 60 percent of the American people the case of the traditionally most liberal and most socially believe Carter is doing as well as or better than most presidents active group in American society...
...The Begin government has put forward a propo- moral claims go by the board, including those of the poor...
...it is certainly better organized and disci- said, the secret of Christian humanism was revealed to him...
...I share Carter's own prayed the sun streamed upon the marble altar where he stood...
...Ford 462 Motherhood & mythology: THE RESIGNATION of Andrew Young as Ambassador to the United Nations Anna Maria Murdoch 466 promises to leave lasting wounds on America's domestic and international Verse: Richard A. Hawley, politics...
...The nearly intractable conflicts of the Mideast will not be resolved 31 August 1979: 451 except by moderates on all sides, and to drift into either another matter, however...
...First, President Carter should do more than...
...And as Rabbi Balfour only real mistake was announcing his Cabinet changes after his Brickner recently wrote, there seems to have been a distinct dramatic July 15 speech instead of during it...
...The fact that these initia- ble foreign policy...
...Above allbreakfast...
...The facts are that the Publisher: Edward S. Skillin United States has had a good number of contacts with the PLO, that Israel knows this, that the U.S...
...All this probably has more would do in handling energy and the economy...
...foreign, $39...
...Fourth, Jewish and cruel attacks on noncombatants to one that a number of out- black- leaders should open a thorough-going dialogue before standing Americans want to talk to...
...OPEC's policy derives from the Gospel according sigd the death warrant for moderation, both among Pales- to Adam Smith and not from the PLO...
...just describing the nation's malaise and political The problem is complicated...
...Yearly subscriptions, U.S...
...The stakes could not be higher...
...resignation: the rift it has apparently widened between blacks and Jews in America...
...In it I said that we liberal Catholics asked a JOHN JOSEPH WRIGHT, Bishop, Cardinal of the Holy Roman radical revaluation among many of our fellow Catholics of church, who died in Boston on August 10, once told me their basic attitudes (mostly illiberal) towards the modern about a Collect he especially loved, and about his feelings world...
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