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CORRESPONDENCE If R.I., why not Ala.? Auburn, Ala. To the Editors: Congratulations to David R. Carlin, Jr., and to the 300 Commonweal subscribers who propelled him to victory in the...
...Sadly, this situation, along with a number of other positions taken by our leaders (e.g., recent statements limiting ecumenism...
...At first the experience was encouraging, then depressing, and then I mostly forgot about it...until Bishop Murphy's article appeared...
...Illustrations: cover, pp...
...In the meetings that were held to discuss the bishops' pastoral letter on women, I told him...
...Millions of us have learned that it can be far more essential to the husband/wife bond--the bond Paul compared to Jesus' relationship with his church...
...Vatican officials, according to the article, have asserted that bishops are teachers not learners...
...To the Editors: Congratulations to David R. Carlin, Jr., and to the 300 Commonweal subscribers who propelled him to victory in the congressional primaries ["Et Cetera," October 9...
...CURRAN From the editors: Answers: (A) 39...
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...during the year 1993...
...Yet we passively go our way when we should accept our rightful roles and take action...
...p. 40, Chariot...
...8, 20, 34, Valerry...
...I exalted not sex, but marital bonding...
...I espoused an understanding of how marital sex functions to bond the couple through emotional closeness...
...MARILYNM . KRAMER Send for the texts Chicago, I11...
...To the Editors: Sipe and Lamb continue to lie about me [Correspondence, September 25...
...and at additional offices...
...and without us it does not exist...
...An interpretation held in good faith by "millions of Catholics" based on what each has learned individually is hardly just a personal interpretation...
...A. was ready to deal with artists dealing honestly with a world of difference...
...I couldn't find any such expressions or arguments...
...only a fool equates quantity with quality (nor does quantity preclude quality either...
...and harassment of theologians who follow their consciences), have led many lay people to take the position of Dr...
...dollars by International Money Order or by check on a U.S...
...Canada, $66...
...I am not a woman on the fringe...
...Humanae "I must warn you, he's extremely volatile...
...I wish this passage would appear in every issue of every diocesan newspaper in the U.S...
...We have been cowed to a degree of submission we would not Write your bishop Danbury, Conn...
...All Canadian and foreign subscriptions must be paid in U.S...
...He suggests going to another church, which is better than dropping out...
...I tried to find where I had exalted individual freedom, or sexual indulgence, or personal interpretation...
...I ac(Continued on page 43) Commonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, Index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review Digest and Book Review Index...
...Walzer in his letter to you [September 25...
...and I have tried to follow in the faith of my Irish ancestors...
...I tried to convey that sexual union within a marital commitment, supported by mutual loving, becomes much more than merely one way among many to express love, or merely an indulgence in sexual pleasure...
...36, 46, Schwadron, Rothco...
...p. 2, Matt, Rothco...
...But why is that all there is...
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...p. 26, Franke Keating...
...11, 13, 15, Emil Antonucci...
...This pastoral is (another) big mistake by our church leadership...
...The New Testament tells me that my friend Jesus is much more a fringe figure than I. PATRICIA S. SKINNER and the letter would not coincide at all with current thinking in this country...
...At a certain point (which has surely been reached with respect to birth regulation), it becomes the sensus fidelium...
...Let me repeat it here: I want to affirm the influence and enrichment brought to my own learning and to my growth as a person and as a bishop by feminist scholars and many deeply committed and gifted women...
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...I also express profound sorrow for my own failures in communication, language, and relationships with women co-workers and friends...
...I tell you what: If readers should be interested in whether Sipe and Lamb are indeed tearing words out of context--and thus raping my soul--they should write to me at NORC, the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (60637) and I'll send them copies of the PW article and the pertinent pages of my autobiography...
...denial of tights for homosexuals...
...Only men who only teach and do not learn could make such a silly, sad statement...
...T.M...
...Perhaps that explains why the Administrative Council of the National Council of Catholic Bishops said, "We are hearing only from women on the fringe...
...married to a Catholic...
...vitae says that is all there is...
...B) Of course...
...It was the first time in sixty years a bishop had asked me what I thought about my place in the church...
...His complaint, "Repeatedly, homely women are mocked in this movie," is so far off base (not least because it seems to synonymize "mocked" and "raped"), that one wonders if Mr...
...MSGR...
...Out of his league Barre, Mass...
...To the Editors: After reading William Talbot's letter ["An immeasurable gulf," Correspondence, October 9], I reread my own letter [Correspondence, June 19] with which he expressed disagreement...
...Like him, I see Catholics leaving quietly, leaving embittered, or practicing faith ~ la carte...
...30, 32, Ross, Rothco...
...To the Editors: Your editorial and the wellthoughtout article by Bishop Murphy covered the new draft pastoral on women well...
...ANDREW GREELEY He l i k e d it Fort Carson, Colo...
...Why do the vast majority let the minority in positions of power drive our church apart and ourselves out of it...
...Canada, $39...
...JAMES SULLIVAN What I r e a l l y s a i d Lake Tomahawk, Wis...
...2:6 November 1992 Commonweal CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 2) cepted promptly...
...The Mystical Body is all of us...
...Serials Data program No.: ISSN 00103330...
...My denial ought to be enough...
...I have been a Catholic for sixty-four years...
...the hierarchy's response to sexual misconduct by clergy...
...1, 1924, to current issues available through University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, M148106 and on Microfiche from Bell & Howell, Wooster, Ohio 44691...
...To the Editors: A million wildly enthusiastic cheers for Bishop P. Francis Murphy...
...Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y...
...Talbot's interpretation of my letter is a classic example of the difficulty of communicating when the gulf in understanding is not only immeasurable but unbridgeable...
...ROBERT J. ENNIS The question came l a t e Des Moines, Iowa To the Editors: It was the first invitation I had ever received from a bishop...
...His "Let's Start Over" [September 25] is abolutely the best I've ever read on women' s concerns...
...Yearly subscriptions, U.S., $36...
...Thank you, Bishop, for the first paragraph of your conclusion...
...educated in the Catholic school system for thirteen years...
...The process has been trampled on by the Vatican...
...To the Editors: As a sixty-four-year-old connoisseur of both women and baseball, I felt Richard Alleva was a tad harsh in his condemnation of the action sequences in A League of Their Own [September 11 ] and possibly too unappreciative of the verisimilitude of a picture that beautifully bridges the gap of a half-century during which a lot of values, including family ones, have got ironed out under the steamroller of economic progress and retreat...
...foreign, $4 I. Special two-year rate: U.S...
...28, 44, Baloo, Rothco...
...To repeat: I do NOT believe that either money or sales vindicate an author and his work...
...p. 5, N. Ford, Rothco...
...I should be given the courtesy of knowing what I believe better than Sipe and Lamb know what I believe...
...It is our church...
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...the many archaic rulings on sexual practice and marriage...
...I and the lady with whom I saw the film had no trouble doing that...
...foreign, $72...
...Now could you tell us how many Commonweal subscribers we have in Alabama and whether you think it would be enough to field a candidate...
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