Correspondence:
MACHADO, LILLIAM & AUGER, (REV.) GEORGE & WOLFF, WILLIAM F. & HOWARD, JOHN W. & KORB, GEORGE M. & McTAGGART, BILL & Cuomo, Mario M. & Clark, Dennis & Berube, Maurice R.
Correspondence A reader tenderized Gretna, La. To the Editors: The article written by John Garvey, titled "Church Beyond Church" [Nov. 21], was outstanding. I am one of those Catholics that gets...
...Thank you for the article...
...Such an attitude is reflected in many a chancery...
...I am Catholic because I am...
...Thank you...
...I do not suggest the activists drop their prophetic role...
...Garvey spoke of is what is real to me...
...Bernard Cooke, in his review for the National Catholic Reporter, "felt that an almost strident negativity towards all things Roman marred a bit the otherwise notable objectivity of his (Kung's) approach...
...21] contains a message for every Catholic who has been frustrated in dealing with the institutional church...
...21], Jack Holland barely touched on the plight of young women caught in the English attempt to correct the ways of the Irish...
...21], says what many feel...
...And I too often wonder if the bishops have any awareness of the world most people face every day of their lives...
...Somehow the "little things" did not loom so big and the reality of love of God that unifies us did...
...To the Editors: John Garvey's article, "Church Beyond Church" [Nov...
...BILL McTAGGART An edge of sadness Springfield, 111...
...Twas a neat and sane article, Mr...
...It explains why I (and others) have remained Catholic even when disagreeing with certain positions in Rome...
...Garvey gets better with every outing...
...A dog, old and vicious, sat in London sucking the marrow from Irish bones...
...Nothing like that is likely to occur in the cases of Long Kesh and Armagh, but the Irish have faith that God will be a just judge...
...This restriction asserts British dominance but gives the lie to their claim that the degrading conditions are self-inflicted...
...REV...
...If they could borrow some of John Garvey's enduring faith and sense of humor, their vision might be tempered with a little more Christian charity...
...These unfortunate females are generally in poor health because of confinement and poor nutrition...
...The church will insist upon a gem-ladened monstrance and distance...
...To the Editors: I hope it is no "excessive dependency on texts and sources," that "subtler kind of plagiarism" of which Bernard Murchland warns us ["Ten Commandments for Teaching," Sept...
...GEORGE M. KORBB...
...21] recites the anguished details of the Northern Ireland prison struggle of starving men against state ferocity...
...In reporting the martyrdom of the Albanian Roman Catholic bishop who was battered to death for conducting a religious service in a prison camp, he cast blessed light on a basic value of our faith that transcends daily hassles with the structure...
...The lack of concern for the welfare of prisoners is illustrated by the limitation of two sanitary napkins a day...
...Their low resistance to infection may cause sterility or complications of the liver, bladder, and kidneys...
...To the Editors: John Garvey's excellent article "Church Beyond Church" [Nov...
...The appalling sanitary conditions that the prison authorities have allowed to develop by their own restrictions on Use of toilets and access to washing facilities are a special threat to menstruating women...
...I thought they were worth noting to those who enjoyed Abigail's piece, as I did...
...DENNIS CLARK Women prisoners Rensselaer, N.Y...
...It may go beyond that, but I do not know...
...The mystery of the church's life is indeed the "heartbreaking and terrifying tenderness" of a God who awaits our empty hands...
...MAURICE R. BERUBE Words for servants New York, N.Y...
...23], to suggest that our sense of tradition, to be healthy, must also be correct...
...21], expressed sentiments I have harbored these past three decades...
...The mistreatment of women is more brutal than that of men, if such is possible...
...The source is earlier Bernard of Chartres, and beyond him to Priscian's praise of the work of younger grammarians: "quanto sunt iuniores, tanto perspicaciores...
...I simply recommend a different focus that includes the eternal verities, even if they do not lend themselves to simplistic political statements...
...To the Editors: John Garvey's column, "Church Beyond Church" [Nov...
...Perhaps the answer should not be all mat hard to find...
...Being Catholic for me is most of the time, a very warm endearing feeling that is nourished by the sharing of the bread...
...The article had a tenderizing effect on me...
...While I agree with practically all their concerns, I find myself muttering "Oh, sit down and shut up...
...If "the mode of the apprehension of the (Continued on page 62) Correspondence (Continued from page 34) truth is precisely the truth," may I point out that the image of "dwarfs on the shoulders of giants" as original with John of Salisbury is precisely not the truth...
...GEORGE AUGER, C.S.V...
...A crow sat in Belfast picking the bones the dog had left...
...MARIO M. CUOMO Lieutenant Governor Strident negativity Park Forest, 111 To the Editors: Leonard Swidler's review of Hans Kiing's Does God Exist...
...I have been puzzled in the past by my exasperation with various activists as they shake their fingers in the pope's face or perform their public charades against injustice...
...5], I was struck by the appropriateness of some lines from Matthew that I keep under my glass desk top...
...It prompts an Irish parable...
...7] concludes with the grand question, "Why, oh why, does the Vatican attack him (Kung) now...
...To the Editors: In reading Abigail McCarthy's "Servant's Season" [Dec...
...This coming Sunday I will be much more aware of those around me, and the fact that they too are Catholic because they are...
...He says it well, though with an edge of sadness...
...GEORGE M. KORBave faith that God will be a just judge...
...And in any case, our list of Commandments must surely forbid the worship of false gods...
...The Catholic church is much more than just the sum of its parts...
...WILLIAM F. WOLFF Still older shoulders Chestnut Hill, Mu...
...Prison guards at Buchenwald and Dachau were tried and punished as war criminals for their violations of civilized behavior...
...It was life-giving to me...
...The terrifying tenderness" Mr...
...To the Editors: In "The Men on the Blanket" [Nov...
...The agony many experience is the church's failure to reflect genuinely and sincerely the poverty of our eucharistic Lord...
...Ch.20;26-28) "Anyone among you who aspires to greatness must serve the rest, and whoever wants to rank first among you must serve the needs of all...
...LILLIAM MACHADO The mystical dimension Logansport, Ind...
...this mystical dimension was symbolized by Bishop Coba's dedication to our sacramental tradition...
...Better all the time Virginia Beach Va...
...We stand more securely, I would think, if we know whose are the shoulders that support us...
...To the Editors: Jack Holland's "The Men on the Blanket" [Nov...
...Maggots waited in Dublin to see what would be their portion...
...I am one of those Catholics that gets rattled when the church comes out with pronouncements I judge to be out in left field somewhere...
...JOHN W. HOWARD Boston College An Irish parable Glenside, Pa...
Vol. 108 • January 1981 • No. 2
