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...Watergate was a political drama that transfixed the nation, slowly building to its denouement--the disgraced Richard Nixon's offering a stiff-armed salute from an airplane door...
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...In the effort to reclaim a better understanding of the Holy Spirit, there is a natural tendency to separate the three persons of the Trinity...
...That mysterious reality, whereby the Spirit, always understood within the unity of the Trinity, can be seen as both the object and the agent of faith--both author and engine of salvation history--is perhaps best captured in the Nicene Creed...
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...Four years and tens of millions of dollars have produced no indictment of Bill Clinton in the Whitewater case...
...Similarly, as Paul noted in Romans, when we pray, it is the Spirit praying in us...
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...Whitewater is to Watergate as farce is to tragedy...
...McDougall and Hubbell are crooks, but they have served their time and their crimes were peripheral to the primary investigation...
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...Meanwhile, the Republican Congress plays to its groundlings, releasing ineptly (perhaps fraudulently) edited transcripts of conversations taped while Hubbell was in prison...
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...The Spirit actively extends the koinonia (communion) of the church, drawing in outsiders (see Acts 10...
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...Every Sunday Catholics profess their belief in the Holy Spirit in words that both describe his nature and his worldly manifestations: "'We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and Son...
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...It is the Spirit--paradigmatically present in the revelation at Pentecost-who teaches us the meaning of Jesus...
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...Commonweal 5 May 22, 1998 Looking toward the next millennium, we should take stock of the Holy Spirit's presence in this otherwise most destructive of centuries...
...And in every age it is the saints who most graphically embody the action of the Spirit, helping us to see the trinitarian God renewing both church and world...
...To be sure, the concept of the Holy Spirit is inherently esoteric...
...Western art has traditionally depicted the third person of the Trinity in the form of Pentecostal fire or of a baptismal dove images based on the New Testament that do attest to the Spirit's power and freedom...
...But like all metaphors for God, these images are only approximations...
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...Today, we see the consequences of a system largely without procedures and men without restraint...
...The Spirit's "real presence" is both more ubiquitous and more elusive, for the Spirit is preeminently at work in the lives of God's people, in the communion of his church...
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...Nixon resigned rather than undergo trial...
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...Before his death, he managed to rehabilitate himself in some measure because the Constitution provided a process for an investigation and his political friends judiciously urged him from office, thus making the system whole again...
...In this regard, Walter Kasper, the German bishop and theologian, notes that while the Son appeared in human form and we can make at least a mental image of the Father, the Spirit is not so immediately "graphic...
...There being few limits on what Start can investigate means there are no limits to what partisans like Burton and Gingrich will try to do, and thus no limits to what Clinton will do in repulsing their attacks...
...Whitewater is a vaudeville show with clowns tumbling onto the stage for brief appearances...
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...Though the bloody details are missing, the analogy fits our current situation...
...As a consequence, the church committed itself to renewing the life of holiness: as manifest in its liturgy...
...it is farce verging on soap opera...
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...As Yves Congar insisted, Jesus the Incarnate Word cannot be separated from the Spirit...
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...The slow unraveling of his presidency was governed by constitutional procedures with a Congress and party system capable of restraint as evidence of his treachery accumulated...
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...His Republican colleagues pretend fury, and his committee's chief investigator is tossed off stage...
...Richard Nixon now seems a tragic character fatefully caught up in his own paranoia and machinations, ensnared in the traps he laid for others...
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...It is a theological commonplace to note that the Western church has failed in important ways to articulate or appreciate the power and person of the Holy Spirit...
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...We have farce instead of tragedy because no limits are imposed on the clowns...
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...Just as it is Jesus who shows us the Father, it is the Spirit who reveals Jesus to us--and vice versa--so that "it is possible to attribute the effects of grace to either one or the other...
...We look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come...
...With a grand jury sitting in Washington, the independent counsel now focuses on sexual scandal, perjury, and suborning witnesses, charges originally rising from the Paula Jones case, thrown out of court two months ago...
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...The church's subsequent encounters with Orthodoxy, with Judaism, and with mystical traditions, East and West, as well as the rich ferment within its own house from the competing insights of traditionalists, liberationists, feminists, and charismatics, all attest to the Spirit's presence...
...Robert Ellsberg's recent study, All Saints (Crossroad), eloquently shows how varied, vital, and challenging their lives are, and how God addresses us through them...
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...Jesus ascends to the right hand of the Father precisely to send the Spirit, without whose intervention we cannot understand who Jesus is...
...Spiritus is Latin for ruah, "breath" in Hebrew: "The breath of his mouth put all things in place"--Wisdom 32:6...
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...Clearly, Vatican II stands out as a striking manifestation of the Spirit at work...
...Too often the Spirit has simply been taken for granted, the forgotten member of the Trinity, relegated in practical theology and worship to third place in a hierarchy of divine being...
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...In the liturgy, it is the power of the Spirit that transforms the bread and wine and thus the community...
...Independent counsel Kenneth Starr closed his investigation before the Little Rock grand jury by hauling back Susan McDougaI1, in shackles and prison garb, and by indicting, for the second time, Webster Hubbell, this time along with his wife, his accountant, and his lawyer...
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...when called to account for this selective editing, gets even and releases all the tapes...
...The appearance of McDougall and the indictment of Hubbell produced nothing, except perhaps an implicit threat to the yet-to-be-indicted Monica Lewinsky...
...THROW OUT THE CLOWNS "The first time as tragedy, the second as farce," so said Karl Marx contrasting Napoleon's 1799 seizure of power in France to that of Louis Bonaparte in 1851...
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...While the council's documents refer to tile Spirit more than 250 times, more remarkable still was the council's tenor of openness and hope...
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