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...It David R. Carlin, Jr., assumes an advoca- lesbians and gay men is based on differis a shame that the recent statement by Pope cy role for conservative Catholics and ences of appearance or manner or on the John Paul II on the Galileo case fails to others morally opposed to lesbian and mere assumption that the other person is acknowledge the bad theology (endorsed ,gay sex...
...She never fails to make conservative Catholics and others where Faith, 1949, My Mission House: cover design, her point in a delightfully readable man- they think the sin begins...
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...manner in which the term "mysticism" gets dedicated celibacy...
...We are embarking on a major ex- or directed retreat, or a weekend for an inBosnia-Herzegovina...
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...Mysticism has become a "system" Anthony Lewis and other "liberal" com30: 7 May 1993 Commonweal mentators of being simplistic and nar- tremist ends...
...It is appalling, for in- KEVIN BUCKLEY latter fact may explain why this book (the stance, that mysticism often gets lumped first of a projected series cut short by his with New Age babble, tarot cards, etc., but untimely death) is so infuriatingly opaque one can understand why this should be The writer replies: and so given to an insider vocabulary...
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...Buckley's letter, however, gives me war confuses rather than clarifies what is a chance to stress a distinction that was happening...
...It marks a modest but aus- a long way in explaining the ambiguous a role for a chosen few who are called to picious beginning...
...pervasive" and 55th Anniversary, SUMMER SCHOOL responsibilities: development and staff OF SOCIAL ACTION, June 4-5, 1993, "neighbors of different faiths battle each support of local Advisory Boards...
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...She also cited, in her intro- lieu in which confidence in the traditionduction, line numbers for verses in the al structures of sacramentality, scriptural Middle English edition but, irritatingly, did piety, and the ecclesial role of the connot give corresponding citations for her templative (the older word for what we call CORRESPONDENCE own prose translation...
...is right: a dose of historical humility and Given the position of many religious In his column in the same issue firm purpose of amendment might truly groups, or their leaders, on this issue, it is ["Prejudice or Disagreement...
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...I recall, the most memorable was one erosexuals who are definitely secular in There is clearly a need for families that shown around Christmas time telling the their outlook...
...One can think of any older contemporary of Margery Kempe provocative work that repays the effort...
...My suspicion is by Pope Paul V in 1616) or the misuse of who see the "gay rights movement as part that the discrimination and harassment authority (ordered by Pope Urban VIII in and parcel of a secularist assault on reli- come not from the moral dimension but 1633) that produced a condemnation that gion" that may lead to the "eventual de- from other dynamics such as fear of one haunts the church to this day...
...But I show more clearly its political will not GERARD F. POWERS contend that there is most definitely a connection between gay rights ideology of incorporation...
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...Along with two other movements for testing, counseling, and medical serabortion rights and euthanasia-the gay vices...
...His work gives us a small window there is a momentous shift in European re- liant essay (in Mysticism and Religious into the contemporary popular piety of the ligious life in which mysticism becomes Traditions), the mystics were often not only time...
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